Project Officer – Business Development and Marketing at United Purpose (UP)

The Project Officer (PO) for Business Development & Marketing is responsible for ensuring the project develops robust, market-driven enterprise and community-driven cooperative structures that support local investment and innovation. The PO will implement market assessment, business mapping, and analysis, providing recommendations and guidance to entrepreneurs as well as facilitating market linkages with public and private sector actors.

Key Responsibilities:

Key responsibilities include (not limited to)

• Plan, design and ensure delivery of project activities in line with the Project Activity Implementation Plan (PAIP) and United Purpose’s Operations Guideline.
• Monitor and ensure planned activities are implemented as per PAIP and budget allocations.
• Engage directly with project stakeholders, including women’s clubs, PHCs, LGAs, private sector and health customers.
• Conduct trainings on business development and management for women’s club entrepreneurs.
• Support data gathering, management, and analysis to provide insight and learnings for informed programmatic decisions.
• Support PO – Gender and Community Health with health business plan development of women’s clubs and market linkages with PHCs.
• Support business plan development for digital health service delivery.
• Facilitate field teams and build network and work with local government authorities and line departments (such as health and agricultural facilities, etc.) market actors, and local community leaders, and other stakeholder counterparts to facilitate activities at community level.
• Provide strategic and technical support to field teams in ensuring timely implementation of activities around health, nutrition, WASH, agriculture, and strengthening capacity of women’s clubs.
• Provide strategic and technical support to field teams in strengthening capacity of Women Enterprise Groups.  
• Provide support to MEAL team (especially MEAL Coordinator) in tracking and monitoring progress, data collection, database administration, documentation of the project’s impacts and results, and M&E related coordination with counterparts, as required.
• Support the Project Manager in ensuring smooth management and implementation of the project, and team dynamic to achieve the project’s targets and purpose.
• Conduct regular visits to fields, documentation on field activities including project’s impacts and results, and submit timely reports to line manager.
• Other duties as assigned by the line manager and UP management.

Specific duties and responsibilities:

• Support women’s clubs to produce quality health and hygiene products
• Entrepreneur identification and women's club strengthening workshops (Vision Sessions, business development workshops etc).
• Design and implement the community-led market assessment in coordination with the project team.
• Targeted skills training on production, processing and marketing of identified products.
• Review policy regarding telemedicine service and reading glass through strategic meeting with relevant stakeholders.

Develop a health-focused social marketing strategy for women’s clubs that promotes products and services using digital tools & linked with government health programming

• Coordinate Field Facilitator activities around courtyard session formation and customer outreach.
• Organise training of women entrepreneurs on health & wellbeing promotion.
• Planning and monitoring of demonstrations on digital health resources.
• Facilitate coordination with PHCs and women’s clubs for health outreach and market linkage.

Project Management

• Plan, design and ensure delivery of project activities in line with the Project Activity Implementation Plan (PAIP)
• Support PO-Gender and Community Health on project implementation plan design, implementation, and review.
• Implement project activities according to individual work plan and building on project set objectives.

Knowledge management, monitoring and reporting

• Identify learnings from data review and analysis and make recommendations to the Project Manager regarding the PAIP.
• Develop monthly, quarterly and annual progress reports and report to Project Manager according to set format on the progress of work plan objectives and activities.
• Conduct periodic collaborative learning and adaptation meetings with stakeholders at LGA level.
• Document case studies/lessons learnt/change stories from beneficiaries as evidence to measure project impact
• Represent the learnings and project activities to colleagues in other RWE countries and participate in joint learning sessions.

5.     Finance & team management

• Oversee the activities of the Field Facilitators, providing guidance, mentorship, and direct support as required.
• Support the Field Facilitators in the realisation of their work plans through guidance, regular one to one meeting, joint field visits, mentoring and monitoring of their work plans.
• Participate in the establishment of a project procurement plan in compliance with project’s requirements and provide necessary follow-up.
• In coordination with Project Manager, Country Office Coordinator and Finance and Compliance Manager, ensure appropriate budget monitoring procedures are in place and contribute to timely financial reporting.

6.     Representation and Visibility

• Develop/maintain strong working relationships with different relevant stakeholders at community level.
• Communicate regular with partners and women’s clubs
• Ensure project material, project staff and partner’s staffs comply with donor’s visibility rules.
• Represent SHA/UP in external fora
• Promote positive communication about SHA/UP.

Key Relationships: Internal and External

Knowledge, Experience & other Requirements:

Education and other qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business Administration or any relevant social science subject.
• Skills on ICT operation, and proficiency in using MS Office
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Respect to cultural diversity and gender sensitivity
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Commitment to Safeguarding

Experience:

The successful applicant MUST have experience and skills in the following:

• At least 4 years’ working experience with INGO/NGO sector in the same or equivalent role.
• Micro, small, medium enterprise business plan development, implementation, monitoring, and analysis
• Community organising, particularly with women’s groups
• Market Systems Development (MSD) approach, market assessment design, implementation, and analysis
• Design and review of marketing materials for small businesses (social marketing is a plus)
• Working with women’s groups, savings group and businesses
• Community mobilization, advocacy and stakeholders’ management
• Very strong interpersonal skills and experience networking in the private sector
• Budget management, monitoring, and implementation
• Be willing to travel to the field
• Openness to learning
• Self-driven and a creative problem solver
• Strong communicator with good report writing skills
• Works well with a multi-cultural team
• Proficient in written and oral English
• Previous experience working with health-related enterprise, health system evaluations and/or design, digital health space and telemedicine is an added advantage

Skills:

• Excellent planning, coordination, and prioritisation skills.
• Strong facilitation, community implementation and interpersonal skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills- listening, presenting, discussing, reporting, putting views forward and negotiating with confidence.
• Adaptable and responsive disposition relative to the demands and operations of the project.

Language Requirements:

Written and oral proficiency in English and relevant local language (Tiv and pidgin) is a plus.