Propcom Mai-karfi, a six-year project working to improve the livelihoods of Nigeria’s rural poor through targeted market initiatives, is seeking a high-performing, results-oriented professional to serve as Contracts Coordinator.
Propcom Mai-karfi aims to increase incomes for 500,000 poor Nigerians, including 50% women, by enhancing employment opportunities and improving productivity in selected agricultural and other rural markets in Northern Nigeria.
Propcom Mai-karfi, which runs through December 2017, is managed by GRM International, in partnership with Technoserve, for the UK Department for International Development.
Market Section Manager
Location: Abuja
The Market Section Manager will supervise and lead a market section comprising a number of Intervention Managers. This team will oversee interventions in several target markets and identify further opportunities for the programme to pursue.
Responsibilities will include:
- Providing overall strategic direction for the market sector and all interventions within the sector; monitoring and quality assuring all intervention guides and resulting outputs
- Identifying new markets in order to contribute to the overall programme strategy and liaising with the senior management team on potential markets
- Initiating and managing all market related value chain analysis ensuring study designs, contracting and implementation are done in accordance to set standards
- Driving the stakeholder analysis of the selected commodity chains as well as identifying potential agents of change
- Overseeing the implementation of all market interventions ensuring initiative is taken and setting work plans for the intervention
- Identifying and establishing strategic partnerships within the market and playing a lead role in managing all established partnerships
- Ensuring Administrative guidance is followed for grants, MoUs, and general administration
- Budgets are managed for the markets being supervised
- Security guidelines are followed by all team members
- Improving the performance of the team through mentoring and coaching
- Ensuring good linkages with the Results Measurement team
- Contributing to the overall leadership of the programme as part of the management team
In return we offer:
- A friendly and team-based working environment in Abuja
- Opportunity to collaborate with national and international colleagues
- Opportunity to make a vital contribution to an innovative Nigerian development programme
- A competitive salary with benefits
- The role is based in Abuja, although travel within northern Nigeria will be required.
- Applications are encouraged from all those who can clearly demonstrate sound evidence of success in a business advisory or agricultural management role and a passion for development in Nigeria.
Job Requirements
Required Experience: year(s)
Required Skills & Experience:
- A Master’s degree in a related discipline
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- Experience and knowledge of the agricultural inputs market in Northern Nigeria is a definite advantage.
- Ability to develop well written, cohesive reports
- Excellent analytical skills
- Hausa is desirable
- Willingness to travel domestically, especially to the north of Nigeria
- Strong skills in business software (Excel, MS Project and PowerPoint)
- Previous experience on M4P projects preferred
- Team management experience
- Evidence of the ability to form strong partnerships
- Credibility within the business community
- Excellent communication skills in both written and spoken English
Please send your CV (maximum of three pages), full details of two referees, salary history and a 1 page covering letter outlining how your skills and competencies match the requirements of this post to: [email protected]
Full details of the post can be found on our website: www.propcommaikarfi.org.
The closing date for application is February 14, 2015.