Full Time
Posted 3 years ago
JOB TITLE: Deputy Project Manager (With Gender Expertise)
JOB LOCATIONS: Kaduna and Kano
JOB DETAILS:
Profile
- 10 years experience in senior manager positions with agricultural projects involving smallholder farmers, including Northern Nigeria
- Experience in managing complex projects, reporting to donors, managing project administrative and financial data systems
- Experience in gender analysis and project gender equality and social inclusion strategising, providing project advice, training and coaching project staff
- Proven experience in motivating institutions, associations and companies to improve gender sensitive/transformative approaches, services and policies
- Experience with government agriculture extension and educational institutions will be an advantage
- Private sector experience will be an advantage, particularly in horticulture sector.
Key Tasks
Project management related:
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- Supporting the project manager with strategic project planning
- Daily staff management, regular planning and reporting cycles, approval of budget and expenditures
- Manage the contracting, quality control and reporting of service providers
- Ensure networking and liaison with government agencies, associations and farmer organisations
- Ensure learning and adaptive management among the project team
- Assist project manager to represent the project in an external form.
Gender related:
- Lead GESI analysis & project GESI strategy development
- Conduct short trainings for staff on gender awareness and sensitive facilitation skills
- Strengthening gender responsive and transformative aspects of the project
- Support gender learning by the project
- Support MEL plan to properly capture gender outcomes and impacts
- Develop and disseminate stories of change to make gender outcomes insightful.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Curriculum Vitae to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
Note
- Expected starting date of the project is quarter four of 2021 and is contingent on donor funding
- Women are strongly encouraged to apply.
Deadline: May 20, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Project Management |