Mercy Corps Program Performance & Quality Director- Yola, Nigeria Jobs
Mercy Corps Program Performance & Quality Director- Yola, Nigeria Jobs
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Program / Department Summary
Feed the Future Nigeria Rural Resilience Activity (RRA) is a $30 million project with a life span of five years, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Mercy Corps is the prime implementer and in partnership with Save the Children International (SCI) and International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC).
General Position Summary
Working directly under the Managerial supervision, the EIF Coordinator will provide full time dedicated support to the management of Rural Resilience Activity’s Enterprise Investment Fund while adhering to compliance procedures related to finance, match/cost-share management and documenting, sub-awards, etc.
Essential Job Responsibilities
Work closely with the project team to conduct research and assessments to identify potential private sector, public and community-managed entities for partnership, including prioritizing the identification of under-represented groups such as women and youth.
Organize and conduct multi-stakeholder platforms to disseminate Rural Resilience Project’s Investment Fund opportunities to potential partners.
Lead the coaching and mentoring of shortlisted sub-award recipients in areas around business planning and risk management, financial modelling, cash flow planning, and business model.
Support the Manager to set up filing and record-keeping systems to ensure all grant documents are properly filed, including financial and program reports as articulated in the Rural Resilience Activity’s Innovation Fund and Mercy Corps Sub-Awards Financial Management Policy.
Support the Investment Fund Manager in reviewing sub-award applicants’ budgets and budget narratives for completeness, cost realism and compliance to USAID regulations, including ensuring all components of the Investment fund are compliant with USAID and MC regulations, all sub-grantees are complying with the procedures in the RRA Innovation Fund Manual and Mercy Corps Sub-Awards Financial Management Policy, and that the annexes are fully utilized.
Understand the key elements of a successful investment, and support the Manager to develop tactical and strategic plans for the fund including ensuring that the investment fund supports activities across the key sectors that the project is targeting and does not crowd out financial markets and actors, rather helps them to flourish.
This list is not exhaustive as tasks will be performed as assigned.
People Management:
Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.
Promote accountability, communicate expectations, and provide constructive feedback via regular performance reviews.
Provide team members and sub-awardees with information, tools, and other resources to improve performance and reach objectives.
Influence and Representation:
Support, identify, build and manage collaborative partnerships with consortium partners, sub-grantees, donors, local governments and other stakeholders.
Communicate effectively and build consensus to ensure overall project targets and donor obligations are met.
Organizational Learning:
As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members
to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Investment Fund Interns on Rural Resilience Activity and other Mercy Corps Sub-awards and Compliance Interns
Accountability:
Reports Directly to EIF manager Manager
Works Directly with Program Team, Finance and Operations, Human Resources.
Knowledge and Experience
Masters’ degree or equivalent in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business Administration, or Bachelors’ degree with 7 years of relevant work experience.
Minimum of 5 years experience in enterprise development; investment management; impact investments and working in partnership with private sector actors, civil society organizations and public sector ministries, departments and agencies.
Good understanding of facilitation approaches including coaching, relationship building, communicating, open and willing to work on new initiatives
S/he should also have a basic understanding of the concept of triple line business modelling (commercial, social and environment impact models) and concepts around inclusive business models.
Must have a good understanding of impact investment, planning and analysis, marketing strategy development, distribution of products to the last mile-consumers and general business system operations management.
3-5 years of sub-award management on international donor-funded programs e.g. USAID, DFID, EU, with USAID program experience being a significant advantage and preferred.
Demonstrated competency with computerized G-Suite and Microsoft Office applications.
Proven skills in organizational and business capacity assessments, strategic planning, and business development including developing financial models and business plans, as well as proven practical and theoretical understanding of the project management cycle.
Demonstrated experience and ability to professionally and appropriately represent the organization and negotiate and defend Mercy Corps’ interests with a diverse range of international and local organizations and other groups.
Excellent negotiation, consensus building, verbal and written communication, organizational and prioritization skills, ability to multi-task, support and/or fill multiple positions at one time, and work comfortably with an ethnically diverse staff in a very sensitive environment.
Demonstrated attention to detail and ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work both independent of supervision and cooperatively with team members.
Fluency in spoken and written English required.
Knowledge of Hausa and other local dialects such as Fulfulde and Kanuri is an advantage.
How to Apply
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