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The Program
The "Growth and Employment in States" programme for the wholesale and
retail sector in Nigeria, (GEMS4), uses a market development approach
(M4P) to generate sustainable jobs and incomes for low-income men and
women through a wide variety of initiatives, including mobile money for
traders, ICT-based solutions to bringing market information and trading
platforms to farmers, eCommerce, linking rice to commercial mills,
linking tomatoes to processing plants, off-grid power,
micro-distribution and Good Handling Practices amongst others.
The project has a further 20 months to run and we need an experienced
professional to manage the process of scaling up and delivering on our
activity in the technology, information provision to rural markets,
finance and banking sector during this period.
Job Title: Group Intervention Manager
Job no: 493533
Work type: Contract
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Categories: International development
Job Description
The Group Intervention Manager is responsible for designing and
providing management oversight to a portfolio of GEMS4 interventions.
They are accountable for the delivery of the intervention portfolio and
are responsible for providing effective programme planning,
implementation, monitoring and reporting of progress and outputs against
the project plan.
The Group Intervention Manager will implement a series of
interventions in their area of responsibility that address the key
constraints identified within a market system, and that are likely to
have a substantial and sustainable systemic change and positive pro-poor
impact. The interventions should be aligned with M4P and the WEE (women
economic empowerment) approaches of GEMS4.
In additional, the Group Intervention Manager is also responsible for
supporting the Team Leader and Operations Manager in managing the
operational delivery of the programme and providing cover for them when
required.
The Person
The successful post holder will require the following:
- Robust understanding of M4P methodology.
- Experience with projects in the area of Financial Inclusion.
- Good understanding and experience with projects in the area of
Information and Communication Technology for development with focus on
agriculture and rural economic development.
S/he will need to:
- Understand the systemic constraints contributing to the under
performance of the market systems and help to develop/innovate local
solution for addressing the systemic constraints with commercial
viability and long term sustainability
- Engage with relevant public/private organizations to understand
their mandate, business and commercial incentives for extending their
services to the pro poor segment of the consumers.
- Monitor the progress of the interventions work and reporting the
status/outcome of the interventions to different external and internal
stakeholders of the project.
- Provide leadership and management support to the GEMS 4 team based
in Lagos in collaboration with and under the direction of the project
Team Leader.
How to Apply
We welcome applications from suitable candidates based both inside
and outside Nigeria. We offer an attractive, market linked salary and
for applicants based outside Nigeria, assistance with housing, medical
insurance and flights to and from your home country.
Interested and qualified candidates should
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Please note this position will involve extensive travel around
Nigeria and a willingness on occasion to work outside of normal office
hours including weekends.
For any enquiries, please contact [email protected] and quote the job reference number.
Coffey has a 40 year history in successfully delivering international
development projects on behalf of donors right around the world,
including Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, USAID and
the UK's Department for International Development. Our people work side
by side with local partners to support stability, economic growth and
good governance, positively changing people's lives.
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