Manager, Technical Integration at Weatherford

About the Role

• The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is leading a multi-stakeholder consortium to implement an initiative, aiming to creating dignified and fulfilling work for Nigerian youth under 35 years across agrifood value chains. The programme specifically aims to reach and benefit young women, persons with disabilities and internally displaced persons.
• GAIN is seeking to recruit a Technical Integration Manager to lead and ensure seamless coordination across all the technical programme components from input and production to processing, logistics, marketing, financial inclusion, gender and safeguarding, and youth innovation. This role will be offered on a two (2) year fixed term contract, subject to securing the award and availability of funding. This role will be based in Abuja, Nigeria.

Key Responsibilities include

• Provide strategic technical leadership to harmonize the programme’s interventions across all thematic components i.e. inputs & production, processing & manufacturing, marketing & distribution, financial inclusion, youth enterprise and gender inclusion.
• Translate programme strategy and the Theory of Change into integrated, operational delivery frameworks across states and partners.
• Ensure technical coherence between production systems, processing, logistics, market access, financial inclusion, and youth enterprise support.
• Lead the development of integrated technical workplans that reflect interdependence across programme components.
• Provide matrix oversight and technical coaching to all programme component coordinators to enhance integrated delivery.
• Support high-level technical consortium discussions, ensuring the programme’s integrated delivery model is understood and upheld.

About you

• The ideal candidate should have extensive experience providing technical programme leadership integrating multisector interventions specifically in market systems, value chain development and agricultural transformation approaches. You should have deep understanding of how agricultural value chains work from farm to market.
• Excellent technical partnership management with private sector and government actors across agricultural value chains is required.
• Excellent project management skills are required to manage the multiple technical interventions to be implemented. You should possess strong people management skills with ability to lead and guide technical teams in field locations.
• A bachelor’s degree in agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, Rural Development or a related field is required as a minimum.