Investment Lead - REMIT Programme

About the Programme

The Revenue Mobilisation, Investment and Trade (REMIT) programme funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The programme provides technical assistance (TA) to Pakistan to implement reforms for strengthening macroeconomic stability and improving conditions for high and sustained growth, mutual prosperity, job creation and poverty reduction. ASI is one of the implementing partners on REMIT and is responsible for delivering technical assistance to support the Government of Pakistan, its relevant ministries, institutions, and departments to strengthen revenue mobilisation reforms/initiatives; address investment environment challenges; facilitate trade and drive competitiveness by reducing the trade barriers; and improve the macroeconomic policy and its management.

Background and Purpose

REMIT supports Pakistan’s economic reform agenda through targeted technical assistance and delivery enablement. A central pillar of the programme is to support the Government of Pakistan in delivering an aggressive reform agenda that is focused on improving the overall business environment and investment climate in the country. The investment workstream under REMIT has become a high-achieving workstream and enjoys a high level of ownership with the key stakeholders of the government and FCDO.   

The purpose of the role is to deliver the investment workstream in the last year of the programme. The investment portfolio is already designed, and the role will therefore be to ensure timely delivery and quality of the outputs produced.   

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

The key responsibilities for the role include:

A. Delivery of the Investment Workstream (Primary Focus)

·       Serve as the lead for the Investment Workstream, with overall responsibility for its delivery, including the management and coordination of associates and their technical inputs.

·       Work closely with the DTL to report on priority strands, technical interventions, and reform areas most likely to unlock progress, ensuring coherence, sequencing, and implementation focus.

·       Scope, mobilise, and coordinate technical assistance across the workstream, including the design of implementation plans and detailed workplans, and ensure timely delivery.

·       Provide quality assurance for technical products, particularly those supporting roadmap priority areas, ensuring relevance, clarity, implementability, and alignment with fiscal, legal, and institutional realities, as well as consistency of assumptions and narratives across all inputs.

·       Ensure that REMIT’s technical contributions are effectively integrated, communicated, and translated into actionable guidance for counterparts and FCDO, maintaining strong, delivery-focused feedback loops.

·       Prepare quarterly progress reports and respond to information requests and queries from senior management.

B. Regulatory Reform Packages (Specific Focus)

·       Provide comprehensive technical leadership and support for the design and delivery of regulatory reform packages under the Regulatory Guillotine and the Asaan Karobar Initiative.

·       Lead stakeholder consultations to identify, prioritise, and refine reform areas.

·       Supervise and coordinate the work of associates, technical specialists, and legal experts supporting the reform process.

·       Manage contracts and oversee the performance and outputs of international experts engaged under the programme.

·       Develop, review, and finalise decision memoranda and technical recommendations in close collaboration with relevant public sector stakeholders.

·       Undertake any additional tasks required to ensure the effective and timely delivery of regulatory reform activities under REMIT.

C. HNWI and Diaspora Activities (Specific Focus)

·       Support execution of the High Net Worth Individual and diaspora engagement activities in coordination with the investment advisor and the DTL.

·       Manage contracts and oversee the performance and outputs of firms engaged under these activities.

D. Overall Programme Support

·       Report on a day-to-day basis to the DTL and provide flexible support across programme activities, as required.

·       Convene and facilitate meetings of the Investment Working Group and provide substantive technical input to Programme Steering Committee (PSC) meetings.

·       Support cross-workstream coordination and contribute to overall programme coherence, risk management, and delivery performance.

Key Deliverables

A. Investment Workstream Deliverables (Primary Focus)

1.     Annual and Quarterly Investment Workstream Plans

o   Approved annual strategy and rolling quarterly workplans outlining priorities, sequencing, milestones, and resource requirements.

o   Detailed, costed, and time-bound implementation plans for priority reform and investment facilitation initiatives.

2.     Technical Assistance Mobilisation

o   Scoping notes, TORs, and mobilisation plans for domestic and international technical assistance assignments.

3.     Quality-Assured Technical Outputs

o   Reviewed and approved policy notes, analytical papers, reform proposals, and implementation tools aligned with programme objectives and institutional constraints.

4.     Integrated Stakeholder Engagement

o   Structured engagement plans and consultation summaries documenting inputs from government, private sector, and development partners.

5.     Coordination and Communication Products

o   Briefing notes, presentations, and communication materials for counterparts and FCDO, reflecting coherent programme narratives.

6.     Quarterly Progress and Performance Reports

o   Comprehensive reports tracking outputs, outcomes, risks, and corrective actions.

B. Regulatory Reform Package Deliverables (Specific Focus)

8.     Regulatory Reform Diagnostics and Mapping Reports

o   Sector- or theme-specific diagnostics identifying regulatory barriers, redundancies, and reform priorities.

9.     Stakeholder Consultation Reports

o   Documented outcomes of consultations, including validated reform options and consensus positions.

10.  Regulatory Guillotine Reform Packages

o   Complete reform packages, including inventories, repeal/amendment proposals, and implementation timelines.

11.  Asaan Karobar Reform Proposals

o   Endorsed reform recommendations aligned with the Asaan Karobar framework and ease-of-doing-business objectives.

12.  Decision Memoranda and Policy Submission Notes

o   Finalised memos and cabinet/ministerial submissions supporting reform approval and implementation.

13.  International Expert Deliverables and Knowledge Products

o   Managed and validated outputs from international consultants, including technical reports, toolkits, and training materials.

14.  Legal and Institutional Reform Drafts

o   Draft amendments, regulatory instruments, SOPs, and institutional frameworks developed in coordination with legal experts.

C. Programme Management and Cross-Cutting Deliverables

15.  Investment Working Group Meeting Records

o   Agendas, minutes, action trackers, and follow-up reports for all Investment Working Group meetings.

16.  PSC Briefing and Decision Support Packs

o   High-quality briefing materials and presentations for Programme Steering Committee meetings.

17.  Risk, Dependency, and Political Economy Analysis Notes

o   Periodic analytical notes identifying implementation risks, blockers, and mitigation strategies.

18.  Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Inputs

o   Contribution to results frameworks, indicator tracking, and learning reviews.

19.  Delivery and Issue Resolution Logs

o   Maintained trackers for bottlenecks, escalations, and resolution actions.

20.  Knowledge Management and Handover Packages

o   Consolidated documentation, databases, and handover notes to ensure institutional continuity.

Required experience and profile

·       Senior experience supporting complex economic reform and delivery agendas in politically constrained environments, with very specific experience of handling regulatory reform works in complex environments.

·       Strong programme management skills across multiple technical workstreams.

·       Track record of mobilising and quality assuring high-quality technical assistance.

·       Excellent stakeholder management with central delivery actors and donor teams, with strong judgement and discretion. Experience of working with key public sector counterparts in Pakistan.

·       Sufficient technical breadth across investment climate, business regulation, and broader investment issues.

·       Clear and concise communication, able to produce crisp briefs, trackers, and decision notes.

Reporting, Ways of Working and Level of Effort

·       Reports to: REMIT Deputy Team Leader.

·       The required level of effort is 18 days per month 

Application Deadline -  Sunday 15th February at 5pm (PAK Time).