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USAID “Visit Tunisia” Tourism Development Project

USAID/Tunisia intends to implement the “Visit Tunisia” tourism development project to enhance Tunisia’s tourism potential, with the goal of generating revenue and jobs, particularly for women, youth and populations in underserved regions of the country.

The overall vision behind USAID’s investment in Tunisia’s tourism sector is to capitalize on the country’s cultural and historical endowments to develop a diversified and high-quality sector that contributes to a greater extent to broad-based economic growth in Tunisia.

Duration, Size and Anticipated Timeframe

• Project duration: 5 years Anticipated Budget: $35-38 million
• Anticipated Start: January 2021

Project Objectives

• Enhance Tunisia’s competitiveness as a tourism destination
• Increase tourism-related investments and revenue
• Improve enabling environment for sustained tourism sector growth
• Engage private sector in expanding offer and quality of tourism services

Chemonics’ Tourism Experience

Chemonics has worked with governments and the private sector across four continents to implement more than 55 large-scale tourism projects.

Our experience includes UNESCO World Heritage site conservation and management, national and regional tourism policy planning and regulation, master planning, destination branding and positioning, international tourism promotion, and workforce development in diverse destinations requiring specially-tailored solutions such as the Dominican Republic, Egypt, East Timor, Georgia, Jordan,
Lebanon, Moldova, Morocco, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.

DESTINATION COMPETITIVENESS TEAM LEAD

Role and Responsibilities

• The Destination Competitiveness Team Lead will be a senior manager who leads the destination competitiveness team and portfolio to advance Tunisia as a competitive tourism destination, including legal and fiscal policy reform, enterprise development, investment promotion, institutional capacity building, and access to finance and destination sustainability.
• Under his/her leadership, the team will build capacity of key public and private institutions and counterparts, private sector associations, and will strengthen the public policy framework for tourism growth.
• The team lead will lead the design of business growth strategies and an intervention plan while actively championing environmentally and socially responsible business practices, a forward-looking national tourism strategy and enhanced sector regulations. This includes developing a national tourism strategy and advancing Tunisia on the World Economic Forum indicator index.
• Additionally, the Destination Competitiveness Team Lead will lead activities supporting small businesses in terms of capacity and improved access to finance and promote best environmental management practices.
• The team lead will provide overall component-related technical and managerial guidance, local subcontracting, and management of grants that may be made to beneficiary organizations.
• As part of the senior project management team, lead the development and implementation of strategies and work plans to achieve component’s objectives; monitor implementation, develop and introduce changes to the work plan according to work progress results and newly identified client needs
• Provide necessary direction and support for the timely completion of work plan tasks and the achievement of component goals and objectives
• Work closely with and supervise the technical work of all local and expatriate consultants recruited including scope of work development, managing consultants’ work; teaming up with consultants to deliver assistance to partners, developing reports, PowerPoint presentations and other deliverables; and setting meeting agendas pertinent to any technical assistance provided by the consultant(s).
• Ensure compliance of consultants’ deliverables with the agreed to scope of work and that reports are of high technical quality and good overall readability, and in accordance with USAID and Chemonics standards
• Produce plans and written reports on project elements or technical areas as required
• Provide strategy-level support to the Chief of Party and other component leads in program implementation of the various initiatives under USAID Visit Tunisia Project’s destination marketing track

Desired Qualifications