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  • Posted: Feb 7, 2022
    Deadline: Feb 10, 2022
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    Nuru Nigeria is a locally Led NGO with affiliates in the US, Kenya, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. Nuru equips local leaders with tools and knowledge to lead their communities out of extreme poverty by integrating impact programs that address the most prevalent and fundamental challenges of extreme poverty around four areas of need: Hunger, Inability to Cope with Financial Shocks, Preventable Disease and Death, Lack of Access to Quality Education for Children.
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    Cooperative and Market System Coordinator

    Job Code: NNJ.2022.02
    Location: Yola, Adamawa State -NN Administrative Office
    Career Level: Mid-Level
    Terms and conditions: The appointment will be for a 12 month period, renewable
    based on funding and performance.
    Number of Job Opening: 1
    Start Date: As soon as possible

    Organization Background:
    Nuru Nigeria is a local NGO with affiliates in the US, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Our mission is to build resilience corridors of strong, locally owned farmer cooperatives driving profitable livelihoods in vulnerable communities of the Northeast. Nuru Nigeria prioritizes the smallholder farmers it serves and works to cultivate lasting meaningful choices through a community led, community driven and community sustained livelihood programs across the agriculture value chain. Kindly See attached correct
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    Position Summary:
    The Cooperative and Market System Coordinator will be responsible for leading the development and execution of Nuru Nigeria’s long term cooperative strategy with a
    view to establishing sustainable, profitable farmer organizations and creating value for cooperative members. The coordinator will work closely with the management
    committees and employees of Nuru-supported farmer organization cooperatives to guide all day-to-day management decisions and co-create the development of the
    cooperatives’ long and short-term plans. The Cooperative and Market System Coordinator will support NN field staff on training and coaching of Nuru-supported
    FOs. The coordinator acts as a direct liaison between the leadership of the cooperatives and management of Nuru Nigeria. This position will also lead Nuru
    Nigeria’s financial inclusion strategy, including the provision of digital financial services for Nuru- supported FOs and members.

    Reporting and Supervision:
    The Cooperative and Market System Coordinator will temporarily report to the Executive Director.
    Job Responsibilities:

    • Oversee cooperative business and operation planning to ensure efficiency, quality, service, and cost-effective management of resources.
    • Plan, develop, and implement strategies for generating resources and revenues.
    • Work closely with the Executive Director to implement Nuru Nigeria’s cooperative development strategy.
    • In collaboration with the Executive Director, develop a sustainable and formal strategy of coordinating farmer organization/cooperatives activities.
    • Grow and coach the (management) team to equip them to run the business in the future.
    • Together with the Training and Extension Coordinator, will work to support the mainstreaming of NN programs through the Farmer Organization
    • In collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, establish yearly cooperative assessment protocols that expand on an existing relationship with SCOPE insight and identify cooperative profitability measurement plans.
    • Develop and deliver a concise, realistic, and efficiently sequenced digital financial inclusion standard operating procedure that can support Nuru
    • Nigeria’s scaling ambitions.
    • Support and oversee the day-to-day cooperative activities
    • Assess the principal risks of the cooperatives and to ensure that these risks are being monitored and managed.
    • Oversee the detailed operations of the cooperative, within the policies established by the leadership, and recommends changes and additions to the management when necessary.
    • Maintain, and revise, as necessary, an adequate bookkeeping and accounting
    • system for the farmer organisations that can be managed by the cooperatives for sustainability.
    • Furnishes the organisation with information needed for long range planning of the farmer organisations.
    • Responsible for implementing all cooperative strategies in consultation with the management committee and Nuru Nigeria.
    • Facilitate the management committees members in collecting information concerning business alternatives, synthesising the information, and evaluating it for decision making.
    • Assist in management of crop aggregation, commercialization and market linkages.

    Job Requirement:

    • MS/MS preferred, BA/BSc required in Economics, Agric-Economics and
    • Extension, Accounting, Business Administration or other relevant agriculture or social science fields.
    • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in cooperative business development at a management level, or similar work in business or organizational development.
    • Previous experience in the development sector, especially in NGOs, preferred.
    • Experience with financial inclusion programs in rural environments
    • Strong record keeping/cooperative accounting experience
    • Candidates with leadership and project management experience preferred
    • Experience implementing gender mainstreaming into programming will be an advantage.
    • Strong strategy-building and critical thinking skills.
    • Desire to succeed and continually improve performance
    • Team player with positive attitude and sense of humour
    • Flexibility in a fast-paced, constantly changing work environment
    • Good communication and public speaking skills
    • Ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision
    • Demonstrated ability to operate in both office and field settings.
    • Excellent computer applications skills.
    • Speaks, reads, and writes fluently in English and Hausa required. Knowledge of the operational area and local language. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

    Nuru Nigeria Offers:

    • Salary is competitive depending on qualifications, skills and experience.
    • Positive atmosphere of dynamism and motivated team setting.
    • Atmosphere of a forefront professional and flexible NGO with a unique new development approach.
    • Annual, Maternity and Paternity leave benefits.
    • Transport costs and communication allowance.
    • 13th Month Salary
    • Training and capacity building program and intensive mentorship by expat team.
    • Life Insurance covering accident, disability and related benefits
    • Health Insurance covering employee and family.
    • Pension benefits.
    • Atmosphere of diversity committed to providing equal employment opportunity,
    • forbidding discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national or ethnic origin, age and differently able, with respect to policies and visions.
    • Other Labor best practices apply.

    Non-discriminatory employment clause:
    Applicants will not be discriminated against on the basis of ethnicity, colour, gender, religion, socio-economic status, age, disability or health status. The management of
    Nuru Nigeria reserves the right to verify all of the applicant's information and conduct background checks on shortlisted candidates including reaching out to his/her previous employer. Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Women are highly recommended to apply.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to:  recruitment.nurunigeria18@gmail.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

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