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• The jobholder will provide overall strategic
  direction for the market sector and all interventions within the sector;
  monitoring and quality assuring all intervention guides and resulting
  outputs Identify new markets with the aim of contributing to the overall
  programme strategy; liaise with programme senior management team on
  potential markets and design effective implementation strategies for
  approved market interventions ensuring that they meet all donor and
  programme requirements
• Drive the stakeholder analysis of the
  selected market systems as well as identifying and contacting potential
  agents of change.
• Initiate and manage all market related value
  chain analysis ensuring study designs, contracting and implementation are
  done in accordance to set standards; coordinate the development of final
  market opportunity reports as well as all other weekly, monthly, quarterly
  and annual reports within the market sector
• Manage the implementation of all market
  intervention ensuring that initiative is taken within each intervention
  and setting work plans for the interventions
• Build and strengthen strategic partnerships
  within the market and play a lead role in managing all established
  partnerships. Ensure sustained reporting on all intervention activities,
  progress reports, on and off field feedback and lessons learnt from each
  intervention.
• Identify key policy areas for each intervention
  and establish appropriate partnerships and contacts aimed at driving the
  policy amendment process where applicable.
• Coordinate all administrative aspects of market
  partnerships including but not limited to grants, MoUs and contracts
• Manage the outputs of all members of the
  market section team
• In charge of ensuring optimum performance of
  all members of the team
• Establish and maintain processes and systems
  which ensure strong continued linkages between the programme’s Results
  Measurement team and the Market Section team ensuring all interventions
  are adequately and extensively researched, reported and monitored.

• The ideal candidate should hold a Master’s
  degree or similar qualification in Business. Economics or Development
  Studies;
• At least three years’ experience in
  implementing and managing projects with at least one year spent on the
  field on market research community projects;
• Two years’ experience leading a busy team and
  coordinating across teams;
• Previous exposure and experience in business
  strategy development with focus on agricultural value chain analysis
• Previous experience reviewing and writing
  reports
• Prior experience in the development of
  surveys and data collection instruments for monitoring programmes;
• Previous data analysis experience using
  Microsoft Excel or any other data analysis tool;
• Previous experience using the market for the
  poor (M4P) approach would be of great advantage.
• Working knowledge of the institutions and
  organizations and/or businesses that provide services to the agricultural
  sector in Nigeria and at the State level;
• Previous supervisory/ managerial
  responsibilities within a busy team

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