Jobs at Sahel Capital Partners & Advisory Limited

Location: Kano (With travel to Lagos and across Northern Nigeria)

Role Summary

• The Field Coordinator will ensure high quality implementation of Sahel projects in Northern Nigeria.
• He/she will lead the planning, coordination of, management and reporting of project activities at the state and local level, engaging with key stakeholders on the one hand and reporting to Sahel’s Program Management Office (PMO) on the other hand with the objective of achieving projects’ goals.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Program Implementation:

• Coordinate field activities, ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices and donor guidelines.
• Lead the engagement with the implementing partners, service providers and other key stakeholders including federal, state and local governments and other entities involved in the program’s activities to deliver on the targets for the program
• In coordination with the Sahel PMO, facilitate the development of project strategies, plan technical capacity building interventions, activities and policies related to increasing the production and productivity of smallholder dairy farmers.
• Documentation, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
• Abide by donor requirements/regulations as well as Sahel’s procedures and policies for compliance, including financial, procurement etc.
• Support program managers in the grant award and management process to implementing partners and contractors. Ensure effective utilisation of project funds by grantees.
• Support the Program Manager in planning, reviewing and tracking progress on project, implementation as well as on the utilisation of project resources, effective financial management and reporting.
• Assist the Program Manager in preparing quarterly and annual progress reports
• Report on follow up, trainings, support provided to groups, monitoring and evaluation activities
• Document success stories and case studies.
• Maintain up to date documentation related to project approval, monitoring and implementation.
• Building daily progress reports into quarterly, annual and final reports and respond to the queries related to project particularly technical aspects of the project.
• Ensure that all project documentation is well organized and easy to access on the portal.

Minimum Qualification and Requirements
Candidates should have:

• A University degree in Agriculture or related field with 3 years’ relevant experience at field level of community development with a strong understanding of social development
• Strong networks with key stakeholders in the agriculture landscape in both the public, private and development sector. Experience in collaborating and managing relationships with federal and state governments, donors, private sector and other key stakeholders
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, training and facilitation skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel and Outlook
• Excellent personal organisational skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• High level of interpersonal skills with the ability to work across cultures and religions, with strong communication and listening abilities, good problem solving approach and conflict resolution at individual and community level
• Strong program management skills and high level of analytical skills in planning and project implementation
• Ability to be flexible, respond professionally, and establish priorities in often fluid, changing, and challenging situations with little clear guidance is necessary.
• Ability to work calmly, tactfully, and effectively under pressure and to demonstrate extreme flexibility in managing more than one activity.
• Sound knowledge of local environment
• Willingness and enthusiasm for working with rural and vulnerable communities living in remote areas of the country.
• Proficiency in the English language (required) and Yoruba and Hausa (preferred)

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Details:

Reporting to:
Project Manager

Project Description:
The Nigerian Dairy Development Program (NDDP) is geared towards improving the livelihoods of smallholder dairy farmers in Nigeria by improving the productivity of their cattle and integrating them into the formal dairy value chain in Nigeria. The Project also includes a nutrition component and gender component which are geared towards improving nutrition outcomes and promoting women empowerment in smallholder farming communities

This project is implemented by Sahel Capital Partners & Advisory Ltd. and a consortium of other partners. The project seeks to boost the yields and incomes of smallholder farmers, increase nutrition outcomes and empower women involved in agriculture in Africa.

Role Summary:
Under the supervision of the Project Manager, the M&E Officer will be responsible for designing and implementing the project M&E plan, identifying key information areas, data sources, metrics and indicators to be tracked for each implementing partner. He/she will also establish and direct a process for preparing and submitting periodic M&E reports that will inform conversations at the quarterly project progress meetings. The M&E officer will also oversee the selection, development and maintenance of a portal to monitor milk supplier involvement, insemination activities, feed supplied, vaccines delivered for the project and will be responsible for the collection and analysis of different data in relation to the project activities. Finally, the M&E officer will oversee the end of project evaluation in order to determine to which extent the program has achieved its targets and answered key anchor questions it seeks to answer.
The M&E Officer will work in close collaboration with project team and operations clusters, Government officials, private sector, non-government and civil society organizations.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Planning, developing and implementing Dairy Development Services
• Collaborate with the project team to plan, design and implement a baseline study at the beginning of the project.
• Develop M&E plan, including key information areas, data sources, metrics and indicators to be tracked for each implementing partner as well as establishing framework and timelines for preparing and submitting reports. Consult with implementing partners and lead key stakeholder convening to discuss and align on the M&E plan.
• Develop and implement monthly data reporting process for implementing partners. Coordinate with Implementing Partners (IPs) for collecting data against agreed indicators. Ensure quality of data collected by partners.
• Setup and maintain a portal to monitor milk supplier involvement, daily milk collection, insemination activities, feed supplied, vaccines delivered etc.
• Coordinate the training of the implementing partners’ extension workers who will be inputting data in the portal.
• Develop quarterly M&E reports and provide feedback to partners and PMO on projects’ performance based on monitoring data findings.
• Coordinate with the Program Manager to facilitate discussions at the quarterly progress meetings around progress against plan, potential issues, proposed resolutions and impact of these resolutions.
• Ensure quality of data/ statistics in project plans
•  Documentation, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
• Participate in field visits to project sites as per the requirement of the project
• Supervise regular data collection through implementing partners and ensure quality of the data by random verifications and validations.
• Record, manage and preserve monitoring and evaluation data in a safe and accessible way
• Analyze and discuss findings based on regular monitoring data
• Provide technical support on M&E and evidence-based recommendations to the Project Staff and other partners.
• Ensure that implementation of field activities adheres to the monitoring and evaluation system
• Participate actively in program planning process and budgeting of the program quality.
• Support Program Management Office in developing the quarterly, annual and final organizational reports.
• Support PMO in dealing with any other tasks as may be required

Minimum Qualification and Requirements:
Candidates should have:

• Master’s Degree preferably in Business Administration, Economics or related field with at least 5 years of experience in the design and implementation of M&E/MIS in development projects implemented by national/international NGOs/ Government;
• Experience in designing tools and strategies for data collection, analysis and production of reports;
• Proven ICT skills, especially in the development of MIS software using database software;
• Expertise in analyzing data using statistical software;
• Strong training & facilitation skills.
• Excellent personal organizational skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong communication, analytical and report writing skills
• Willingness and enthusiasm for working with rural and vulnerable communities living in remote areas of the country.
• Proficiency in the English language (required) and Yoruba and Hausa (preferred)
• Position based: Lagos (Project Management Office) with frequent travel to project sites across Nigeria, including the North as will be required.