Deputy Project Manager (With Gender Expertise) at Sahel Capital

Profile

• 10 years experience in senior manager positions with agricultural projects involving smallholder farmers, including Northern Nigeria
• Experience in managing complex projects, reporting to donors, managing project administrative and financial data systems
• Experience in gender analysis and project gender equality and social inclusion strategising, providing project advice, training and coaching project staff
• Proven experience in motivating institutions, associations and companies to improve gender sensitive/transformative approaches, services and policies
• Experience with government agriculture extension and educational institutions will be an advantage
• Private sector experience will be an advantage, particularly in horticulture sector.

Key Tasks
Project management related:

• Supporting the project manager with strategic project planning
• Daily staff management, regular planning and reporting cycles, approval of budget and expenditures
• Manage the contracting, quality control and reporting of service providers
• Ensure networking and liaison with government agencies, associations and farmer organisations
• Ensure learning and adaptive management among the project team
• Assist project manager to represent the project in an external form.

Gender related:

• Lead GESI analysis & project GESI strategy development
• Conduct short trainings for staff on gender awareness and sensitive facilitation skills
• Strengthening gender responsive and transformative aspects of the project
• Support gender learning by the project
• Support MEL plan to properly capture gender outcomes and impacts
• Develop and disseminate stories of change to make gender outcomes insightful.