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Job Title: Market Section Manager
Location: Abuja
Project Overview and Role
Propcom Mai-Karfi is a six year DFID programme aimed at increasing incomes for the poor in Northern Nigeria through enhanced employment opportunities for increased employment and improved productivity in selected agricultural market systems in Northern Nigeria
The Market Section Manager will have the overall responsibility of providing strategic guidance and management for the programme? market groups by managing all the programme interventions within the market section and overseeing both the strategic and administrative elements of the interventions.
S/he will also be required to establish and manage relationships with potential partners and stakeholders in the various interventions within the market sector. The Market Sector Manager will identify and design potential interventions for the programme and develop strategies for implementing these interventions. S/he will be responsible for ensuring strong linkages between the market sector and the Evidence and Learning/ Results Measurement team of the programme.
Though based in Abuja, this post will require frequent travel to the field.
The Propcom Mai-karfi staff work as an integrated team. The Market Section Manager will be expected to contribute to other aspects of the programme.
Responsibilities
The Market Section Manager will be responsible for the following:
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
3 year(s)
Bachelor’s Degree/HND
Not Specified
Requirements
Competencies
Communication: Confidently delivers tailored messages to various audiences using various media and tools. Asks insightful questions, validates the speaker?s feelings and points, and encourages the speaker; leaves the speaker feeling ?heard?. Reports concisely and proactively with observations, analysis, and implications of the observations on project work and has the ability to present such findings to a variety of stakeholders in a concise and effective manner.
Relationship Builder: Quickly develops trusting relationships with others; proactively assesses and manages trust with others. Maintains industry, government and corporate networks and consistently forges new business relationships to fit strategic priorities. Identifies shared goals and develops effective strategies around those goals; follows-up on connections to catalyze positive relationships. Demonstrates neutrality and helps parties come to creative agreements and solutions, while keeping ownership with the parties.
Business Person: Understands the idea of the marketing mix (the 5 ?P?s); can gather market info and give advice on marketing strategy; Advises on building and keeping good customer relations. Keeps records in more complex business environments; Advises on basic finances; Identifies and considers the financial risks of decisions; considers the economic value for the markets before making financial decisions. Delivers training workshops; Advises on selecting and recruiting staff; appreciates the importance of incentives for performance
Coach: Regularly engages with market actors and stakeholders to uncover and identify specific needs; builds desire in the coachee to address the needs. Offers specific, constructive feedback to others; leaves the coachee feeling empowered to improve; actively seeks out feedback to improve; uses feedback in reviewing intervention strategies. Creates buy-in from the coachee to improve; helps develop action plans; provides support, while ensure coachee ownership over the process
Innovator: Tests out new ideas on an ongoing basis; failure encourages greater future effort; often demonstrates creative thinking; uses innovative approaches in the execution of work; actively searches for solutions beyond traditional boundaries. Makes time to reflect and codify learning; seeks out sources of learning; regularly adjusts actions based on comparing expected results against actual results; makes informed decisions based on lessons learnt from other interventions within the sector. Proactively shares both successful and unsuccessful endeavours; actively identifies issues that may hinder effective collaborations and devises means of minimizing these; takes a leadership role in a team
Political Economist: Critically analyses institutions using a visual model, objectively allocating roles and functions. Can prescribe an agenda to improve the institutional arrangements for the benefit of poor people. Rigorously analyses the way power and politics affects markets and poverty; can model the power relations; and can prescribe improvements for the benefit of poor people. Collects and arranges complex evidence within an Excel workbook; cost-benefit analysis of economic options; prescription and argument for pro-poor improvements in markets.
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS
The Market Section Manager should have;
Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.