Senior Intervention Officer – Sustainable Land Use at Palladium Group

Job Title: Senior Intervention Officer – Sustainable Land Use

Description:

• We are searching for an experienced Senior Intervention Officer at our Abuja facility. 

About Propcom+

• Propcom+ is a new FCDO-funded eight-year (2023-2030), rural and agricultural market development programme supporting climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture and forestry that benefits people, climate, and nature.
• The programme is implemented by The Palladium Group, and it aims to transform Nigeria’s rural economy by addressing environmental, social, and economic challenges in the country’s food and land-use system. It will do this by (i) increasing productivity, improve nutrition and food security; (ii) enhancing climate resilience, pursue lower emissions, and protect and restore nature, and (iii) helping to tackle some of Nigeria’s underlying drivers of conflict and insecurity.
• It does this by working as a ‘market facilitator’, identifying constraints in markets systems and facilitating changes to enable rural markets to work better for the benefit of poor and climate-vulnerable smallholder farmers and rural small-scale entrepreneurs. 
• Propcom+ has a target of increasing the incomes and climate resilience of 3.9 million poor and vulnerable people in Nigeria, 50% of whom will be women, through a “3Ps” approach of interlinked components:
  • P1: Scaling-up a focused basket of Proven climate-smart interventions around agricultural and primary processing / storage practices and models to get these adopted by millions of poor and vulnerable smallholder farmers and small-scale entrepreneurs.
  • P2: Building markets by developing and Piloting new business models that improve productivity, enhance resilience to climate change, reduce emissions, and improve nutrition outcomes.
  • P3: Enabling Policies that support a strengthened enabling environment for sustainable food and land-use system.

Purpose

• The Senior Intervention Officer will lead and manage key interventions on Sustainable Land Use and Forestry ensuring activities are implemented effected to deliver results and impact under the Propcom+ program.
• The role includes overseeing project activities, coordinating with stakeholders, applying a broad range of market development tools to stimulate changes in the behaviour of market actors and structures, leading to more inclusive, “green” and sustainable market growth and providing technical expertise to drive the program’s success.
• S/he will work closely with the SLU and Forestry Lead and collaborate with the GESI Advisor, MEL, P2 and P3 teams to ensure alignment with key reporting indicators.

Reportinh and Line Management:

• This post will report to a Portfolio Manager to be determined. The post holder will work to the lead of the SLU Adviser on a day-to-day basis.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the SLU Lead in developing a strategic and balanced pipeline; and in managing Technical Assistance portfolio while regularly updating the FSLU strategy and corresponding workplans to achieve P+ and FCDO priorities.
• Identify and design intervention opportunities, maintaining coverage, and fulfilling programmes commitments in priority states.
• Manage multiple partner and potential partner relationships to help them secure technical assistance and funding from Propcom+ and monitor and evaluate impact.
• Periodically assess Programme/intervention assumptions in the light of the changing environment; identify emerging priorities, refine, and adapt intervention strategies accordingly.
• Perform periodic industry analyses on the broader forest-risk agriculture commodity markets and targeted subsectors to keep the programme strategy responsive.
• Support investor engagement into sustainable commodities and partnerships.
• Lead in supporting the development of business plans with project partners to meet expected financial investment and traction from the private sector.
• Conduct business investment potential and readiness assessment, develop factsheets as may be required, that provide an overview of financial and technical updates for value chains that our intervention actors are engaged in. 
• Contribute to strategic planning, effective management of interventions and timely reporting to meet programmes priorities, milestones and outcomes and alignment with client’s expectations. Assist regional work streams in generating FCDO and internal project reports/updates.  
• Ensure interventions under implementation achieve P+ SLU milestone targets as planned and share lessons and impact stories around interventions under implementation.
• Lead in establishing contacts with state and non-state actors that may contribute to the successful implementation of market activities and maintain relationships with key players with common interests as Propcom+.
• Conduct regular field visits to ensure proper implementation of intervention activities.
• Provide a range of project management support related to the projects, including due diligence, budgeting, monitoring and reporting, as well as contracting, procurement MoUs, ToRs and any other administrative requirement for the interventions.
• Provide periodic report to support decision making.
• Engage in developing and sharing knowledge products relating to own interventions

Teamwork:

• Work as a part of P+ team towards delivering programme results.
• Deploy consultative approach while working with both team members, consultants and partners foster good relationship among team members and demonstrate through attitude maintenance of a respectful workplace.
• Whenever tasked with management responsibility, ensure that good management practices are deployed.

Location:

• The post is primarily located in Abuja; however, the candidate will be required to travel frequently to states in both Northern and Southern Nigeria.

Required Qualifications
The Senior Intervention Officer should have:

• A Degree, or equivalent qualification in Economics, Agribusiness, Land Use, Natural Resources and Climate, or a related discipline
• 5+ years of previous experience in similar work, developing market systems or designing bottom of the pyramid models, funded by FCDO or other large donor agencies, including in a management role.
• Experience working in agricultural or forest commodities associated with deforestation, such as palm oil, cocoa, timber products etc.
• Relevant experience in sustainability in markets and supply chains;
• Proven experience in applying quantitative, conceptual, and analytical problem-solving skills;
• Experience in working with a broad range of stakeholders; facilitating and mainstreaming complex processes amongst civil society, private sector and governments;
• Comfortable with significant client interaction and managing multiple partners;
• Understand private sector investor mentality and needs to help shape projects and promote private sector investment in them.
• Solid experience in delivering high quality results against tight deadlines;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English;
• Strong personal qualities, including integrity, results oriented, commitment to excellence, equality, openness, inclusiveness, collegiality and solving problems even in very difficult situations.
• Knowledge and experience working in the South of Nigeria.
• Demonstrated ability to work and coordinate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders, including government, community-based organizations, and the private sector.

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is not specified. Therefore qualified and interested candidates can “CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT APPLICATION” It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy.

Website:

Official Job Website: https://thepalladiumgroup.com/careers