IITA Business Development Manager Jobs 2022 – Nigeria NGO Jobs

IITA Business Development Manager Jobs 2022 – Nigeria NGO Jobs. IITA Nigeria looking for “Business Development Manager”. Applicants with a Masters in Agriculture may apply on or before 15 November 2022.

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture is a nonprofit organisation that works with partners to enhance crop quality and productivity, reduce producer and consumer risks, and generate wealth from agriculture, with the ultimate goals of reducing hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.

IITA Business Development Manager Jobs 2022

The IITA has published a job vacancy announcement on 02 November 2022 for qualified Nigeria’s to fill in the vacant post of Business Development Manager to be based in Kano, Nigeria.

IITA Job Vacancy 2022

DUTIES:

• Be responsible for developing and managing commercial and public sector partnerships for scaling the distribution of climate-tolerant biofortified seed and other inputs and enabling forward linkages with leading firms in the food and agribusiness sector.
• Develop a sustainable market system approach to Harvest Plus development activities under the Propcom+ initiative. Facilitate value chain arrangements like contract farming, bundling, and retail farmer and SME financing (including credit, savings, and insurance products).
• Support Harvest Plus in developing high-quality technical assistance packages, embedding these with relevant local TA suppliers and working in close collaboration with relevant sectoral stakeholders and ensuring change efforts are sustainable past the end of the project.
• Understand the ecosystem of market system participants and their interrelationships in the target value chains namely Vit A Maize, cowpea, Vit A Cassava, and iron pearl millet.
• Review and provide input on scale strategy of the project.
• Support work planning for systemic interventions that will generate results and target numbers as laid in the program results framework. Review activities to date with Lead Firms and plan for new activities to scale up interventions or work with new partners (for e.g. large distributors, agro-dealers, processors, financiers, food businesses) to catalyze systemic change.
• Help design appropriate partnership models and delivery approaches for new partners.
• Review the program’s systemic activities and results framework and contribute to the work plan for market systems activities with lead firms, commercial financiers and social organizations.
• Support the alignment of Propcom+ systemic approach to market systems development with partner contract results and indicator targets and facilitate regular reporting.
• Constantly review and iterate on the project design with the aim of improving how the project facilitates innovation, change, and sustainability.
• Work with partners to identify TA needs and facilitate local TA delivery.
• Work with other team members and external stakeholders on stakeholder engagement events for business planning, and state and federal policy.
• Help the Program lead manage and build the capacity of two-three state coordinators.
• Support the identification and development of new projects leveraging the activity under Propcom+.
• Perform any other job-related task as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Qualification & Experience:

• Masters in Agriculture, Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Extension, Agricultural Economics, Business Administration, or any other related field with a minimum of six (6) years of experience performing a similar or related role in a well-structured organization.

Other Details

• Contract Type: Full Time
• Selection Process: Interview
• Salary: negotiable
• Application Process: Online

How to Apply IITA Business Development Manager Jobs 2022

Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.

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The Closing Date: 15 November 2022

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.