Jobs at Propcom Mai-karfi

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

targeted market initiatives, is seeking a highperforming, results-oriented professional to serve as Market Section Manager.

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.

We are seeking to employ a suitable and qualified candidate for the position of:

Market Section Manager

 

Job Description

• 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

• 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


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  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

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, is essential


• 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


• The role is based in Abuja, although travel within extensive northern Nigeria will be required.

RemunerationIn 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

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.

Interested and qualified candidates should send their 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:msmrecruit@propcommaikarfi.org

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Intervention Manager/Business Development Manager

 

Responsibilities
You will be:

• Able to lead and manage programme interventions, including design, strategy, planning, execution, monitoring and reporting of intervention activities


• Experienced at developing and maintaining productive relationships with project partners (mostly businesses) and internal colleagues


• Able to collaborate with partners to help them assess and develop new business opportunities and practices relevant to rural communities


• Able to demonstrate an understanding of agricultural and other rural markets in Nigeria as well as the cultural and socio-economic context in which the programme operates


• Familiar with how businesses really work and what they need to succeed


• Entrepreneurial and flexible, able to adapt to fast-changing working context


• A team player with a proven ability to work effectively with others in a multicultural setting


• Competent user of Excel, Word, Powerpoint and possibly statistical packages


• A fluent Hausa speaker with good command of the English language

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


• The opportunity to truly “make a difference”


• 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.

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV (maximum of three pages), full details of your referees, salary history and a 1 page covering letter outlining how your skills and competencies match the requirements of this post to:imrecruit@propcommaikarfi.org

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Method of Application

Interested and suitably qualified candidates should see preferred Job Details for Method of Application.

Jobs at Propcom Mai-karfi