Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
Non-profit + 1 more
Description
About you
- Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Development Studies, Management, Economics, or related field.
- Postgraduate qualification in Project Management, Agribusiness, or Development Planning (desirable)
- The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong background in project coordination with experience managing large-scale agricultural, livelihoods, or private-sector development programmes across multiple states or regions. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership and programme coordination skills, experience supervising diverse teams, and a proven ability to manage partnerships with, project implementing partners, government, private sector, and donor agencies.
- You should possess excellent knowledge of donor-funded project management, financial compliance, and risk management, as well as experience implementing multi-component projects focused on production, market access, and inclusion. Strong planning, analytical, organizational, and stakeholder management skills, alongside a solid understanding of agrifood and market systems approaches, are essential for success in this position.
Responsibilities
- 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.
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