Coffey has a 40 year history in successfully delivering international development projects on behalf of donors right around the world, including Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, USAID and the UK's Department for International Development. Our people work side by side with local partners to support stability, economic growth and good governance, positively changing people's lives.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Group Intervention Manager
Job no: 493533
Location: Lagos
Work type: Contract
The Program
- The "Growth and Employment in States" programme for the wholesale and retail sector in Nigeria, (GEMS4), uses a market development approach (M4P) to generate sustainable jobs and incomes for low-income men and women through a wide variety of initiatives, including mobile money for traders, ICT-based solutions to bringing market information and trading platforms to farmers, eCommerce, linking rice to commercial mills, linking tomatoes to processing plants, off-grid power, micro-distribution and Good Handling Practices amongst others.
- The project has a further 20 months to run and we need an experienced professional to manage the process of scaling up and delivering on our activity in the technology, information provision to rural markets, finance and banking sector during this period.
The Position
The Group Intervention Maanding and experience with projects in the area of Information and Communication Technology for development with focus on agriculture and rural economic development.S/he Will Need To:
- Understand the systemic constraints contributing to the under performance of the market systems and help to develop/innovate local solution for addressing the systemic constraints with commercial viability and long term sustainability
- Engage with relevant public/private organizations to understand their mandate, business and commercial incentives for extending their services to the pro poor segment of the consumers.
- Monitor the progress of the interventions work and reporting the status/outcome of the interventions to different external and internal stakeholders of the project.
- Provide leadership and management support to the GEMS 4 team based in Lagos in collaboration with and under the direction of the project Team Leader.
Remuneration
We welcome applications from suitable candidates based both inside and outside Nigeria. We offer an attractive, market linked salary and for applicants based outside Nigeria, assistance with housing, medical insurance and flights to and from your home country.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should:
Click here to apply online
Note: This position will involve extensive travel around Nigeria and a willingness on occasion to work outside of normal office hours including weekends.