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ROLE OVERVIEW

• The Project Director provides overall strategic and operational leadership for the NiWEMA Scale-Up Programme, bearing full accountability for the successful delivery of its commitment to reach 750,000 female-led micro and small enterprise participants and create 975,000 jobs over five years. The programme operates across two delivery modalities, an LMS-based online cohort model (40% of participants) and physical training delivered by EDC and implementing partners (60% of participants) and engages participants both as individuals and through sector-based clusters in fashion, food, agriculture, and other industries. The Project Director provides strategic leadership across all workstreams, manages funder and stakeholder relationships, and ensures programme quality, financial integrity, and impact at scale.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide strategic direction and operational oversight for the full NiWEMA programme across both online and physical delivery modalities, ensuring workstreams are aligned and outcomes are being achieved.
• Serve as the primary liaison with the funder, managing the relationship with professionalism, accountability, and transparency including all required reporting, budget conversations, and programme updates.
• Lead and develop the NiWEMA project team including the Finance Director and all Lead roles, fostering a high-performing, gender-responsive, and values-driven team culture.
• Oversee the development and execution of annual workplans, budgets, and monitoring frameworks across both delivery streams and both participation models (individual and cluster-based).
• Manage the implementing partner network responsible for physical training delivery, ensuring partner performance, quality compliance, and contractual obligations are met.
• Lead the development of a cluster engagement strategy that enables sector-based clusters in fashion, food, agriculture, and other sectors to participate effectively in the programme.
• Oversee risk management across the programme, with particular attention to the risks inherent in large-scale field operations, implementing partner management, and community-based engagement.
• Ensure full compliance with funder requirements, EDC policies, safeguarding standards, and all applicable Nigerian regulatory frameworks.
• Champion gender equality, inclusion, and safeguarding principles throughout all aspects of programme design and delivery across both online and physical channels.
• Represent NiWEMA at high-level external engagements, conferences, government forums, and sector events.
• Lead programme learning and adaptation using data from both delivery streams to continuously improve the programme model over its five-year life.
• Any other related task on the engagement
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QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Master’s degree in development studies, Business Administration, Project Management, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• Minimum of 15 years' progressive experience in programme or project leadership, with at least 5 years at senior management level.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale, donor-funded programmes with both digital and field delivery components preferably with a women's economic empowerment or enterprise development focus.
• Proven experience managing implementing partner networks in a multi-state or national programme context.
• Strong track record of funder relationship management and results-based reporting at scale.
• Deep understanding of sector-based enterprise clusters and value chain dynamics in the Nigerian context.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification is an advantage.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Strategic leadership across complex, multi-modal programmes
• Implementing partner and stakeholder management
• Dual delivery model (online and physical) oversight
• Results orientation and accountability at scale
• Team leadership and people development
• Gender-responsive leadership

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ROLE OVERVIEW

• The Finance Director is responsible for the financial management, compliance, and reporting of the NiWEMA programme across its full five-year life and 750,000-participant scope. The dual delivery model which is online (40%) and physical (60%), creates a complex financial architecture that includes LMS platform costs, implementing partner disbursements, field operations expenditure, trainer payments, venue costs, and cluster-level financial tracking alongside central programme costs. The Finance Director ensures that all funds are managed with the highest standards of accountability, transparency, and funder compliance, and provides financial leadership across the project team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead all financial management activities for NiWEMA, including multi-year budgeting, forecasting, expenditure tracking, and financial reporting across both online and physical delivery streams.
• Manage financial disbursements to implementing partners for physical training delivery, ensuring compliance with sub-grant or service contract requirements and maintaining clear audit trails.
• Develop and implement financial tracking systems for cluster-based programme activities, ensuring expenditure can be disaggregated by delivery modality, participation model, and geographic location as required by the funder.
• Ensure full compliance with funder financial requirements, including adherence to approved budgets, procurement procedures, and financial reporting schedules.
• Prepare accurate and timely financial reports and reconciliations for the funder, EDC leadership, and the Project Director.
• Manage the programme's cash flow, fund requests, and disbursements, maintaining liquidity for field operations and partner payments across multiple locations.
• Oversee financial controls, internal audit readiness, and risk management across all programme expenditure, including field-level financial transactions.
• Lead internal and external audit processes, ensuring all documentation including partner financial reports is complete and compliant.
• Provide financial guidance and capacity building to programme staff and implementing partners on budget management and compliance requirements.
• Manage WHT and other applicable tax obligations across programme financial transactions in compliance with Nigerian law.
• Provide accurate information to the implementing partner.
• Any other related task on the engagement

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Master’s degree in Finance, Business Administration or Management
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. ACA, ACCA, or ICAN professional qualification required.
• Minimum of 15 years' progressive financial management experience, with at least 3 years managing finances for large-scale donor-funded programmes.
• Demonstrated experience managing sub-grant or implementing partner financial relationships.
• Strong knowledge of Nigerian financial regulations, tax obligations, and donor financial compliance frameworks.
• Experience managing budgets with both digital/platform cost components and field operations expenditure.
• Proficiency in financial management software and donor reporting systems

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Multi-stream financial management and reporting
• Implementing partner financial oversight
• Donor compliance and audit management
• Integrity and professional accountability
• Capacity building and team financial literacy

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ROLE OVERVIEW

• The Access to Market Lead designs and manages all market access interventions within NiWEMA, to strengthen the capacity, market access resilience and growth potential female-led micro and small enterprises across Nigeria, while contributing to the creation of 975,000 jobs nationwide over five years. The role operates across two participation models: individual business participants and sector-based clusters in fashion, food, agriculture, and other industries. The cluster model creates distinct opportunities including collective procurement, group market certification, shared supply chain linkages, and sector-specific buyer relationships that require a differentiated strategy from individual market access pathways.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and lead a dual-pathway market access strategy that addresses both individual business participants and sector-based clusters, developing tailored approaches for each.
• Develop collective market access pathways for sector clusters including group supply agreements, cooperative selling arrangements, shared logistics, and cluster-level buyer negotiations in fashion, food, agriculture, and other sectors.
• Build and manage relationships with market actors, corporate buyers, e-commerce platforms, retail chains, food processors, fashion aggregators, agricultural off-takers, trade associations, and government procurement bodies, relevant to both individual and cluster participants.
• Design and deliver market access content for both the LMS-based online curriculum and physical training sessions, ensuring relevance to participants' specific sectors.
• Lead the organisation of market linkage events, trade fairs, buyer-seller sessions, and sector-specific market exposure activities for both individual and cluster participants.
• Supervise and provide technical guidance to the Access to Market Support Officer.
• Monitor and report on market access outcomes, disaggregated by delivery modality, participation model, and sector cluster.
• Identify and address systemic market access barriers facing young women entrepreneurs in target sectors, integrating practical solutions into programme delivery.
• Collaborate with the Gender Lead to ensure market access strategies are gender-responsive and account for the specific power dynamics women face in sector markets.
• Contribute to programme reports, case studies, and impact documentation related to market access outcomes.
• Any other related task on the engagement

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Economics, Marketing, Development Studies, or a related field. Master's degree is an added advantage.
• Minimum of 8 years' experience in market development, enterprise support, value chain development, or private sector development with a focus on micro and small enterprises.
• Demonstrated experience working with sector-based clusters or value chains in at least one of the following: fashion/textiles, food processing/agri-food, or agriculture.
• Experience designing market access training for both online and in-person delivery.
• Strong network of market actors, buyers, and commercial partners across relevant sectors.
• Prior experience on women's economic empowerment programmes is strongly preferred.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Sector-based value chain and market systems analysis
• Cluster and collective market access strategy
• Buyer and commercial partner relationship management
• Dual-modality training design and facilitation
• Gender-responsive market development

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ROLE OVERVIEW

• The Access to Market Support Officer provides operational and coordination support to the Access to Market Lead across both individual and cluster-based market access workstreams. The role supports the delivery of market linkage activities, maintains partner and cluster databases, assists in participant engagement across both online and physical streams, and handles the administrative and coordination functions that enable the market access strategy to operate at scale.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the planning and delivery of all market access activities including trade events, buyer-seller sessions, cluster linkage initiatives, and sector-specific market exposure activities.
• Coordinate logistics for market access events across both online and physical delivery channels including virtual sessions, physical trade fairs, and field visits.
• Maintain and regularly update databases of market access partners, buyers, e-commerce platforms, and commercial opportunities, disaggregated by sector cluster and delivery modality.
• Support the coordination of sector-based clusters, maintaining cluster contact lists, communicating market opportunities, and tracking cluster engagement and outcomes.
• Assist in the facilitation of market access training sessions under the direction of the Access to Market Lead, in both online and in-person formats.
• Liaise with both individual participants and cluster coordinators to communicate market opportunities, application processes, and linkage requirements.
• Assist in monitoring and documenting market access outcomes, collecting data from participants and clusters on new markets accessed, revenue generated, and commercial relationships established.
• Prepare draft activity reports, summaries, and database updates for review by the Access to Market Lead.
• Support any other market access coordination activities as assigned by the Access to Market Lead.
• Any other related task on the engagement

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Business administration, Marketing, Economics, Development Studies, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3–5 years' experience in programme support, business development, or market development.
• Familiarity with at least one target sector (fashion, food, or agriculture) is an added advantage.
• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and comfort managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Experience with data collection, database management, and basic reporting.
• Comfort with both online coordination tools and field-based coordination

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Multi-channel coordination and logistics
• Cluster and partner communication
• Data collection and record-keeping
• Initiative and adaptability
• Team collaboration and reliability 

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ROLE OVERVIEW

• The Quality Control & Standardisation Lead is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing quality assurance frameworks across both delivery modalities of the NiWEMA programme, the LMS-based online cohort stream (300,000 participants) and the physical training stream delivered by EDC and implementing partners (450,000 participants). Ensuring consistent quality at this scale, across two fundamentally different delivery environments, is one of the most operationally complex challenges of the programme. The role holder develops quality standards for each modality, monitors delivery against those standards, builds facilitator and trainer capacity, and drives continuous improvement across the full programme.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and implement separate but complementary quality assurance frameworks for the LMS-based online delivery stream and the physical training delivery stream, establishing clear standards, tools, and monitoring protocols for each.
• For the online stream: monitor LMS engagement data, cohort completion rates, facilitator activity, and participant experience; identifying quality gaps and triggering corrective action.
• For the physical stream: develop training quality standards, observation protocols, trainer assessment tools, and venue compliance checklists applicable to both EDC-delivered and implementing partner-delivered sessions.
• Lead regular quality audits across both streams including remote monitoring of online cohorts and periodic field observation visits to physical training sites.
• Design and deliver facilitator and trainer induction, training, and ongoing capacity building for both online facilitators and physical trainers, ensuring consistent delivery standards regardless of modality or delivery agent.
• Develop and maintain all programme standards documentation including online facilitator handbooks, physical trainer guides, cluster training standards, and content quality benchmarks.
• Monitor quality outcomes for both individual and cluster-based participation models, identifying any differences in quality or experience between the two approaches.
• Work with the LMS administrator to ensure the platform is configured to support quality monitoring and data capture for the online stream.
• Work with the implementing partner management function to ensure quality standards are embedded in partner agreements and monitored throughout partner delivery.
• Report on quality indicators across both streams to the Project Director, identifying risks and recommending corrective actions.
• Champion continuous improvement and ensure quality standards are gender-responsive and appropriate for young women micro-entrepreneurs across all sectors and delivery contexts.
• Any other related task on the engagement

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in education, Social Sciences, Business Administration, or a related field. Master's degree is an added advantage.
• Minimum of 6–8 years' experience in quality assurance, programme monitoring, curriculum delivery, or learning and development.
• Demonstrated experience designing quality frameworks for both online/digital and physical/field-based programme delivery.
• Experience with large-scale training programmes delivered through a network of implementing partners or trainers.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort with data-driven performance management.
• Field experience conducting training quality assessments or observations is required.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Dual-moality quality assurance system design
• Implementing partner quality management
• Data analysis and performance monitoring
• Facilitator and trainer capacity building
• Continuous improvement and standards development

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ROLE OVERVIEW

• The Gender Lead ensures that the NiWEMA programme is designed, delivered, and evaluated through a robust gender lens across its full scope, 750,000 participants over five years, reached through both an online LMS cohort model and physical training, and engaging participants as individuals and through sector-based clusters in fashion, food, agriculture, and other industries. The role holder leads gender mainstreaming across all workstreams, conducts contextual gender analysis for each delivery environment and participation model, and ensures that the specific barriers facing young women entrepreneurs aged 18–35 in Nigeria are systematically addressed throughout the programme.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the development and implementation of NiWEMA's gender strategy, ensuring gender equality principles are embedded across all workstreams, curriculum, market access, quality assurance, safeguarding, and impact reporting, for both online and physical delivery.
• Conduct and maintain a gender analysis of the programme's target population, with specific attention to how gender barriers differ across delivery modalities (online versus in-person) and participation models (individual versus cluster-based).
• Analyse gender dynamics within sector-based clusters, particularly in fashion, food, and agriculture, identifying whether cluster structures are genuinely accessible to young women and whether power dynamics within clusters create inclusion risks.
• Provide technical guidance to project staff, facilitators, physical trainers, and implementing partners on gender-responsive design and delivery.
• Review all programme content, tools, training materials, and LMS modules to ensure they are gender-sensitive, inclusive, and free from harmful stereotypes.
• Design and deliver gender training and sensitisation for all project staff, facilitators, trainers, and implementing partners, across both online and physical delivery contexts.
• Assess and address the specific gender safety considerations of physical training delivery including venue selection, trainer conduct, travel safety for participants, and community dynamics in field locations.
• Monitor and report on gender-disaggregated programme data, tracking outcomes by delivery modality, participation model, sector, age, and geographic location.
• Develop gender-related sections of programme reports, case studies, and funder submissions.
• Collaborate closely with the Safeguarding Lead to ensure gender and safeguarding approaches are integrated and mutually reinforcing across both delivery modalities.
• Represent NiWEMA at external gender-focused forums and engage with the women's economic empowerment ecosystem in Nigeria.
• Any other related task on the engagement.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related field. Master's degree is an added advantage.
• Minimum of 6 years' experience in gender programming or women's economic empowerment, with demonstrable experience in both digital and field-based programme delivery contexts.
• Experience conducting gender analysis of sector-based value chains or cluster structures is an advantage.
• Strong knowledge of gender dynamics in the Nigerian context, including the specific challenges facing young women entrepreneurs in target sectors.
• Experience integrating gender into large-scale programmes with multiple delivery channels and implementing partners.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Gender analysis across diverse delivery contexts
• Sector and cluster gender mainstreaming
• Technical advisory and capacity building
• Cross-functional collaboration and influence
• Stakeholder engagement and advocacy

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ROLE OVERVIEW

• The Safeguarding Lead is responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing the NiWEMA programme's safeguarding framework across its full operational scope, 750,000 participants over five years, engaged through both an online LMS-based cohort model and physical training delivered by EDC and implementing partners across multiple Nigerian states. The physical delivery component representing 450,000 of the 750,000 participants, significantly expands the safeguarding risk profile compared to an online-only programme, introducing risks associated with field venues, trainer conduct, travel, implementing partner compliance, and community-based cluster dynamics. The Safeguarding Lead ensures robust, context-sensitive safeguarding systems are in place and operational at every level of programme delivery.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop, implement, and regularly review a comprehensive NiWEMA Safeguarding Policy and associated procedures, covering both online and physical delivery environments and both individual and cluster participation models.
• Design and implement differentiated safeguarding risk frameworks for the online delivery stream and the physical training stream; recognising that the risk profile, exposure points, and mitigation requirements differ significantly between the two.
• Establish and manage a clear, accessible, confidential, and multi-channel safeguarding reporting and response mechanism for programme participants, staff, facilitators, trainers, and implementing partners.
• Conduct safeguarding due diligence on all implementing partners before engagement and embed safeguarding standards as binding requirements in all implementing partner agreements.
• Monitor implementing partner safeguarding compliance throughout the programme, conducting field-based safeguarding audits and reviews at physical training sites.
• Design and deliver mandatory safeguarding training and induction for all project staff, online facilitators, physical trainers, implementing partner staff, and cluster coordinators tailored to each role's specific risk exposure.
• Conduct safeguarding risk assessments for all physical training events, field visits, cluster engagements, and community-based activities, implementing appropriate mitigation measures.
• Receive, document, and manage safeguarding concerns and incidents in line with established protocols, ensuring timely referral to appropriate authorities including law enforcement, child protection services, or gender-based violence response networks, where necessary.
• Ensure safeguarding principles are embedded in all programme communications, LMS content, physical training materials, and cluster-facing documentation.
• Maintain accurate, confidential records of all safeguarding cases and produce safeguarding reports for the Project Director and funder.
• Collaborate with the Gender Lead to ensure safeguarding and gender approaches are integrated and mutually reinforcing across all delivery channels.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, Psychology, Development Studies, Law, or a related field.
• Minimum of 6–8 years' experience in safeguarding, child protection, gender-based violence prevention, or related fields, with demonstrable experience in large-scale field-based programme delivery.
• Experience developing and implementing safeguarding frameworks for programmes delivered through implementing partner networks is required.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Nigerian safeguarding laws, regulations, gender-based violence referral pathways, and child protection frameworks.
• Safeguarding or child protection certification from a recognised institution is required.
• Experience conducting field-based safeguarding assessments and audits.
• Strong ability to handle sensitive information with discretion, confidentiality, and professional judgment.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Dual-modality safeguarding framework development
• Implementing partner safeguarding compliance
• Incident management and case response
• Training design across diverse delivery contexts
• Discretion, integrity, and professional judgment

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ROLE OVERVIEW

• The Impact Story Specialist captures, crafts, and amplifies the human stories of transformation generated by NiWEMA across its full five-year scope, 750,000-participant reach, and dual delivery model. The programme's combination of online and physical delivery, individual and cluster-based participation, and sector diversity across fashion, food, agriculture, and other industries creates an exceptionally rich landscape for impact storytelling from individual entrepreneur transformation narratives to collective cluster growth stories, from digital learners to women trained in markets and community settings across Nigeria. The role holder produces compelling impact content for funders, partners, and the broader public, while maintaining rigorous ethical standards in participant documentation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and implement a systematic impact story collection framework spanning both online and physical delivery streams, individual and cluster participation models, and all target sectors ensuring a diverse and representative body of impact evidence.
• Conduct in-depth interviews and fieldwork with individual participants, cluster members, facilitators, trainers, and partners across programme geographies to gather rich, evidence-based impact narratives.
• Develop cluster transformation stories that capture collective impact, documenting how sector-based clusters in fashion, food, agriculture, and other industries have grown, accessed new markets, and strengthened as a result of NiWEMA participation.
• Write high-quality impact case studies, human interest stories, and programme profiles for funder reports, publications, website content, and advocacy materials.
• Produce multimedia impact content, short video profiles, audio testimonials, photo essays, and social media content, in collaboration with the communications function.
• Maintain an organised, consent-verified archive of participant impact stories, multimedia assets, and supporting evidence across both delivery streams.
• Collaborate with the M&E function to ensure qualitative impact stories complement and contextualise quantitative programme data across both online and physical delivery channels.
• Identify and develop stories that demonstrate the programme's gender impact, amplifying the voices and achievements of young women entrepreneurs across all sectors and geographies.
• Ensure all impact documentation and participant profiling is conducted with full informed consent and in accordance with the programme's safeguarding, data protection, and ethical storytelling standards.
• Support the Project Director in positioning NiWEMA as a thought leadership reference for women's enterprise development at scale in Nigeria.
• Any other related task on the engagement

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, Journalism, Development Studies, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• Minimum of 6 years' experience in impact documentation, communications, journalism, or storytelling within a development, NGO, or social enterprise context.
• Demonstrated experience producing impact case studies across both digital programme contexts and field-based community settings.
• Experience documenting collective or cluster-level impact, cooperative, group enterprise, or community-based transformation stories is an advantage.
• Proficiency in multimedia content production including basic video, photography, and audio recording.
• Fluency in English required. Proficiency in Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, or other Nigerian languages is a significant advantage for field documentation work.
• Deep commitment to ethical storytelling including informed consent, participant dignity, and the responsible representation of vulnerable populations.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Impact storytelling across online and field contexts
• Cluster and collective impact documentation
• Multimedia content production
• Ethical practice and participant dignity
• Cross-functional collaboration and M&E integration