Senior Intervention Officer - Agroforestry and Sustainable Commodities at Palladium Group

Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact - the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Intervention Officer - Agroforestry and Sustainable Commodities

Job ID: req24140
Locations: Abuja, Nigeria

Summary

• Propcom+ aims to support the transformation of Nigeria’s rural economy through an integrated
• approach that addresses challenges in environmental, social, and economic dimensions of Nigeria’s food and land-use system.
• It will do this by addressing the key barriers to sustainable agricultural development to increase productivity, enhance resilience to climate change, and pursue lower emissions as well as helping tackle some of Nigeria’s underlying drivers of conflict.

About the role

• The Senior Intervention Officer will lead and manage key interventions on Sustainable Land Use and Forestry ensuring activities are implemented effectively to deliver results and impact under the Propcom+ program.
• The role includes overseeing project activities, coordinating with stakeholders, applying a broad range of market development tools to stimulate changes in the behaviour of market actors and structures, leading to more inclusive, “green” and sustainable market growth and providing technical expertise to drive the program’s success.
• S/he will work closely with the Forestry and Sustainable Land Use (FSLU) Lead and collaborate with the GESI Lead, MERL team, and other Propcom+ technical teams to ensure alignment with key reporting indicators.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the FSLU Lead in developing a strategic and balanced pipeline of partnerships and interventions; and managing technical assistance portfolio while regularly updating the FSLU strategy and corresponding workplans to achieve P+ and FCDO priorities.
• Work with private sector partners to strengthen their production and supply chain relationships with smallholder farmers alongside helping them to implement climate sensitive production practices.
• Identify and maintain collaborative relationships with other donor-funded and development programs across Propcom+ States to strengthen complementarity and deepen developmental impacts.
• Influence private sector partners and government institutions to implement community-led and community-centered initiatives that promote ownership, recognize community rights, strengthen inclusion and advance rights of women, children, and other marginalized groups.
• Identify and design intervention opportunities, maintaining coverage, and fulfilling programmes commitments in Propcom+ Tier 2 states.
• Periodically assess Programme/intervention assumptions in the light of the changing environment; identify emerging priorities, refine, and adapt intervention strategies accordingly.
• Perform periodic industry analyses on the broader forest-risk agriculture commodity markets and targeted subsectors to keep the programme strategy responsive.
• Support investor engagement into sustainable commodities and partnerships.
• Lead in supporting the development of business plans with project partners to meet expected financial investment and traction from the private sector.
• Conduct business investment potential and readiness assessment, develop factsheets as maybe required, that provide an overview of financial and technical updates for value chains that our intervention actors are engaged in.
• Contribute to strategic planning, effective management of interventions and timely reporting to meet programmes priorities, milestones and outcomes and alignment with client’s expectations.
• Assist regional work streams in generating FCDO and internal project reports/updates.
• Ensure interventions under implementation achieve Propcom+ SLU milestone targets as planned and share lessons and impact stories around interventions under implementation.
• Lead in establishing contacts with state and non-state actors that may contribute to the successful implementation of market activities and maintain relationships with key players with common interests as Propcom+.
• Conduct regular field visits to ensure proper implementation of intervention activities.
• Provide a range of project management support related to the projects, including due diligence, budgeting, monitoring and reporting, as well as contracting, procurement MoUs, ToRs and any other administrative requirement for the interventions.
• Provide periodic report to support decision making.
• Engage in developing and sharing knowledge products relating to own interventions

Teamwork:

• Work as a part of Propcom+ team in delivering programme results.
• Deploy a consultative approach while working with both team members, consultants and
• partners.
• Foster good relationship among team members, demonstrate professional attitude and
• maintain a respectful and inclusive workplace.
• Whenever tasked with management responsibility, ensure that good management practices
• are deployed.
• Promote mutual accountability among team members and uphold good team spirit at all
• times.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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