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Job Summary

• The Chief of Party (COP) will have overall responsibility for the Nigeria Resilience Activity.
• Responsibilities include meeting Activity objectives and deliverables while providing overall leadership in technical, administrative, operational, and management aspects.
• The COP will act as the primary relationship manager for the project with USAID/Nigeria, Government of Nigeria, partners and external stakeholders.

Specific Responsibilities

• Provide overall strategic guidance, leadership, management and general technical oversight of the entire Activity, with a strong focus on achieving defined results.
• Act as the key liaison with USAID, Government of Nigeria, all implementing partners and stakeholders involved with the program.
• Provide technical leadership and specific directions to design and implement streamlined interventions that enable households to break out of recurrent stress and crises and achieve results in accordance with FGN and donor standards.
• Represent the Activity and present its work nationally and globally to DDI leadership, the donor, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Lead, manage, supervise and mentor Activity staff and consortium partners.
• Ensure high-quality monitoring and evaluation of Activity impact and timely submission of donor reports and deliverables.
• Ensure compliance with DDI and USAID policies and requirements

Key Qualifications and Requirements

• A Master’s Degree or higher in Agriculture, Economics, or Business Administration;
• A minimum of ten (10) years of significant in-country experience and of being a Chief of Party in managing large (preferably $5 million and above) livelihood, agricultural development activities, with knowledge of resilience programming and preferrably the Nigerian context;
• At least five years of field-based work in a conflict-prone and/or active insurgency and banditry environment;
• Demonstrated ability to be collaborative across activities while utilizing strong communication and interpersonal skills, with evidence of the ability to productively interact with a wide range and levels of organizations (government, private sector, other activities, NGOs);
• Demonstrated capacity to advance collaborative learning and adaptive management, including but not limited to collaboration and coordination with other FTF and donor-funded activities.
• Demonstrated capacity to manage complex teams, including problem solving skills, and capacity to meet deadlines and deliver quality deliverables to meet objectives; and
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills (proficiency in English).
• Ability to communicate in Hausa language is a plus.

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Job Summary

• The Market Systems and Resilience Specialist will provide strategic guidance in market systems/value chains across the Activity.
• S/he will lead the program’s efforts to invest sustainably in agri- business particularly targeting smallholder farmers.

Specific Job Responsibilities

• Provide overall strategic guidance and leadership on viable value chains across the program; ensuring thorough assessments and analysis of commercial viability (return on investment, Cost- benefit, profit margins, cash-flow requirements, supply and demand modelling) of potential value chains before investment.
• Facilitate the consortium to achieve high levels of program quality through technical service provision in close collaboration with the COP/DCOP.
• Working jointly with other stakeholders and relevant government ministries and department agencies (MDAS), develop sustainable intervention strategies for prioritized value chains.
• Work closely with other project managers to demonstrate and promote commercial viability of selected value chains and agribusinesses.
• Liaise with private sector partners to promote sustainable commercial markets for prioritized value chains.
• Provide technical support to all donor’s reporting requirements (including quarterly, semi-annual and annual technical reports) in a timely manner in coordination with the COP/DCOP.
• Support the adoption of appropriate technologies in agricultural production and post-harvest processing to reduce costs and increase commercial viability of selected value chains.
• Ensure compliance with DDI and USAID policies and requirements.

Key Qualifications and Requirements
The Market Systems and Resilience Specialist must have the following skills and experience:

• A Master’s Degree in Agriculture, Economics, or Business Administration;
• Minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience with USG or other similar development projects focused on market systems, resilience, and livelihood development, preferably with an understanding of the Nigerian context including gender and youth issues;
• Spoken and written proficiency in English;
• Demonstrated ability to work and coordinate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders, including national and local government, donors, community-based organizations, and the private sector;
• Strong technical experience in market system approach to development;
• Skills in resilience programming and strategies for developing household and market-systems
• Demonstrated ability to work and coordinate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders, including national and local government, donors, community-based organizations, and the private sector;
• Strong technical experience in market system approach to development;
• Skills in resilience programming and strategies for developing household and market-systems resilience especially in conflict settings;
• Skills in livelihood promotion focused on human and social capital, but also including aspirations for improving livelihood prospects and the confidence to take on prudent risks to achieve improved livelihoods;
• Expertise in programming that enables the inclusion of women, men, and youth in livelihood and market systems development.

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