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Job Summary

The Business & Investment Manager position will be integral to achieving the objectives of our livelihood and economic resilience project interventions. She/he will provide technical leadership, guidance in managing multiple programme interventions. The ideal candidate should be an expert in business and financial model development, business analysis and strategy development, investment & business development and possess solid project management experience.

Responsibilities

• Engage, collaborate, and coordinate with cross-cutting functions on intervention strategies and workplan.
• Liaise with key programme stakeholders and participate in multi-stakeholder platforms on programme’s strategic approach, achievements, and lessons.
• Develop and maintain close relationships with project partners (mostly businesses) while overseeing and coordinating the Implementation of project interventions.
• Work in close collaboration with the Program Manager to develop, realize, and communicate the programs strategic vision to internal and external stakeholders.
• Overseeing the activities of the Agribusiness and Value Addition officers in the project intervention design, implementation, monitoring and reporting of progress and outputs against the plan for their interventions.
• Establish and maintain relationships with strategic partners; DFIs and Commercial Banks to generate business.
• Stay abreast of country, sectoral, market and business developments/new projects.
• Review and assess financial viability, creditworthiness and developmental impacts of new interventions.
• Provide recommendations and suggestions to the Program Manager for any improvement of the work efficiency and productivity.
• In collaboration with the Program Manager, identify areas for new intervention, scale-up or scale- down. 
• Any other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications

• Qualified candidates should have a Bachelors or Masters degree in Accounting, Economics, Business Management, or any other related field.
• S/he should have a minimum of 6 years’ experience working on enterprise and agro-business development, designing and managing economic and incomes generating activities in developing countries, preferably in Northwest Nigeria.
• The Ideal candidate should demonstrate experience leading complex teams; strong business management and financial management skills, should also display excellent verbal and written skills.
• Previous experience with MCF funded projects is an added advantage.
• Superior project management and time management, organizational and planning skills.
• Excellent analytical, technical and conceptual knowledge about management and grasp of business management principles and practices.
• Highly skilled in investment appraisal (with comprehensive feasibility study, proposal writing, etc.)
• Experiences working in incubation services for agro-businesses and agro-business development services management is highly preferred.

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