Market Section Manager at Propcom Mai-karfi

Propcom Mai-karfi, a six-year project which works to improve the livelihoods of Nigeria’s rural poor through targeted market initiatives. Propcom Mai-karfi aims to increase the incomes of 500,000 poor Nigerians; half of them by enhancing employment opportunities and improving productivity in selected agricultural and other rural markets in northern Nigeria.

Propcom Mai-karfi will currently run through December 2017 and is managed by Palladium in partnership with Technosee for the UK Department for International Development. Propcom Mai-karfi seeks high-performing, results-oriented professionals who have a particular interest in resilience and environmental issues to fill the position below, and join its dynamic and exciting team Abuja:

Job Title: Market Section Manager

Location: Abuja

Job Description

• The Market Section Manager will supervise and lead a market section comprising a number of Intervention Managers.
• The Market Section Manager’s team will oversee interventions in several target markets and identify further opportunities for the programme to pursue,

Responsibilities will include:

• 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 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 to 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, MoUs, and general administration;
• Budgets for the markets being supervised are appropriately managed;
• Security guidelines are followed by all team members,
• Improving the performance of the team through mentoring and coaching,
• Ensuring strong team work with the Results Measurement team,
• Contributing to the overall leadership of the programme as a part of the project’s 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 sector in northern Nigeria is a definite advantage

Application Closing Date
19th February, 2016.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV (maximum of three pages), full details of their referees and a 1 page covering letter outlining how their skills and competencies match the requirements of the post they are applying for to: [email protected]