Jobs at TechnoServe

Job Summary:

Under the overall guidance of the Operations Coordinator and the direct supervision of the Project Admin for the program, the Driver demonstrates a client-oriented approach, a high sense of responsibility, courtesy, tact and the ability to work with people of different national and cultural backgrounds. His/her support of the project will be centered around reliable and safe driving services to SAY-WEE team members in Kano State or Lagos state, TNS employees, visitors and administrative services, as required, ensuring high accuracy of work.

Program/Practice/Department Overview:

The project seeks to address unemployment in Nigeria through four pathways namely: self-employment, micro and small growing business acceleration, job readiness and ecosystem development.  With a strong learning agenda, the project will pilot methodologies that drive behavior change and successfully link women and youth to relevant and lasting jobs. To achieve its objectives, the project will leverage existing infrastructure, institutions, and organizations where possible. It will also apply lessons learned from other initiatives in the entrepreneurial ecosystem support space by adopting multiple proven approaches. The design will follow a common set of principles, such as being market-driven to help entrepreneurs tap into high-growth sectors, build youth skills, and facilitate linkages to drive job placement for targeted youth.

Primary Functions & Responsibilities:

• Ensures provision of reliable and secure driving services by driving office vehicles for the transport of authorized personnel and delivery and collection of mail, documents and other items and meeting official personnel and visitors at various locations.
• Interpret travel policy and procedures, the Staff Rules, administrative circulars, financial regulations and rules on travel-related matters.
• Maintain and contribute to policy information on fleet management.
• Work within cost-saving methods through proper use of vehicle, accurate maintenance of daily vehicle logs, and provision of inputs to preparation of the vehicle maintenance plans and reports.
• Proper day-to-day maintenance of the assigned vehicle through timely minor repairs, arrangements for major repairs, timely changes of oil, check of tires, brakes, car washing, etc.
• Logs fuel consumption, maintenance etc.
• Work toward availability of required documents/supplies including vehicle insurance, vehicle logs, office directory, map of the city/country, first aid kit, and necessary spare parts. Maintain updated records at all times.
• With good knowledge of defensive driving, apply rules and regulations, internal and external policies.
• Provides physical labour services in the relocation of offices and staff moves and provides support for meetings and conferences.
• Be cordial and respectful to clients, visitors and colleagues.
• Tactfully and effectively deal with officials and visitors.
• Ensures steps required by rules, regulations and best practices are adhered to in case of an accident.
• Applies good judgment in the context of assignments given.
• Steady compliance with the policy in all conduct of activities.
• Provide basic security management support in applying innovative techniques to assess and mitigate risk, especially within the location of work.
• Provide other project-related support assistance as may be assigned Supervisor.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum relevant qualification from a secondary academic institution, National diploma or higher National Diploma in any Art or social science field.
• Valid Driver’s license.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in conducting liaison work with government, international agencies or NGOs with minimum 2 years of work experience as a driver in Kano State or Lagos state.
• Safe driving record.
• Knowledge of driving rules and regulations and skills in minor vehicle repair.
• Experience of driving in the northwest is an advantage.

Required Languages: Familiarity with the local language

Travel: Mostly within Kano state or Lagos state.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Duties require professional verbal and written communication skills and the ability to type.
• Residents of the Locations stated and environs are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office and telephone protocol.
• Knowledge of air, road, and fire safety programmes /systems and ability to assess risks and identify mitigation measures
• Ability to interpret travel policy and procedures, the Staff Rules, administrative circulars, financial regulations and rules on travel related matters

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Job Summary:

Reporting to the Program Manager and a dotted reporting line to the Senior Finance specialist, TechnoServe Nigeria, the Accounting Officer is a dynamic and agile position that will play a key role in providing accounting support for SAY-WEE project in an efficient and compliant manner and ensuring compliance to TechnoServe, donor and statutory policies, processes and regulations.

Primary Functions & Responsibilities:

Accounts Payable

• Review of procurement requests ensuring compliance with procurement policies, donor policies and country regulatory bodies
• Processing procurement approvals by raising payment vouchers and facilitating wire transfers
• Processing accurate and timely transaction information into TechnoServe’s accounting system. Checks and code expenditure (travel advances, imprest and purchase requisition)
• Maintain financial documents filing system both physical and electronic
• Work with the Country Controller to implement a grant tracking/monitoring system, monitoring grant expenditures in order to identify any irregularities.

Compliance

• Filling the FACE form for request and liquidation.
• Filing of all tax deductions and support obtaining of tax clearance certificate for the organization
• Keep up to date with regulatory changes
• Support audit both organization and project audit
• Work with Country Controller in ensuring compliance with Nigerian tax laws

Others

• Support in preparing schedules for monthly financial close for the SAY-WEE Project
• Review all reconciliations and ensure completeness and compliance for the SAY-WEE Project
• Support GL reconciliation for accuracy and early error detection
• Participate in internal and external audits by providing auditors with accounting documents as requested and provide explanation for audit queries
• Perform other related tasks in respect to achieving the above listed as may be assigned

Basic Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Economics or related field with minimum of 2 years’ experience, alternatively 4 years’ experience in the field of finance.
• Experience and conversant with UN Face form, expert in forecasting and liquidation.
• Advanced-level knowledge of Microsoft Excel, and basic functional knowledge of field accounting software packages.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with donor funded projects most especially the UN
• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks with competing deadlines

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong sense of collegiality, integrity, resourcefulness, and accountability for results
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• An ability to think critically and elevate risks to management
• A creative and entrepreneurial approach to resolving problems

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Number of positions: 7

Job Summary:

The Business Advisor will work with the Senior Enterprise Development Specialist to provide capacity building and aftercare coaching support to the project participants. S/he will facilitate business linkages, gather market intelligence and monitor performance. It should be understood that the tasks outlined below are the key responsibilities, but the employee will be expected to perform any tasks that are necessary within the context of the evolving needs of the project.

Primary Functions & Responsibilities:

• Area mapping, mobilization and recruitment of program beneficiaries at inception and in between cohorts using set criteria.
• Support the Senior Business Advisor and Project lead in developing the project work plan.
• Implement the digital strategy of the project and ensure adoption by the beneficiaries.
• Engage the beneficiaries consistently on the selected social media platform.
• Support beneficiaries' training sessions on the selected and agreed platforms as well as monitor attendance according to the program guidelines.
• Provide linkages support to the micro retailers including connection to financial institutions, suppliers and other ecosystem players according to the program guidelines.
• Conduct training of trainers (ToT) of instructors and monitor training delivery of the trained instructors
• Work with identified partners and participants during the aftercare phase.
• Identify with stakeholders and perform a thorough assessment (initial and subsequent) of existing and envisaged problematic situations and offer solutions.
• Support in all types of monitoring and evaluation activities, surveys and in reporting, weekly, monthly and in developing program success stories and lessons learnt.
• Follow and maintain the program work plan.
• Work closely with the Senior Enterprise Development specialist to ensure program deliverables are met through critical review of project activities in the field and eliminate any risks that may hinder effective implementation of the Project.
• Understand, respect and promote TechnoServe’s values, vision, and strategy in the implementation of assigned duties.
• Perform other duties in line with the evolving needs of the program.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Business Management, Marketing, Business Enterprise, or relevant Social Sciences/ Humanities related discipline with a minimum of 2 years’ experience working with rural communities and supporting micro, small growing businesses in Nigeria.
• Alternatively, 4 years’ experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of the micro, small and growing business environment in Nigeria.
• Ability to engage and advise a broad range of stakeholders, including senior management of private sector companies, community leaders, and others;
• Demonstrated experience in data collection and analyses.
• Demonstrated experience with digital training and delivery mechanisms.
• Demonstrated experience in report writing.

Required Languages: Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English with Proficiency in hausa or Yoruba

Travel: Long distance travel is not anticipated. Mostly travel to project sites.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experienced in writing excellent reports.
• Must have strong interpersonal skills.
• Proven skills with Microsoft Office software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). Knowledge in the use of Comcare, KoBoCollect will be an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English.

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Job Summary:

Under the overall guidance of the Senior MEL Specialist alongside the Program manager, the MEL Specialist will perform activities related to monitoring, evaluation and learning for the project, including organizing and implementing data collection and analysis for the project. He/she will serve as a point of contact for data collection and aggregation that supports project reporting and will provide inputs to inform project decision-making and adaptive management.

Primary Functions & Responsibilities:

The MEL specialist will support MEL implementation for the project, including:

• Coordinate data collection from primary data sources to final reporting and reporting against project performance indicators and emergent project information needs.
• Support application of qualitative and quantitative methods to inform knowledge gaps
• Contribute to the design of forms, surveys, and indices as well as the data management system
• Perform regular development of databases and dashboards
• Perform regular data quality assessments, data cleaning, and data analysis
• Conduct field visits to understand the context and identify additional data needs
• Provide ongoing technical assistance and training to project technical staff on their role in performing data collection, basic analysis, and data review and use.
• Coordinate the project’s learning agenda through data collection, analysis and reporting and in the mobilization of consultants and other experts for specific learning questions.
• Ensure that the project's monitoring system captures the impact of project activities on women and other Marginalized groups.
• Become familiar with applicable donor rules and regulations, including the donor’s evaluation guidelines and indicator handbook.
• Understand the specific MEL deliverables that the project is contractually responsible for, and manage their development.

Provide inputs to data-driven decision-making:

• Assist in the process of adaptive management in the project using project MEL data.
• Support the documentation of best practices and production of information to capture and share lessons learned.
• Support information flows across the implementation team and the sharing and analysis of new information.
• Actively engage with project staff on areas for course correction, serving as a collaborative and reflective source of information to inform project progress.
• Assist in the development of all project reports

Participate in the broader MEL ecosystem at TechnoServe:

• Attend capacity building meetings and other relevant events related to MEL as directed.
• Support access to and insight into the project’s MEL approach to facilitate the Regional MEL’s assessment of the project against organizational standards and annual impact reporting.
• Assist in the development of corporate measurement reports as required.

Basic Qualifications:

These are the requirements that any qualified candidate must meet. Typically includes

• Bachelor's Degree in Business management, Logistics, Project management, or other social sciences related discipline with at least 3 years’ experience (alternatively Master's Degree with 1 years’ experience) in monitoring and evaluation on  donor funded programming.
• Demonstrable critical skills in data collection, analysis and reporting, and performance monitoring of donor funded projects.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the enterprise development landscape in Nigeria.
• Experience utilizing M&E methods and methodologies (including qualitative, quantitative, and participatory methods as well as the use of causal logic in designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating projects).
• Ability to work in a multicultural context as a flexible and respectful team player.
• Proficient in MS Office: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel.

Preferred Qualifications:

Additional qualifications that would make a candidate more desirable.

• Experience working on FCDO/UN funded projects in Nigeria
• Has worked in project(s) with award over $1 million
• Experience working with an INGO
• Experience working on an entrepreneurship donor funded project

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Job Summary:

Reporting to the Program Manager and a dotted line reporting to the Operations lead, TechnoServe Nigeria. The Program Administrator is a dynamic and agile position that will play a key role in enabling the implementation of project activities in an efficient and compliant manner and ensuring the effective use of resources for maximum impact.

Primary Functions & Responsibilities:

Administration, logistics, and office management

• Perform procurement functions, ensuring procurement of goods and services in compliance with TechnoServe and FCDO policies and regulations and providing guidance to the project team on matters relating to procurement.
• Organizes end-to-end the logistics requirement of the project team, ensuring sound logistical arrangements are in place to support project implementation, including fleet and other resource management
• Coordinate project events and meetings, ensuring events such as training, workshops, conferences, and meetings are properly coordinated, managed, and executed.
• Ensure adherence of project activities and staff to the country safety and security plans
• Perform administrative tasks to ensure TechnoServe adheres to local legal and statutory requirements.
• Assume responsibility for document filing and develop office administrative procedures as required.
• Coordinate meetings with the project team, consultants, and country office staff.
• Support the drivers and office cleaners for optimum performance.
• Ensure all documents are filed and maintained for auditing purposes.
• Prepare accounts payable documents (e.g. invoices, payment requests) for approval.
• Perform any other related duties that may evolve from time to time.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, or other related field.
• Alternatively have at least 2 years of professional experience in responsibilities related to procurement, logistics, and general office administration.
• Advanced level knowledge of Microsoft Excel and basic functional knowledge of field accounting software packages.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with donor-funded
• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks with competing deadlines.
• Experience coordinating junior-level service-oriented staff and developing strong working relationships.

Required Languages: Proficiency in writing and spoken English

Travel: Minimal

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong sense of collegiality, integrity, resourcefulness, and accountability for results
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• An ability to think critically and elevate risks to management
• A creative and entrepreneurial approach to resolving problems