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Applications are invited from suitable experts to fill the position below:
Job Title: Expert
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time / Part-time
Slots: 12
Project Overview and Role
- We need experts for both full-time and part-time roles with respect to a live opportunity that will provide project and fund management support to upcoming entrepreneurship and fund management opportunity supporting SMEs in the off-grid market in 19 countries across West Africa
- This call for experts provides information about the profiles of interest.
Roles, Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Component Team Leaders:
- Directly reporting to the Project Leader and acting as a senior fund management professional (including grant management); supervising and coordinating the technical activities of entrepreneurship and or a fund management component, as well as the regional harmonization of technical standards.
- Candidates must possess senior management experience, currently reside in or have working experience in West Africa, and have led multidisciplinary teams spread across different countries (with a preference for West Africa).
Technical Experts:
- Directly reporting to Component Team Leaders. These include :
Financial Specialists:
- (Covering all 19 countries): responsible for the day-to-day administration and financial management of the fund management component, including grants.
Portfolio Investment Specialist:
- Responsible for making investment decisions, carrying out investment activities, and oversight of the existing portfolio.
SME Specialists:
- (Covering all 19 countries): responsible for providing TA to SMEs to improve their businesses and apply for grant funding and loans through the credit line.
Digital Finance Specialist:
- Responsible for providing TA to SMEs to adopt digital finance solutions, including PAYGO and e-money.
Off-Grid Solar Specialist:
- Responsible for supporting both entrepreneurship and fund management teams with strong and up-to-date technical knowledge on off-grid solar solutions, as well as providing technical assistance.
Cross-Cutting Functional Support:
Environmental Health and Safety Officer:
- Responsible for defining and implementing steps to ensure compliance with the environment, which entails, inter alia, training / educating stakeholders, analyzing and disseminating lessons learned and good practices, oversight of the environmental risk management system etc
Social Safeguards Expert:
- Responsible for defining and implementing steps to ensure compliance with social guidelines and risk management, which entails, inter alia, training / educating stakeholders, analyzing and disseminating lessons learned and good practices, oversight of the social risk management system, etc.
Gender Expert:
- Responsible for developing and implementing a gender action plan with concrete approaches to achieving gender-related objectives of the program.
- To operationalize the gender action plan, the Gender Expert will participate in other project activities such as procurement, community and stakeholder engagement, communication, and capacity building to ensure a gender-inclusive approach.
- The Gender Expert also will work with the M&E expert to develop an M&E framework that will include specific indicators to track and measure gender outcomes.
Legal Expert:
- Responsible for providing legal support to the program, such as drawing up and monitoring the execution of the agreements, as well as other legal documentation.
General Required Qualifications
- Expertise in the subject described for each role
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in technical specialist roles
- Minimum of 15 years’ experience for component team lead roles
- Fluency in either French or English; fluency in both is an advantage
- Working experience of West Africa
- Excellent communication and verbal skills
- Currently located or reside in any of the below countries
Who can Express Interest?
- Palladium International welcomes expressions of interest from professionals that represent a broad range of disciplines relevant to working with SMEs, entrepreneurship and skills provision, portfolio investment management, fund management and grants, off-grid solar expertise, etc.
Application Closing Date
23rd September, 2022 – 23:59.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Note
- To register your interest in being considered for specified roles, please submit the following documents:
- A cover letter and curriculum vitae; indicating your motivation and experience
- Salary Expectations
- After submission, your expression of interest will be reviewed by Palladium.
- Due to an expected high volume of interest, only selected individuals will be contacted.
Job Features
Job Category | Administrative / Secretarial / Personal Assistant (PA) / Clerical / Office Assistant Jobs |