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We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: R & D COVID-19 Officer
Location: Abuja
Project Summary
The USAID-funded West Africa Trade and Investment Hub (hereinafter referred to as the Trade Hub) is a five-year, $140 million trade and investment facilitation activity that seeks to improve private sector competitiveness in West Africa through a market-based approach
By working in partnership with the private sector and fostering co-investments, the project will generate new private-sector capital investment into key sectors to create jobs and increase trade between the U.S. and West Africa, including through increased utilization of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). The project comprises of three main components:
Design and administration of a Co-Investment fund for private sector partnerships, including a portion for partnerships targeting modernization in agriculture with Research and Development (R&D) initiatives;
Technical assistance (TA) that directly supports, coordinates, and engages with qualifying recipients (i.e., partners and grantees) to achieve USAID’s trade and food security objectives;
Urgently respond to the secondary economic impacts of COVID-19, notably to 1) increase access of working capital with financial actors, 2) prevent and mitigate job losses, and 3) help respond to local and regional supply chain disruptions and shortages of critical medical supplies and services as well as for agricultural inputs and food staples.
The R&D component of the Trade Hub’s Co-Investment Fund aims to support proven technologies and innovations in agriculture on a grant matching principle with public/private sector actors and research institutions that promote smallholder farmer productivity and incomes in Nigeria
The component engages with R&D organizations with initiatives that engage in smallholder productivity and/or processing improvements and align with the Trade Hub’s targeted value chains (maize, soy, rice, cowpea, aquaculture) and regions (Kebbi, Kaduna, Niger, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Benue).
Position Summary
The R&D COVID-19 Officer will support R&D efforts in establishing co-investment projects related to agriculture and COVID-19 rapid response in Nigeria. The R&D COVID-19 Officer’s responsibilities will include:
Reporting and Supervision:
Primary Responsibilities
The R&D COVID-19 Officer will be primarily responsible for:
Required Skills and Qualifications
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV as PDF or word format as one document to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
Application Deadline 26th November, 2020.
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