British High Commission Senior Trade Promotion Officer Kenya Jobs

This is a great opportunity to work in an exciting and challenging environment on a high profile agenda within the Department for International Trade, part of the British High Commission in Nairobi.

The officer will be a confident self-starter, a team player with excellent communication skills, and the ability to network with a wide range of contacts at senior levels in Government and the private sector.

They will be credible when talking to business and

Integrating with the DIT Africa region is a must: we are a regionalised and networked organisation, delivering to an ambitious Africa Trade Plan as well as through the High Commission and this needs to be carefully balanced.

They will be responsible for delivering to a challenging set of objectives reflecting support to successful UK commercial outcomes in the sectors of responsibility, as well as for guiding a dynamic and diverse virtual team aiming to achieve commercial goals in renewables in the region.

The team also contributes to Her Majesty’s Government’s work on the Prosperity agenda; as part of ‘One Government,’ we need to work very closely with our Foreign Office and Development colleagues to balance various UK interests in this area, and take full advantage of the opportunities of a cross-Government approach.

As the senior trade promotion lead at DIT Kenya, this will be a particularly important part of the role.

The Prosperity/Economic Development part of the High Commission is likely to receive a significant personnel boost in the coming year, building on recent changes such as the addition of a Trade Policy capability. As a result of these changes, this could mean future changes to the job specification.

The Department for International Trade:

The Department for International Trade (formerly referred to as UK Trade & Investment, or UKTI) is the British Government Department responsible for promoting British trade across the world and ensuring the UK takes advantage of the huge opportunities open to us.

We are responsible for:

The DIT team in Kenya is charged with trade development between the UK and Kenya, in particular UK exports and outward investment to Kenya. We are also responsible for UK Export Finance, the UK Government’s export credit agency.