Job Vacancies at TechnoServe

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Project Manager and collaborating with the Operations coordinator/designate, TechnoServe Nigeria, the Project Administrator is a dynamic and agile position that will play a key role in enabling the implementation of project operational activities in an efficient and compliant manner while 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 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, resourced, 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 develops 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.
• Arrange meeting rooms, draft and disseminates meeting agendas, prepare briefing notes, and where necessary take meeting minutes which may include preparing and disseminating materials as instructed.
• Perform any other related duties that may evolve from time to time.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Logistics, Economics, or other related field.
• Alternatively, 2 years of professional experience in responsibilities related to procurement, logistics, and general office administration.
• Good 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 written and spoken English. Knowledge of local language is a plus.

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.

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Job Summary:

Working closely and being directly supervised by the Senior Business Specialist, the Business Advisor will play a critical role in the USAID and Coca-Cola's Nigeria Plastic Solutions Alliance Program (NPSAP) by overseeing advisory services and conducting all program activities and training services to beneficiaries, while also facilitating formal and informal networking and linkages with various stakeholders. S/he will facilitate business linkages, gather market intelligence, and monitor performance. The tasks outlined below are the key responsibilities of the business advisor, however, 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:

Project Inception Phase

• Provide support to short-term consultants during market analysis study which will include value chain mapping, enabling environment mapping, gender and social inclusion analysis.
• Conduct recruitment/enrollment of program beneficiaries using predetermined criteria.
• Assist the Senior Business Specialist and Project Lead in developing the detailed project work plan.

Project implementation

• Lead the implementation of the project's digital strategy, ensuring beneficiary adoption and engagement.
• Facilitate training sessions for beneficiaries, monitoring attendance and engagement to ensure adherence to program guidelines.
• Provide crucial linkages between plastic collectors and aggregators, and between aggregators and recyclers.
• Monitor the recruited plastic collectors, aggregators, and recyclers to ensure they are operating within the terms and conditions of the program’s agreement.
• Participate in monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities, contributing to the program's reporting and knowledge sharing.
• Ensure adherence to the program work plan, identifying and mitigating risks to successful project implementation.
• Collate feedback from the program beneficiaries through the program’s feedback mechanism.
• Embody and promote TechnoServe’s values, vision, and strategy, ensuring these are integrated into all program activities.
• Perform other duties in line with the evolving needs of the program.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree/HND in Business Management, Marketing, Business Enterprise, Project Management, or relevant Social Sciences/ Humanities related discipline with at least 3 years’ experience working with communities living on less than $2 a day in educating clients/beneficiaries on business development and marketing goals while nurturing relationship with relevant stakeholders. Alternatively, at least 1 year experience in similar field with a Masters degree.
• Demonstrated ability in working with small and growing businesses for at least 2 years post NYSC as a plus.
• Proven experience in stakeholder engagement, data collection and analysis, digital training delivery, and report writing.
• Ability to engage and advise a broad range of stakeholders, including senior management of private sector companies, donor representatives, and others;
• Demonstrated experience in report writing.
• Experience in the waste management or recycling sector.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); familiarity with Comcare and KoBoCollect is advantageous.
• Must have strong interpersonal skills.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.