Job Vacancy: Job title: P2 Workstream Lead – PROPCOM+
Job description: P2 Workstream Lead – PROPCOM+
About Palladium:
At Palladium, we are excited to announce some new job opportunities one of its Projects! As we continue to grow and expand, we are seeking motivated individuals to join our dynamic team and contribute to our continued success. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to contribute towards increasing productivity, improve nutrition and food security; enhance climate resilience, pursue lower emissions, and protect and restore nature. In addition, you will help tackle some of Nigeria’s underlying drivers of conflict and insecurity. professionally, but you will also become part of a close-knit community that celebrates diversity and values collaboration. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping the future of our country and making a positive impact on the lives of our clients and customers.
We are integrating conflict sensitivity, gender equality, promoting diversity, and encouraging social inclusion. All stakeholders involved in this project must adhere to principles that respect and empower vulnerable individuals, especially women, throughout the entire implementation process.
If this sounds like a career opportunity that aligns with your goals and ambitions, we invite you to check through the relevant Job Descriptions and submit your application today. We are eager to connect with motivated individuals who are ready to embark on a rewarding journey with us.
This Opportunity:
Propcom+ is a new FCDO-funded eight-year (2023-2030), rural and agricultural market development programme supporting climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture and forestry that benefits people, climate, and nature. The programme is implemented by The Palladium Group, and it aims to transform Nigeria’s rural economy by addressing environmental, social, and economic challenges in the country’s food and land-use system. It will do this by (i) increasing productivity, improve nutrition and food security; (ii) enhance climate resilience, pursue lower emissions, and protect and restore nature, and (iii) help tackle some of Nigeria’s underlying drivers of conflict and insecurity. It does this by working as a ‘market facilitator’, identifying constraints in markets systems and facilitating changes to enable rural markets to work better for the benefit of poor and climate-vulnerable smallholder farmers and rural small-scale entrepreneurs.
Propcom+ has a target of increasing the incomes and climate resilience of 3.9 million poor and vulnerable people in Nigeria, 50% of whom will be women, through a “3Ps” approach of interlinked components:
P1: Scaling-up a focused basket of Proven climate-smart interventions around agricultural and primary processing / storage practices and models to get these adopted by millions of poor and vulnerable smallholder farmers and small-scale entrepreneurs.
P2: Building markets by developing and Piloting new business models that improve productivity, enhance resilience to climate change, reduce emissions, and improve nutrition outcomes.
P3: Enabling Policies that support a strengthened enabling environment for sustainable food and land-use system.
Location and Compensation:
The position is based in Palladium’s Abuja office. The P2 Workstream Lead will be required to travel frequently within Nigeria, particularly to the Northern part of Nigeria.
Please be advised that a final salary offer will be based on various factors, including but not limited to your qualifications, education, experience, skills, seniority, performance, and Palladium’s business or organizational needs.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the compensation for this position, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We value your interest in our company and appreciate the opportunity to discuss this opportunity with you.
You and Your Career:
If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have expertise in rural and agricultural market development, we are interested in hearing from you.
We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!
Reporting and Supervision:
This post will report to the Strategy director.
This post will supervise the Portfolio manager position as may be decided by Programme management.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Sourcing and assessment of innovative business models
- Develop framework for identifying and assessing viable innovations
- Find ways to grow the incubator, attracting new ideas and entrepreneurs to the project
- Accountable for the incubator communications strategy regarding attracting entrepreneurs and informing market actors
- Piloting support to test innovations and iterate designs
- Support business plan development and identify capacity gaps at business level, including finance needs
- Deliver targeted technical assistance to operationalise business plans
- Facilitate training, mentorship, and business support, based on business needs
- Prepare promising businesses for investor engagement
- Manage technical assistance and performance-based grants (where relevant)
Team Management
- Manage an agile team (staff, consultants, and subcontractors) ensuring excellent work and high-quality outputs.
- Ensure good staff management practices including staff planning, recruitment, on-boarding, appraisal, and development.
- Support team to collect evidential data for MERL.
Stakeholder Management
- Manage relationship within agricultural entrepreneurship and MSME ecosystem, as well as with representatives of the Government of Nigeria.
- Lead the creation of Public Private Partnerships to incentivise the adoption of inclusive and sustainable models and practices
- Maintain excellent relationship with the Leadership Team and Technical Advisors
- Keep close relationship with the P1 and P3 Workstream leads to ensure smooth transitions and share knowledge
Project Management
- Lead client reporting on P2 results, activities, recommendations, and lessons learned.
- Where relevant, assume responsibility for consistent implementation of company Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Guidelines, Security Protocols and, where applicable, recommend modifications.
- Where relevant, ensure the programme provides and demonstrates Value for Money
Key Competencies Required:
A master’s degree in economics, Agric-economics, any field of Engineering, Project management, marketing, or Strategic management.
Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:
- Substantial (10+ years) experience of relevant, professional experience, for instance supporting agricultural development, food security, MSME agribusiness and/or private sector development.
- Experience working on donor-funded projects required, FCDO and USAID experience preferred
- Meaningful experience applying market systems approaches
- Strong technical experience in the areas of entrepreneurship, MSME start-up, investment finance and MSME business development and/or startup incubation
- Experience in finance and investment desired
- Active, established networks in the above areas
- Risk mitigation
- Demonstrated management skills and effective interpersonal skills
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion – Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss.
Safeguarding – We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.
Location: Abuja, FCT
Job date: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:26:19 GMT
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