Deputy Team Leader - Propcom at Palladium Group

Project Overview and Role   

• Propcom Mai-Karfi is a DFID programme aimed at increasing incomes for the poor in Northern Nigeria through enhanced employment opportunities for increased employment and improved productivity in selected agricultural market systems in northern Nigeria.
• It now has a three-year extension to work in a reduced number of states from mid-2018 which now will focus in: Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, Gombe, Bauchi and Taraba, Kaduna, Kano and Jigawa states. Propcom Mai-karfi seeks to hire a dynamic Deputy Team Leader for the below role:

Role

• The Deputy Team Leader will be a part of the Senior Management team.
• S/he will be responsible for managing and coordinating the Technical Delivery of the Programme.
• The Deputy Team Leader will have the following broad areas of responsibility.

Responsibilities   
Primary Responsibilities:

• Strategic And Operational Planning:
• Supports in the preparation of the annual strategic plans; technical and operational work plans and budgets; staffing plans; performance  improvement plans and other plans as required;
• Accountable for the successful implementation of market development activities through the effective leadership and management  of the key Technical staff.

Programme Management:   

• Support in identifying potential new activities for the project, work with the Team Leader to drive forward innovative ideas in the project
• Monitor implementation  progress;  works to resolve issues,  manage and mitigates risk;  and escalates material  issues and risks as appropriate

Project Specific
Leadership:

• Contribute to the overall leadership of the programme as part of the senior management team,
• Support the Team Leader in providing leadership and guidance to the market group as a whole Ensure the ongoing professional  development  of Market Section  Managers, particularly in relation to business consulting skills and deal-making.

Performance Management, Training & Mentoring:

• Contribute to training needs assessment of market group team, developing and implementing performance improvement plans and on-the-job-training where appropriate.

Monitoring, Evidence & Learning:

• Provide timely and accurate reporting on market development activities, based on evidence of PM’s impact which also  promotes  learning across the Team and with wider stakeholders.

Market Development:

• Oversee and quality assure market development  activities to maximise impact, identify new sub-sectors for PM investment as necessary,
• Provide technical guidance to the Technical Team to ensure results are achieved.

Requirements   
Key Competencies and Professional Expertise Required:

• Successful track record in delivery of complex programmes,
• Excellent leadership,  representation  and organizational skills,
• Strong management and interpersonal skills,
• Financial acumen and the ability to interpret and analyse financial  / business reports and
• Excellent English language communication  skills and ability to work collaboratively across technical disciplines.

Essential qualifications:

• A minimum of 10 years’ relevant experience in agricultural, livestock and rural development, this experience can include working for an agribusiness, 
• Demonstrable experience delivering agricultural M4P programming,
• Relevant experience delivering development projects in Sub-Saharan Africa,
• Work experience in W. Africa and specifically Nigeria is preferred and
• A demonstrated understanding of Climate Smart Agriculture is preferred.

Desirable Attributes:

• Fluency in speaking and understanding Hausa is desirable,
• Recently work in a DFID Funded Programme and
• Experience, held key management staff member on a large agriculture development programme.