Job Summary:
Under the overall guidance of the Program manager and a dotted to the Senior MEL Specialist, the MEL Specialist will perform activities related to monitoring, evaluation and learning for the project, including organizing and implementing data collection and analysis for the project. He/she will serve as a point of contact for data collection and aggregation that supports project reporting and will provide inputs to inform project decision-making and adaptive management.
Program/Practice/Department Overview:
The project seeks to address unemployment in Nigeria through four pathways namely: self-employment, micro and small growing business acceleration, job readiness and ecosystem development. With a strong learning agenda, the project will pilot methodologies that drive behaviour change and successfully link women and youth to relevant and lasting jobs. To achieve its objectives, the project will leverage existing infrastructure, institutions, and organizations where possible. It will also apply lessons learned from other initiatives in the entrepreneurial ecosystem support space by adopting multiple proven approaches. The design will follow a common set of principles, such as being market-driven to help entrepreneurs tap into high-growth sectors, build youth skills, and facilitate linkages to drive job placement for targeted youth.
Primary Functions & Responsibilities:
The MEL Specialist will support MEL implementation for the project, including:
- Coordinate data collection from primary data sources to final reporting and reporting against project performance indicators and emergent project information needs
- Support the application of qualitative and quantitative methods to inform knowledge gaps
- Contribute to the design of forms, surveys, and indices as well as the data management system
- Perform regular development of databases and dashboards
- Perform regular data quality assessments, data cleaning, and data analysis
- Conduct field visits to understand the context and identify additional data needs
- Provide ongoing technical assistance and training to project technical staff on their role in performing data collection, basic analysis, and data review and use
- Coordinate the project’s learning agenda through data collection, analysis and reporting and in the mobilization of consultants and other experts for specific learning questions
- Ensure that project’s monitoring system captures impact of project activities on women and other disadvantaged groups
- Become familiarized with the applicable donor rules and regulations, including the donor’s evaluation guidelines and indicator handbook
- Understand the specific MEL deliverables that the project is contractually responsible for, and manage their development
Provide inputs to data-driven decision-making:
- Assist in the process of adaptive management in the project using project MEL data
- Support the documentation of best practices and production of information to capture and share lessons learned
- Support information flows across the implementation team and the sharing and analysis of new information
- Actively engage with project staff on areas for course correction, serving as a collaborative and reflective source of information to inform project progress
- Assist in the development of all project reports
Participate in the broader MEL ecosystem at TechnoServe:
- Attend capacity-building meetings and other relevant events related to MEL as directed.
- Support access to and insight into the project’s MEL approach to facilitate the Regional MEL’s assessment of the project against organizational standards and annual impact reporting.
- Assist in the development of corporate measurement reports as required.
Basic Qualifications:
These are the requirements that any qualified candidate must meet. Typically includes
- Bachelor's Degree in Business management, agribusiness, project management, social sciences or related discipline with 3 years’ experience (alternatively Master's Degree + 1 years’ experience) in monitoring and evaluation with at least 1 year in donor funded programming.
- Experience utilizing M&E methods and methodologies (including qualitative, quantitative, and participatory methods as well as the use of causal logic in designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating projects).
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional qualifications that would make a candidate more desirable.
- Experience working on FCDO/UN funded projects in Nigeria.
- Has worked in project(s) with award over $1 million.
- Experience working with an INGO.
- Experience working on an entrepreneurship donor funded project.
- Demonstrable critical skills in data collection, analysis and reporting, and performance monitoring of donor funded projects.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of the enterprise development landscape in Nigeria.
- Ability to work in a multicultural context as a flexible and respectful team player.
- Proficient in MS Office: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel.
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Job Summary:
The main role of the Senior Enterprise Development Specialist reporting directly to the Program Manager contributes to the strategic priority of scaling up the impact of our work through the development of a strong and sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystem. Reporting to the Senior Program Manager, the Senior Enterprise Development Specialist will be responsible for ensuring that project participants have the knowledge and skills to develop and run successful enterprises, or take on decent employment. In close collaboration and coordination with the Project staff, he/she will ensure successful, innovative, efficient, and effective functioning of all entrepreneurship training and capacity building activities in the project through effective planning, and delivery of project activities in collaboration with other project team members towards achieving the common goal.
Program/Practice/Department Overview:
The project seeks to address unemployment in Nigeria through four pathways namely: self-employment, micro and small growing business acceleration, job readiness and ecosystem development. With a strong learning agenda, the project will pilot methodologies that drive behaviour change and successfully link women and youth to relevant and lasting jobs. To achieve its objectives, the project will leverage existing infrastructure, institutions, and organizations where possible. It will also apply lessons learned from other initiatives in the entrepreneurial ecosystem support space by adopting multiple proven approaches. The design will follow a common set of principles, such as being market-driven to help entrepreneurs tap into high-growth sectors, build youth skills, and facilitate linkages to drive job placement for targeted youth.
Primary Functions & Responsibilities:
Lead enterprise development activities under the guidance of the Project Manager. S/he will perform the following tasks;
- Identify entrepreneurs, lead identification and enrolment of qualified participants for the business acceleration track
- Coordinate a detailed market needs assessment that will identify the core areas, growth sectors, and components of the value chain with opportunities for entrepreneurship for women;
- Ensure quality delivery of entrepreneurship training and capacity building activities in the project, including adequacy and suitability of training modules, aftercare, and linkages;
- Work with consultant to develop the curriculum and includes a module on sustainable practices and ESG.
- Drive learning and knowledge training in the project;
- Supervise and support Business Advisors to ensure quality implementation of project activities;
- Ensure quality delivery of training of TVET instructors to achieve the objective of the project;
- Ensure that all project reports relevant to her/his area of focus are promptly produced and submitted to meet project targets;
- Ensure adequacy of the entrepreneurship school curriculum to be deployed by the project;
- Responsible for smooth implementation of the entrepreneurship activities and for providing the required relevant information to the monitoring and evaluation team for the effective compilation of results;
- Contribute to the programme team’s work on the timely and effective management and implementation of the project’s Enterprise Development activities;
Contribute to the preparation of high-quality progress reports, updates and communication products for the project
The incumbent of the position will uphold the non-discriminatory behavior and ensure that:
- Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions;
- Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of TechnoServe and UNICEF”;
- Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender are respected within all implementations including data production;
- Differentiated needs of women and men are considered;
- Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree with 5 years’ experience in Business Management, Agribusiness, Economics, or related field. Alternatively, Master's Degree with 3 years’ experience will be considered.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience with enterprise development, entrepreneurship training etc with special focus on micro-businesses, youth development, incubation/innovation, value chain or entrepreneurship is desirable.
- Experience should include displays of gender sensitivity and promotion of gender equality in all aspects of work.
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional qualifications that would make a candidate more desirable.
- Experience in a specific region/country or with a particular funder or donor
- INGO Sectoral experience.
- Professional experience with international donor projects in Nigeria would be an asset;
Required Languages Proficiency in English, Yoruba and Hausa
Travel moderate
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Sound knowledge of systems for gender mainstreaming and ability to apply to strategic and/or practical situation.
- Good leadership skills in commitment, excitement and ability to create new opportunities for the team.
- Good communication skills with ability to share ideas and positions.
- Ability to embrace complex challenges and opportunities for getting work done for timely delivery.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Good IT literacy, i.e., MS. Word, MS Powerpoint and MS Excel is required.
Supervisory Responsibilities – The successful candidate will supervise 5 Business Advisors.
Closing Statement:
This position is contingent upon full confirmation of award. We encourage all qualified individuals who share TechnoServe's vision of improving the lives of others through proven business solutions to apply.
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Job Summary:
Reporting to the Program Manager and a dotted reporting line to the Senior Finance specialist, TechnoServe Nigeria, the Accounting Officer is a dynamic and agile position that will play a key role in providing accounting support for SAY-WEE project in an efficient and compliant manner and ensuring compliance to TechnoServe, donor and statutory policies, processes and regulations.
Primary Functions & Responsibilities:
Accounts Payable
- Review of procurement requests ensuring compliance with procurement policies, donor policies and country regulatory bodies
- Processing procurement approvals by raising payment vouchers and facilitating wire transfers
- Processing accurate and timely transaction information into TechnoServe’s accounting system. Checks and code expenditure (travel advances, imprest and purchase requisition)
- Maintain financial documents filing system both physical and electronic
- Work with the Country Controller to implement a grant tracking/monitoring system, monitoring grant expenditures in order to identify any irregularities.
Compliance
- Filling the FACE form for request and liquidation.
- Filing of all tax deductions and support obtaining of tax clearance certificate for the organization
- Keep up to date with regulatory changes
- Support audit both organization and project audit
- Work with Country Controller in ensuring compliance with Nigerian tax laws
Others
- Support in preparing schedules for monthly financial close for the SAY-WEE Project
- Review all reconciliations and ensure completeness and compliance for the SAY-WEE Project
- Support GL reconciliation for accuracy and early error detection
- Participate in internal and external audits by providing auditors with accounting documents as requested and provide explanation for audit queries
- Perform other related tasks in respect to achieving the above listed as may be assigned
Basic Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Economics or related field with minimum of 2 years’ experience, alternatively 4 years’ experience in the field of finance.
- Experience and conversant with UN Face form, expert in forecasting and liquidation.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with donor funded projects most especially the UN
- Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks with competing deadlines
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Strong sense of collegiality, integrity, resourcefulness, and accountability for results.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- An ability to think critically and elevate risks to management.
- A creative and entrepreneurial approach to resolving problems.
- Advanced-level knowledge of Microsoft Excel, and basic functional knowledge of field accounting software packages.
Travel - Minimal
Supervisory Responsibilities – None
Closing Statement:
This position is contingent upon full confirmation of award. We encourage all qualified individuals who share TechnoServe's vision of improving the lives of others through proven business solutions to apply.
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