Director of Finance and Investments, Agricultural Competitiveness - Nigeria at Palladium Group

Duration: 5 years

Project Overview and Role

• Palladium is recruiting for the anticipated USAID-funded Nigeria Agriculture Competitiveness project.
• The goal of the project is to create a catalytic investment mechanism which links smallholder farmers to the private sector and to create a positive business enabling environments for thriving agribusiness sector.

Purpose of Position

• Palladium seeks a Director of Finance and Investments for the USAID-funded Nigeria opportunity in Agriculture Competitiveness.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that innovation funds identify and catalyze new investment in Nigeria agribusiness and agriculture value chain development.
• Liaises with the value chain development team to identify companies/enterprises with potential to contribute to a stronger Nigerian food system through provision of agriculture inputs, expanded processing and trade, linkages to post-harvest handling and storage; and promotion of domestic consumption of key value chains.
• Develops a systems to track social impact of the agriculture fund on key target populations;
• Oversees a grants management team, ensuring that grants are in compliance with USAID and Palladium policies and procedures, and ensuring that grants manual and related program documents are compliant with USAID regulations.
• Oversees development of a grant tracking system to ensure the timely and correct execution of all grant agreements
• Maintains communication with recipients to ensure smooth administration of sub instruments;
• Reviews recipient reports and documentation for compliance with agreement/sub-agreement terms and conditions

Requirements

• Ensures that innovation funds identify and catalyze new investment in Nigeria agribusiness and agriculture value chain development.
• Liaises with the value chain development team to identify companies/enterprises with potential to contribute to a stronger Nigerian food system through provision of agriculture inputs, expanded processing and trade, linkages to post-harvest handling and storage; and promotion of domestic consumption of key value chains.
• Develops a systems to track social impact of the agriculture fund on key target populations;
• Oversees a grants management team, ensuring that grants are in compliance with USAID and Palladium policies and procedures, and ensuring that grants manual and related program documents are compliant with USAID regulations.
• Oversees development of a grant tracking system to ensure the timely and correct execution of all grant agreements
• Maintains communication with recipients to ensure smooth administration of sub instruments;
• Reviews recipient reports and documentation for compliance with agreement/sub-agreement terms and conditions
• Nigerian Nationals Strongly Encouraged to Apply