Vacancy at Propcom Mai-karfi

Employment Nigeria 19-May-2017 ABUJA , Administrative

Propcom Mai-karfi - a six-year project working to improve the livelihoods of Nigeria’s rural poor through targeted market initiatives

POSITION : Market Section Manager

Description

Supervise and lead a market section comprising a number of Intervention / Business Development Managers.

The Market Section Manager’s team will oversee interventions in several target markets and identify further opportunities for the programme to pursue.

Responsibilities:

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 based on political economy analysis 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 analyses, ensuring that study designs, contracting, and implementation are done in accordance with set standards,
Driving the stakeholder analysis of the selected commodity chains as well as identifying potential agents of change,
Overseeing the implementation of select market interventions, ensuring that initiative is taken and setting work plans for these interventions,
Identifying and establishing strategic partnerships within the markets and playing a lead role in managing all established partnerships, § Ensuring:
administrative guidance is followed for grants, subcontracts, collaboration agreements and general administration; programme budgets and funding requests for the markets being supervised are appropriately managed; security guidelines are followed by all team members who are line managed,
Improving the performance of the team through mentoring and coaching,
Strong team work with the Results Measurement team,
Contributing to the overall leadership of the programme as a part of the project’s senior management team.

Skills & Experience

A Master’s degree in a related discipline
Problem solving and analytical skills
Knowledge of the agricultural sector in northern Nigeria is a definite advantage
Develop well written, cohesive reports
Skills in business software (Excel, MS Project and PowerPoint)
Team management experience
Ability to form strong partnerships
Communication skills in both written and spoken English

Requirements

Excellent Hausa speaker with the ability to decipher nuances in communicating across all levels
Knowledge of M4P approach
Self-motivated individuals who can work independently with minimal supervision; a strong team player and knowledge sharer
Relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in and proven experience with networking at private, public and Government levels
Experience with and demonstrated ability to build relationships and network with analogous organisations
Work for six months with the possibility of an extension subject to performance and extension of the programme
Willingness to travel extensively in northern Nigeria

How To Apply
Candidates should send their CV's (maximum of three pages), full details of your 3 referees and a 1 page covering letter to: recruit@propcommaikarfi.org with the position applied for as the subject

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