Senior Associate

Nextrade Group • Full-time • Remote (US) • $70k - $110k / year • 2m ago

Nextrade Group is a woman-owned data and analytics company that helps governments, multilateral development banks, and Fortune 500s to enable international trade through technology. We have been hired by more than 50 clients, most of them repeat, to ideate, architect, and build policy-relevant data products, analytics, and business solutions to accelerate the use of ecommerce, blockchain, and artificial intelligence in the global trade ecosystem.

Our clients and we fundamentally believe in the power of trade and technologies to accelerate economic growth and raise incomes around the world.

We work with our clients to promote ecommerce development; digitization of ports, customs, and free trade zones; and digital and trade policies to expand opportunities and efficiencies in world trade on more than 100 markets around the world.

Nextrade is known to be in the “Next”— deliver to our clients groundbreaking ideas and new strategic partnerships that help clients create entirely new lines of business and services to their own clients.

Nextrade has conceptualized and built groundbreaking data and analytical products, strategies, policy and technology pilots to accelerate the use of technology in trade. We have also created and built eight global initiatives and public-private partnerships with leading companies, international institutions, and governments to accelerate digitization, most recently and USAID’s first PPP in ecommerce development, Alliance for eTrade Development with 15 leading global technology companies, and the Prosper Africa Tech for Trade Alliance with 20 companies.

Nextrade is currently seeking a dynamic senior associate to support our Directors in our public sector work, such as the eTrade Alliance, Africa Tech for Trade Alliance, and USAID projects in Central America and Mexico.

The position is remote and involves travel.

The position can be Manager-level, depending on experience.

The tasks include:

Manage specific projects and workstreams in selected projects in Africa and Latin America, including coordination with private sector partners, ensuring compliance with USAID requirements, and reporting on results and impact.
Develop and operationalize private sector-led projects in the eTrade Alliance and Africa Tech for Trade Alliance, leading co-creations with private sector partners and managing projects to completion.
Work on ecommerce strategies and export promotion through ecommerce in various sectors in Mexico and Central America, including contribute to research, partner identification and outreach, development of national and regional strategies, and activity management.
Organize policy events and technical workshops, leading convening with public and private sector leaders in various countries on topics relevant to ecommerce, trade, and digital transformation of MSMEs
Support Nextrade Group research with our more than 50 public and private sector clients.
Select and coordinate interns on occasion

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree, Master’s preferred

Strong management experience with USAID and donor-funded projects and programming; understanding about USAID compliance
At least 5 years in operational and management experience in some combination of international development, trade, technology sector, and public-private partnerships
Highly accountable and reliable self-starter with a sense of urgency
Strong technical understanding of international trade, trade facilitation, digital technologies and client agendas in these areas
Excellent communication and coordination skills
Empathetic consensus-builder, with patient and courteous demeanor
“Workhorse” executing with excellence for its own sake
Growth mindset to create great things from nothing and make the pie bigger for everyone
“No job too simple or small”-attitude – this is essential in a small business where you will have to wear many hats and dig deep
Desire to grow a small business with big clients
Native written and spoken English, native or highly proficient written and spoken Spanish
Outstanding references