Company Director/Commerciai Adviser, Tuvalu

Applications are invited for the position of Company Director/Commercial Adviser based in the Ministry of Finance Commerce and Trade, Funafuti. The duration of the appointment is 2 years.

Candidates should be professionally quali fied and experienced in private sector commercial financial management and ac counting and should have a working know ledge of commercial and company law and procedures in the Pacific region. They should have the ability to personally oversee installations of accounting and reporting systems and to teach staff and managers to use these. An interest in Pacific cultures and peoples is essential and candidates should be well informed on the politics and economics of the region. The ability to get along with people of widely varying cultural and educational attain ments is necessary and some ability with language (able to pick up and use basic phrases and courtesies) is desirable.

Specific duties are: 1) To advise the Ministry of Finance Commerce and Trade and Tuvalu Govern ment on the further development of commercialisation policy including clari fication of Government policy on capital cost recovery by statutory authorities, the valuation of assets and their ownership, the regulatory framework and the need for operating agreements to be drawn up as a basis for corporatisation. 2) To develop a strategy for implementing a commercialisation policy for commer cial activities currently on the Govern ment budget. This should include an action plan identifying the steps to be taken and a timetable for their im plementation for each activity and the identification of any other inputs that may be needed to achieve the objectives set. 3) To clarify Governments requirements for monitoring existing Statutory bodies and Corporations and to set up

and operate a monitoring and reporting system within the Ministry of Finance Commerce and Trade. 4) To serve as a Government appointed director on all boards of public enterprise statutory corporations including the De velopment Bank of Tuvalu in order to ensure compliance with Government policy and monitoring requirements and to improve management generally. 5) To provide advice and assistance in commercialisation of the accounting, control, reporting and management sys tems in Statutory Corporations and the on-budget public enterprises. 6) To assist the Tuvalu Government with planning and setting up administrative systems for the operation of any outward looking companies Registry in close consultation with the Attorney General. 7) To perform such other tasks in developing complementaries on commercialisation between private sec tor and public enterprises.

The appointment will carry a salary of around A 550,000 after tax. Benefits for non Tuvalu citizens will include free accommo dation, passages, freight and if eligible childrens education allowances.

Application should be sent to: The Secretary for Finance and Commerce Tuvalu Government Ministry of Finance Vaiaku Funafuti

Tuvalu

Closing date for receipt of applications 5 January 1992.