Capacity Building Programme Manager at Infrastructure Credit Guarantee (InfraCredit)

Infrastructure Credit Guarantee (InfraCredit) is a ‘AAA’ rated specialized infrastructure credit guarantee institution backed by the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, GuarantCo and InfraCo Africa (Private Infrastructure Development Group companies), KfW Development Bank, Africa Finance Corporation and African Development Bank to provide local currency guarantees and mobilize long term debt financing for infrastructure in Nigeria.

InfraCredit’s guarantees act as a catalyst to attract domestic credit from pension funds, insurance firms and other longterm investors into credit-worthy infrastructure projects, thereby deepening the Nigerian debt capital markets. InfraCredit operates in Nigeria on a commercial basis with private sector governance and mainly supports brownfield operating infrastructure companies. InfraCredit maintains the highest domestic financial strength ratings accorded to any financial institution by Agusto & Co. and Global Credit Ratings Co., the two leading domestic credit rating agencies.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Capacity Building Programme Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time
Report To: The Chief Executive Officer

Background

• Responsible for Planning, Coordinating and Executing all activities and trainings in relation to the InfraCredit Capacity Building programme.

Job Responsibilities
The resource person will be responsible for but not be limited to the following:

• Building and maintaining partnerships and relationships with programme partners, raise grant funding, and educate the pension fund investors about investing in infrastructure financing projects.
• Developing project implementation plans, training manuals and other standard operational procedures for the capacity building programmes and development impact assessments.
• Developing monitoring, evaluation and learning milestones for assessing the performance of success of the programme.
• Creating and monitoring annual work plans, programme initiatives, and budget development.
• Drafting and publishing reports on programme objectives, milestones, and plans.
• Planning and designing the Infrastructure Capacity Building Programme and proactively monitoring its progress, ensuring programme efficiency and institutionalization of the programme.
• Ensuring effective quality assurance and overall integrity of the programme – focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the programme, and outwardly on its coherence with corporate, technical and specialist standards.
• Managing the programme’s budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses.
• Ensuring the delivery of new initiatives in line with the strategic approach/objectives of the programme.
• Managing communications and relationships with all stakeholders as well as regularly track stakeholders’ perception of the programme and company activities-conveying same to the management.
• Managing risks to the programme’s successful outcome.
• Reporting the progress of the programme through publication of annual reports, case studies and other communication channels.
• Expertly use MS Office Suite tools, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint in delivering professional business/report writing and presentations for internal and external use.
• Other responsibilities in relation to capacity building as assigned by the Chief Executive Officer and Management team.

Skills

• Graduate Degree qualification in Economics/Business/Statistics and other related fields.
• Minimum of 8 years of work experience.
• Experience with organising, co-ordinating and executing professional trainings in the finance sector.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage time effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Good communication skills, with an ability to engage effectively with clients, investors, internal peers, consultants, facilitators, PFAs etc.
• Very strong alignment with InfraCredit’s core value system – Innovation, Passion, Integrity and Collaboration.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online