State Training Officers (STOs) at Sahel Consulting Agriculture and Nutrition Limited (Sahel) - 7 Openings

Sahel Consulting Agriculture and Nutrition Ltd (Sahel) is a leading management consulting firm focused on the agricultural and nutrition sectors in Africa. We partner with government agencies, private sector actors, and leading international development organizations to research, analyze policies, develop strategies, and implement programs that promote sustainable food security and improved nutrition. We work on various projects across Africa, including Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: State Training Officer (STO)

Locations: Abuja (FCT), Adamawa, Delta, Enugu, Kano, Ogun, Plateau
Employment Type: Contract

Overview

• Sahel Consulting is Implementing the Sustainable Entrepreneurship-Led Poultry Transformation Program (SEPTP).
• The program is a five-year program funded by the Mastercard Foundation and implemented through a consortium led by Christian Aid across seven states in Nigeria.

The program aims to:

• Strengthen the poultry skills and enterprise capacities of youth and women between ages 18-35 years
• Improve market access and create sustainable jobs within the poultry value chain
• Enhance institutional coordination and support policy reform in Nigeria’s poultry sector

Sahel Consulting leads two components under SEPTP
Skills and Enterprise Development:

• Sahel Consulting will lead the design and delivery of high-quality poultry entrepreneurship skills training and support youth and women to transition from training into viable poultry enterprises under the Skills and Enterprise Development Component of the Program.

Policy and institutional strengthening:

• Sahel Consulting will lead the program’s policy and institutional strengthening agenda working with industry associations, government institutions and private sector actors to improve coordination across the poultry value chain, embed training standards, strengthen enterprise support systems and ensure that evidence from field implementation informs sustainable sector-level reforms.

Role Summary

• The State Training Officers (STO) oversee state-level planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting for the Skills & Enterprise component of SEPTP.
• The role is responsible for ensuring equitable, safe, and meaningful participation of women, youth, and other marginalized groups across all training, enterprise, and market linkage activities within the state.
• The role ensures high-quality outreach, curriculum delivery, enterprise advisors' [FK1] supervision, and post-training enterprise support across designated LGAs within the States.
• This is a field-intensive, coordination-heavy position requiring strong leadership, technical knowledge, and excellent stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities
Training Coordination & Delivery Oversight:

• Lead state-level planning for all outreach, training, and enterprise activities.
• Design and oversee training delivery in ways that proactively address gender, disability, and other inclusion barriers to participation and learning.
• Develop state training calendars, cluster schedules, and venue arrangements.
• Supervise and support Poultry Enterprise Advisors (PEAs) to ensure training quality.
• Conduct spot-checks during training to ensure curriculum fidelity.
• Ensure inclusion, safeguarding, and gender requirements are integrated into all training activities.

Outreach & Gap Assessment:

• Participate in community entry meetings with Christian Aid and local leaders.
• Coordinate and monitor the implementation of gap assessments during outreach.
• Ensure gap assessments systematically capture gender, disability, and other inclusion-related constraints and opportunities affecting participation, skills uptake, and enterprise viability.
• Consolidate PEA data into a state-level gap analysis report.
• Present findings to Sahel Technical and Entrepreneurship Experts to inform curriculum customization.

PEAs (Poultry Enterprise Advisor) Supervision & Performance Management:

• Directly supervise PEAs in assigned state.
• Conduct weekly check-ins and review weekly training and enterprise logs.
• Track performance using Sahel’s PEAs scorecard (attendance, delivery quality, reporting, coaching efficiency).
• Hold PEAs accountable for gender-responsive, inclusive, and respectful facilitation practices, and reflect this in performance reviews, feedback, and corrective actions.
• Recommend sanctions, replacements, or additional training for underperforming PEAs.
• Support certification and recertification of PSEAs.

Enterprise Support & Market Linkages:

• Support PEAs to form and strengthen Youth/Women Enterprise Clusters (5–15 members).
• Ensure enterprise clustering and market linkages are inclusive of women and marginalized youth and address gender-specific constraints to enterprise growth.
• Monitor early-stage enterprise performance (recordkeeping, input access, sales).
• Facilitate linkages with aggregators, input suppliers, financial services, and processors.
• Coordinate state-level market systems engagements with Christian Aid teams.

Stakeholder & Partner Engagement:

• Serve as the primary Sahel representative in the state.
• Coordinate with Christian Aid State Coordinators for alignment on outreach, safeguarding, MEL, and reporting.
• Promote inclusive engagement of women and youth in coordination with government, associations, and market partners.
• Liaise with PAN, PIFAN, SMEDAN, and LGA agricultural departments for institutional strengthening.
• Provide field data to support policy advocacy and CoP thematic discussions.

Monitoring, Reporting & Compliance:

• Ensure PEAs collect accurate attendance, pre/post-tests, enterprise coaching logs, and market linkage data.
• Submit weekly state progress reports to Sahel Technical Expert.
• Update state risk registers weekly and escalate urgent red flags immediately.
• Ensure sex- and age-disaggregated reporting, timely identification of gender and inclusion risks, and survivor-centered safeguarding compliance.
• Support MEL processes led by Christian Aid (baseline, midline, endline, learning assessments).

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum OND/HND; B.Sc. in Agriculture, Animal Science, Agribusiness, Veterinary Medicine or related field preferred.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in training coordination, community development, extension services, or field project management.
• Experience working with women, youth, and marginalized groups.
• Experience working in rural communities
• Strong digital literacy: WhatsApp, data collection tools (Kobo, ODK), Excel.
• Fluency in the relevant local language(s).
• Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Desirable:

• Experience with donor-funded projects, INGOs or private sector agribusiness.
• Prior experience managing extension agents or field officers.
• Knowledge of livestock management.
• Experience with micro-enterprise development, coaching, or value chain interventions.
• Experience supporting women, youth, or other marginalized groups in community-based or enterprise-focused programming.
• Understanding and Familiarity of poultry production systems in Nigeria is an added.

Application Closing Date
12th March, 2026.