About you

• Provide field oversight and coordination of the project implementation across Kano and Kaduna States, ensuring coherence with the ENSAND project strategy and overall GAIN programme objectives.
  
• Coordinate operational planning and performance tracking across Kaduna and Kano, aligning workplans, budgets, and designated deliverables with the overall ENSAND project priorities.
  
• Support harmonization of partner activities, ensuring consistency in implementation, data reporting, and quality assurance.
  
• Coordinate inter-state collaboration and cross-learning to drive adaptive programming and knowledge exchange.
  
• Ensure execution of core programme components (Inputs, Processing, Marketing, Financial Inclusion, Gender, Innovation) within Kano and Kaduna State, ensuring integration and synergy.
  
• Facilitate regular review meetings, joint planning sessions, and reflection workshops to strengthen accountability and shared ownership.
  
• Monitor progress against performance targets (e.g., job creation, enterprise growth, productivity outcomes) and address implementation bottlenecks.
  
• Ensure technical standards, gender inclusion, and safeguarding are embedded across all state-level operations.
  
• Conduct routine field visits, spot checks, and quality audits to assess partner performance and compliance.
  
• Support the implementation of the Programme Quality Framework and learning systems within partners and state teams.
  
• Identify operational risks and implement mitigation measures in collaboration with the project Quality and Risk management teams.
  
• Serve as GAIN’s focal representative within the designated States, managing relationships with state governments, implementing partners, private sector actors, and development agencies.