Assistant MVR / Feasibility Studies Coordinator at Burn Nigeria

BURN is the largest vertically integrated modern cookstove company in the world, providing world-class R&D, manufacturing, and carbon offset projects from our HQ in Kenya and across 10 countries in Africa. We are working to create a world where cooking positively impacts all life on earth by producing the world’s most efficient biomass, liquid fuel, and electric cookstoves. Our team of 900 people - 51% of whom are women - is on track to produce and sell over 150,000 stoves per month in 2022 at our solar-powered facility in Kenya.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Assistant MVR / Feasibility Studies Coordinator

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

• We are looking for an MRV / Feasibility Studies Coordinator, with knowledge and skill in Project Management, who will assist in coordinating people and processes to ensure that our projects are delivered on time and produce the desired results.
• The desired candidate should be capable of taking up a project and running with it with minimal supervision.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with the MRV Manager, MRV/Feasibility Studies Coordinator, and Country Managers to set up surveys that reflect the unique fuel and stove culture, as well as stove usage monitoring methodologies.
• Support with the development of country-customized training materials for feasibility studies enumerators borrowing from the master training document under the supervision of the MRV Manager.
• Recruit, train and supervise location-efficient team enumerators and Team Leaders that can execute household-level feasibility studies.
• Initiate and follow through in the mobilization of budgets and other resources for efficient and timely execution of feasibility studies.
• Working closely with the MRV Manager and MRV/Feasibility Studies Coordinator to develop SOPs and checklists for maintaining the highest quality processes for efficient output from data and related units.
• Support with continuous review and audit the processes and surveys necessary to complete MRV and feasibility studies projects in time both quantitatively and qualitatively.
• Ensure data and documentation are compliant with laid down SOPs and methodologies.
• Collaborate and liaise closely and regularly with the relevant team members across the critical departments including but not limited to data and analytics, call centres, and commercial.
• Manage routine corrections of erroneous output and work to continuously improve this environment by harvesting and documenting lessons towards continuous improvement.
• Creating comprehensive monthly reports on the Pareto of issues, including root causes, examples, trends, and options for solutions.  

Skills and Experience

• Individuals will need excellent technical abilities to carry out audit-like work in a data-heavy environment.  
• Relevant technical data handling skills in areas of collection using tools like Kobo and basic analysis using Ms. Excel.
• Team leadership and management of field teams in multiple locations.
• Required soft skills include people and teamwork skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving.  
• The role-holder is expected to have strong field monitoring and evaluation skills including effective communication skills to constantly liaise with the team members to ensure all enumerators or team leaders are achieving both their qualitative and quantitative targets.
• This specialist should also have effective communication skills to interact with team members or customers, as well as provide training as needed to colleagues.
• Possess 3 to 5 years of experience in field team leadership and management in areas like data collection or sales.
• Strong experience in field teams’ leadership and management  
• Data collection using platforms and mobile apps like Kobo  
• Team coordination  
• Project coordination  
• Process audit experience.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.