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The AECF is a development institution that supports businesses to innovate, create jobs, and leverage investments and markets to create resilience and sustainable incomes in rural and marginalized communities in Africa. It provides concessional capital, technical assistance, and support to the wider enabling environment for emergent and scaling SMEs. Over...
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The Programme
This is a five-year integrated investment initiative intended to support female entrepreneurship in value chains where women predominate principally in climate smart agriculture by increasing investment in innovative and climate smart solutions, thereby increasing their economic resilience in a changing climate. It will address systemic challenges facing women around access to finance, technical and business competence, inequality impacts of climate change and discriminatory gender norms whilst leading to sustained increase in incomes for resource constrained women farmers. The interventions include providing- grant financing to women owned or led SMEs and women’s co-operatives as well as grants to stimulate loans to women from financial institutions. The provision of matched grant funding will enable women to expand their business operations in ways that they could not otherwise do because of the lack of access to the formal financing system.
Additionally, the programme will provide technical assistance to women owned or led SMEs and women’s co-operatives that is an essential complementary component to finance, addressing low levels of business knowledge and capacity as well as the introduction of innovative concepts such as climate smart agriculture. The programme will operate across Kano Region in northern Nigeria offering sustainable demand driven market system based and climate smartsolutions and managed by a team operating from Kano with a range of partners.
The Role
The Programme Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day management and implementation of the programme work plan, including direct supervision of up to six programme staff. The Programme Manager will work closely with the Head of Programmes - Agribusiness and coordinate between AECF teams, relevant regional and national government institutions, partner organizations, and other stakeholders to ensure the goals and milestones of the programme are realized. The position holder will lead on the technical delivery of the project and field operations support – as well as be the principal contact for all stakeholders. The position holder will be based in Kano and will be expected to travel to the field to visit the various programme stakeholders. He/she must ensure overall employee satisfaction and productivity, to deliver strategic and operational excellence.
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