Finance Officer

The COMESA Secretariat has applied for financing from the African Development Bank toward the cost of the Regional Capacity Building Project Against Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML) and intends to apply part of the agreed amount for this grant to payments under the contract for recruitment of a Project Finance Officer. 

The services included under this project include overseeing and coordinating the finance activities of the project to ensure the highest level of project quality and accountability. He/she will support the project and COMESA by assuming full responsibility for the overall financial management of the Project including ensuring project accounting, and fiduciary oversight at project level. In addition, he/she will ensure that, the Project complies with the Bank’s financial procedures and processes. and other duties as detailed in the terms of reference, throughout the project duration.

The duration of the assignment is 3 years.

COMESA Secretariat now invites eligible individual consultants to indicate their interest in providing these services. Interested Individual consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (Curriculum Vitae (CVs), description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, etc.).

Eligibility criteria, establishment of the short-list and the selection procedure shall be in accordance with the African Development Bank’s “Procurement Framework for Bank Group Funded Operations” dated 2015, which is available on the Bank’s website at: https://www.afdb.org/en/projects-and-operations/procurement/new-procurement-policy .

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Individual Consultant Selection method set out in the Procurement Policy.

Interested consultants may obtain further information and detailed Terms of Reference at the address below during office hours from 08:00 to 17:00 Central Africa Time (CAT).

Interested consultants may send their inquiries during office hours, from 08:00 to 17:00 Central Africa Time (CAT).

Expressions of interest must be delivered to the address below by Monday 13^th July 2026 at 16:00hrs Central Africa Time and with subject “COMESA Capacity Building Project Against TBML – Finance Officer”.

Attn:

Mr. Silver Mwesigwa
Head of Procurement
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Ben Bella Road
P O Box 30051
Lusaka, Zambia
Tel: 260 211 229725–32
E-mail – procurement@comesa.int ,
copying smwesigwa@comesa.int  and kmzumara@comesa.int  .

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