Job in Port Harcourt at DAI for a Senior M4P Portfolio Manager
DAI is an international development company. For more than 45
years, we have worked on the frontlines of international development,
tackling fundamental social and economic development problems caused by
inefficient markets, ineffective governance, and instability.
Currently,
DAI is delivering results that matter in some 80 countries. Our
development solutions turn ideas into impact by bringing together fresh
combinations of expertise and innovation across multiple disciplines.
Our clients include international development agencies, international
lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and
national governments.
The following job vacancy exists at DAI:
Job Title: Senior M4P Portfolio Manager
Description
Terms of Reference for the Senior M4P Portfolio Manager (Technical Team Manager)
Programme Summary
Market
Development in the Niger Delta (MADE) will use the Making Markets Work
for the Poor (M4P) approach to generate pro-poor and inclusive economic
growth in the non-oil sectors of the nine Niger Delta states. The
programme’s stated objective is to raise the incomes of at least 150,000
poor people, of whom 50 per cent will be women.
Scope of Work
A
senior M4P Portfolio Manager is required to work with the Team Leader
and the Implementation Managers to engage with the key stakeholders in
the selected value chains, to help clarify and define the specific
activities during the Pilot phase and manage the collection of
information on the additional interventions to be implemented during the
project’s main implementation phase.
The
M4P specialist will have line management and technical implementation
roles to assist the intervention managers and the intervention officers
to finalize and start their interventions, and guide the analysis into
all new additional interventions, ensuring that they have proper
documentation around.
The
M4P specialist will coordinate alongside the Grants Team, and follow up
any proposed initiatives or suggestions from the Team Leader, whenever
grant funds might appropriately be used in support of NGOs, CSOs and
other service providers, in support of local networking, and programme
activities, to strengthen market development in the MADE intervention
sectors, which include Palm Oil, Fisheries, Agricultural Inputs,
Leather, Poultry, Access to Finance, and any other new sectors that MADE
will enter into.
Tasks:
Sectoral analysis, pilot project design and intervention implementation
- Supervising and directing the implementation of pilot activities
- The
Senior M4P specialist will manage and assist the Intervention Managers
to start up new pilot interventions in the MADE sectors and to help
guide the pilots through to scale up and roll out.
- There
will be some preliminary consultations with the private sector on
market development issues, in the above sectors, and in the additional
sectors to be started up in the implementation stage.
- Managing the development and finalizing design of additional interventions
- Supervising
and managing the market systems analysis, development and delivery of
additional interventions required to meet the Project Milestone
deliverables over the life of the project
- Design,
structure and negotiate technical aspects of interventions with
potential private sector or other implementing partners (deal notes);
- Providing QA/QC on all ongoing interventions;
- Ensure the meeting of programme output targets for milestone payments;
Management
- Serve
as a member of the senior management team for the project, liaising
with Monitoring and Evaluation and the Advocacy and Finance and
administration teams
- Provide
to the Ops Manager the yearly, quarterly, monthly forecast and weekly
plan and budget for each value chain, activities, STTAs and grants.
- Managing and directing the Intervention Managers and Intervention officers.
- Supervising
and managing the intervention managers in the development and
implementation of new interventions using the analytical processes and analytical rigor needed to identify and address the underlying constraints in the target sectors.
- Assist the Programme Team Leader in personnel reviews for the market development intervention team.
- Other management tasks, as required.
Reporting
- Ensuring
the quality reporting of progress on all activities, interventions in
his portfolio for the quarterly and annual reports.
- Will lead on the Annual Workplan development for the M4P interventions, and finalisation of quarterly workplans
Qualifications
The senior M4P Portfolio manager must have:
- Graduate degree in economics or business
- 10
years of experience working on agricultural development programmes
delivering demonstrated results, preferably in Africa and Nigeria
- Proven background of engaging with large agribusinesses to develop linkage programmes;
- 5
years of experience designing and managing systemic development
interventions (M4P and Value Chain) in developing countries, preferably
in Africa
- Strong business management and financial analysis skills
- Excellent communication and written skills
Reporting
This
position will report to the MADE Team Leader and will engage with the
senior technical advisor any issues of a technical nature.
LOE: LTTA. Two years, extendable to the end of the Implementation phase (with a three month trial period)
Place of Duty: Port Harcourt
How to Apply