Project Coordinator at Oxfam

Reporting: This position reports to the Country Director

Job Level: C2 national

Main Goal of the Job

• Managing the realization of project goals of the "Work in Progress!" in Nigeria, the Project Coordinator leads the project in terms of thematic expertise on SME development and youth employment.
• The Project Coordinator will work together with the Project Officer, the Finance Officer and a Communication Officer in the Nigeria office, and also with the Global Project manager, the SME expert both based in Oxfam Novib, The Hague office.

The Project Management Main Tasks

• Realize (sub-) goals of the Work in Progress! project, with a focus on skills building, startup acceleration, SME development and influencing.
• Manage partnerships with all Work in Progress! partners in Nigeria and on international level.
• Organize meetings between partners to stimulate cooperation in order to improve impact.
• Coordinate activities of partners and link different activities to improve impact.
• Coordinates also with investors to link them up to SMEs and startups part of Work in Progress! project.
• Actively participate and share his/her expertise in Work in Progress!; with other countries and colleagues.
• Contribute to future programme development youth employment, contributing to fundraising of (new/continuation of the) projects in this respect.
• Share knowledge and produce knowledge materials about the own field of expertise to contribute to the development and increased programme quality of the project.
• Profile the project externally, builds bridges to financial intermediates to ensure finance for SMEs and youth entrepreneurs and advocates for a more enabling environment for SME development and youth entrepreneurship.

Requirements for the Job

• Have a Master's degree in the relevant field, given the startup and SME development component in the project preferably an MBA in business development;
• Have demonstrable experience of 3-5 years in project management focusing on working with youth project or in project providing Business Support to SMEs
• Expertise and knowledge on youth employment and empowerment (Including promoting youth participation) works in your advantage
• Being an innovator and connector; experience with multi-stakeholder initiatives, multi country programmes and thematic advisory support in that context.
• Have a result oriented approach.
• Entrepreneurial mind-set, risk-taking and able to co-create, negotiate, and develop with Country Offices, partners, and alliances.
• Have excellent written & spoken English skills; overall good communication skills & experience in external profiling.
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills with ability to build good relations both internally and externally
• Well-developed facilitation and training skills are an advantage
• Self-reliant, flexible and able to handle pressure
• Able and willing to travel regularly and for long duration for project development and/or implementation.