Our goal is to help families achieve living incomes, which will allow them to feed their families daily; educate all their children; and have proper housing, water, hygiene and other essential resources.
- Experience 15 years
- Location Lagos
- Job Field Project Management
Job Description
Essential Character Traits
- Detailed-oriented, self driven, action oriented, team player.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DELIVERABLES
A. Program Quality Initiatives (45%)
- Advise countries on Market Systems, Access to Finance, Corperatives & Off-takers capacity/capability building and Value Chain analysis to inform co-design relationships for in-country signature programming.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of strategies, standards, tools and best practice in Program Quality, that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments.
- Provide technical advise to Country Program teams, remotely and on-site, in strategic planning and how best to apply standards, best practice, partnership principles, processes and tools, to ensure high-quality implementation of signature programs.
- In consultation with Country Directors and Country Signature Program Technical Leads, creatively design initiatives that uphold and improve program quality, innovation and learning on signature programs.
- Provide technical process advisory for the preparation, design, submission and approval of project concepts and full-fledged proposals. Act as a second line of defence for in-country technical writing on proposal development, advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into Heifer’s approach.
- Roll out capacity strengthening initiatives in Program Quality for staff and partners, develop learning and training strategies and agenda, conducting trainings and workshops.
- Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learnt and best practice for specific projects, to facilitate improvement in decisions.
- Enable strong relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions, towards enhancing Program Quality.
- Monitor and provide feedback on Program Quality through regular team meetings, field visits and regular communication.
B. Partnerships and Capacity Improvement (30%)
- Ensure adherence to set compliance standards within Heifer and donor program and project guidelines and standards, including transparency, policy compliance, accountability, communication with HQ, donors and external constituencies.
- Enable new partnerships and nurture existing ones.
- Develop and adopt standardized approaches, practices, tools and measurements in partnership and capacity strengthening.
- Support relevant country program, Regional and HQ staff in the development of comprehensive plans and materials, for the development and implementation of capacity strengthening strategies in the Signature Program area.
- On a delegated authority, ensure country programs monitor and evaluate partnership and capacity strengthening activities and initiatives.
- Identify and ensure the creation of strong inter-organizational networks and efforts to strengthen the capacities of local partners.
- Represent Heifer Africa in external professional fora and with donor agencies in support of resource acquisition for capacity building.
C. Strengthen Core Global Operating System (20%)
- Provide support to country offices to ensure compliance with Heifer International policies and procedures and other accountability standards through trainings, event participation and field visits.
- Liaise with departments at HQ on behalf of the country programs and the Africa Regional Program, with regard to Signature Programs.
- Ensure Signature Program proposals and concept notes are entered into HQ tracking systems, to avoid delay in activation.
- Support the adequate development, implementation, evaluation and systematization of signature programs implemented by country programs.
- Review signature program and field office monitoring and evaluation reports and make recommendations.
- Maintain Signature Program files and documents.
- D. Any Other Assigned Function (5%)
- May perform other job-related duties as assigned.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree plus ten (10) to fifteen (15) years’ job-related experience.
Preferred Requirements
- Master’s degree preferred.
- At least seven (7) years in technical signature programming leadership.
- At At least five (5) years in management.
Most Critical Proficiencies
- Knowledge of strategic planning, program and project development and implementation processes (including planning, monitoring and evaluation).
- Knowledge and work experience in agriculture and community development in a developing country context (market systems, value chains, access to market, access to finance, etc).
- Excellent knowledge on monitoring and evaluation of programs and projects.
- Excellent organizational and administrative skills including strong attention to detail.
- Knowledge of grant acquisition and management.
- Basic knowledge of finance controls and systems.
- Proficiency in basic statistics sufficient to analyze data.
- Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, database and electronic mail software (Microsoft preferred).
- Strong English language skills – oral and written.
Essential Job Functions and Physical Demands
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work cooperatively, tactfully and diplomatically with a culturally diverse group of people.
- Ability to produce accurate documents in a well-designed and attractive format with impeccable attention to detail.
- Constant face-to-face, telephone and electronic communication with colleagues and the general public.
- May require constant sitting; working at a computer for extended periods of time.
- Ability and willingness to extensively travel 30% of the time both domestically and internationally.
- Ability to develop and present training materials.
- Ability to work with sensitive information and maintain confidentiality.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Heifer International on jobs.jobvite.com to apply
