Team Leader/Capacity Development Specialist at American University of Nigeria (AUN)

Location: Mubi, Adamawa
Department: Atiku Center - Program.
Employment Status: Full Time (Project)
Duration: Twenty-Two (22) Months

Description
Building Resilience Through Sustainable Agriculture Phase 2 Project:

• In collaboration with a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), the American University of Nigeria, Yola, is seeking for prospective candidates for the project funded by European Union and German Government through GIZ (Journey to Self-Reliance - JSR). The position is a local position and is open to indigenous and/or legal residents of Nigeria.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the efficiency and management of Office Operations and timely delivery of programs support.
• Ensures compliance to all work ethics, resources management and provide exemplary leadership.
• Coordinate timely programs reporting working with officers and other specialists.
• Organize and oversee the implementation of the project training/capacity building, in line with the priorities identified by the project and partner institutions.
• Ensure the inclusion and consistency of capacity development plans in the overall project work plan and deliverables.
• Identify and organize collaborative partnership with trainers/consultant or capacity development experts, including professionals from GIZ programs, to meet the demand and objectives of the project.
• Facilitate the network of capacity building experts on training and mentoring, in consultation with the Project Director.
• Ensure coherence and synergies of the project’s intervention with the overall strategy of JSR in terms of capacity building and high performance.
• Initiate, lead and follow relevant partnerships with Ministry of Agriculture, AADP and GIZ, in order to support and pursue sustainable trainings for the targeted departments/units.
• Ensure the sharing of experiences and dissemination of good practice in capacity development.
• Design and develop training modules to support and respond to project needs.
• Develop a range of specific sustainable training on Agricultural produce value addition and emerging markets approaches and strategies.
• Coordinate/align training modules to direct beneficiaries of the project "learning by doing";
• Organize, implement and monitor other capacity utilization programs especially coaching and mentoring.

Position Requirements

• MA/MS in Pure and or Social Sciences and years’ experience in project management,
• 3 years’ experience managing office and people management.
• Great communication and report writing skills.
• Have experience in the development of training materials and delivering trainings.
• Average knowledge of project finance and procurement processes.
• Excellent knowledge of agriculture value chain.
• High level of computer literacy (primarily in Microsoft Office packages).
• Fluent in Local languages and English.

Description of Benefits
Salary and benefits are commensurate with experience and job classification as approved by the Project.