Palladium Group Ongoing Employment Opportunities

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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Workstream Lead – PROPCOM+

Job Ref. ID: req20684
Location: Nigeria

This Opportunity

• 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) enhance climate resilience, pursue lower emissions, and protect and restore nature, and (iii) help 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.

Location and Compensation

• The position is based in Palladium’s Abuja office. The P1 Workstream Lead will be required to travel frequently within Nigeria, particularly to the Northern part of Nigeria.
• Please be advised that a final salary offer will be based on various factors, including but not limited to your qualifications, education, experience, skills, seniority, performance, and Palladium’s business or organizational needs.
• If you have any questions or concerns regarding the compensation for this position, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We value your interest in our company and appreciate the opportunity to discuss this opportunity with you.

You and Your Career:

• If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have expertise in rural and agricultural market development, we are interested in hearing from you.
• We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start.  We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Reporting and Supervision:

• This post will report to the Strategy director.
• This post will supervise the Portfolio manager position as may be decided by Programme management.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Facilitate the scale-up of rural development interventions:

• Accountable for scaling up interventions previously implemented in Propcom Mai-Karfi programme. This initially will include delivering climate smart crop varieties; biofortified and fortified crop delivery models, livestock, and poultry vaccination scheme; ICT based extension services.
•  Manage a portfolio of interventions ensuring alignment with expected results, budget, timeline, and quality. Adapt intervention as needed based on results, emerging opportunities, risks, change in priorities, etc.
•  Manage and/or facilitate technical assistance, capacity building, training, mentorship, and business support, performance-based grants.
•  Design strategic partnerships to scale up interventions, engaging with new implementing partners / grantees, leveraging strengths of other UK initiatives, Development Partners, and Federal and State Government.
•  Integrate CSA, conflict-sensitivity, political economy, GESI, and nutrition sensitivity into the interventions both at a smallholder farmer level and across the value chain / wider market system.

Team Management:

• Manage an agile team (staff, consultants, and subcontractors) ensuring excellent work and high-quality outputs.
• Ensure good staff management practices including staff planning, recruitment, on-boarding, appraisal, and development.
• Support team to collect evidential data for MERL.

Stakeholder Management:

• Oversee the engagement with implementing partners / grantees and facilitate new connections and partnerships to scale up the interventions.
•  Manage relationship within agricultural entrepreneurship and MSME ecosystem, as well as with representatives of the Government of Nigeria. Maintain excellent relationship with the Leadership Team and Technical Advisors
•  Keep close relationship with the P1 and P3 Workstream leads to ensure smooth transitions and share knowledge.

Project Management:

• Lead client reporting on P1 results, activities, recommendations, and lessons learned.
• Where relevant, assume responsibility for consistent implementation of company Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Guidelines, Security Protocols and, where applicable, recommend modifications.
• Ensure the programme provides and demonstrates Value for Money.

Key Competencies Required

• A Master’s Degree in Economics, Agric-economics, any field of Engineering, Project Management, Marketing, or Strategic management.

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Substantial (10+ years) demonstrable, and professional experience, in supporting agricultural development, experience of primary processing, supporting storage practices, and working with vulnerable smallholder farmers and small-scale entrepreneurs.
• Strong knowledge of scaling up of business models and deploying of management tools.
• Active, established networks in small-scale Agripreneurs
• Strategic and analytical thinking
• Demonstrable Leadership skills
• Planning and strategic thinking
• Team management
• Task management skills
• Risk mitigation

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: P2 Workstream Lead – PROPCOM+

Job Ref. ID: req20684
Location: Nigeria

This Opportunity

• 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) enhance climate resilience, pursue lower emissions, and protect and restore nature, and (iii) help 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.

Location and Compensation

• The position is based in Palladium’s Abuja office. The P2 Workstream Lead will be required to travel frequently within Nigeria, particularly to the Northern part of Nigeria.
• Please be advised that a final salary offer will be based on various factors, including but not limited to your qualifications, education, experience, skills, seniority, performance, and Palladium’s business or organizational needs.
• If you have any questions or concerns regarding the compensation for this position, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We value your interest in our company and appreciate the opportunity to discuss this opportunity with you.

You and Your Career:

• If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have expertise in rural and agricultural market development, we are interested in hearing from you.
• We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Reporting and Supervision:

• This post will report to the Strategy director.
• This post will supervise the Portfolio manager position as may be decided by Programme management.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Sourcing and assessment of innovative business models:

• Develop framework for identifying and assessing viable innovations
• Find ways to grow the incubator, attracting new ideas and entrepreneurs to the project
• Accountable for the incubator communications strategy regarding attracting entrepreneurs and informing market actors
• Piloting support to test innovations and iterate designs
• Support business plan development and identify capacity gaps at business level, including finance needs
• Deliver targeted technical assistance to operationalise business plans
• Facilitate training, mentorship, and business support, based on business needs
• Prepare promising businesses for investor engagement
•  Manage technical assistance and performance-based grants (where relevant)

Team Management:

• Manage an agile team (staff, consultants, and subcontractors) ensuring excellent work and high-quality outputs.
• Ensure good staff management practices including staff planning, recruitment, on-boarding, appraisal, and development.
• Support team to collect evidential data for MERL.

Stakeholder Management:

• Manage relationship within agricultural entrepreneurship and MSME ecosystem, as well as with representatives of the Government of Nigeria.
• Lead the creation of Public Private Partnerships to incentivise the adoption of inclusive and sustainable models and practices
• Maintain excellent relationship with the Leadership Team and Technical Advisors
• Keep close relationship with the P1 and P3 Workstream leads to ensure smooth transitions and share knowledge.

Project Management:

• Lead client reporting on P2 results, activities, recommendations, and lessons learned.
• Where relevant, assume responsibility for consistent implementation of company Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Guidelines, Security Protocols and, where applicable, recommend modifications.
• Where relevant, ensure the programme provides and demonstrates Value for Money.

Key Competencies Required

• A Master’s Degree in Economics, Agric-economics, any field of Engineering, Project Management, Marketing, or Strategic Management.

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Substantial (10+ years) experience of relevant, professional experience, for instance supporting agricultural development, food security, MSME agribusiness and/or private sector development.
• Experience working on donor-funded projects required, FCDO and USAID experience preferred
• Meaningful experience applying market systems approaches
• Strong technical experience in the areas of entrepreneurship, MSME start-up, investment finance and MSME business development and/or startup incubation
• Experience in finance and investment desired
• Active, established networks in the above areas
• Risk mitigation
• Demonstrated management skills and effective interpersonal skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Portfolio Manager – PROPCOM+

Job ID: req20694
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

This Opportunity

• 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) enhance climate resilience, pursue lower emissions, and protect and restore nature, and (iii) help 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.

Location and Compensation:

• The position is based in Palladium’s Abuja office. The Portfolio Manager will be required to travel frequently within Nigeria, particularly to the Northern part of Nigeria.
• Please be advised that a final salary offer will be based on various factors, including but not limited to your qualifications, education, experience, skills, seniority, performance, and Palladium’s business or organizational needs.
• If you have any questions or concerns regarding the compensation for this position, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We value your interest in our company and appreciate the opportunity to discuss this opportunity with you.

You and Your Career:

• If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have expertise in rural and agricultural market development, we are interested in hearing from you.
• We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start.  We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Reporting and Supervision:

• The Portfolio Manager will supervise and lead a market section comprising several Interventions and officers (Market Facilitators). He/she will oversee interventions in targeted markets and identify further opportunities for the programme to pursue. This post will report to a Work Stream Lead.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities
This post will be responsible for the: Market Facilitators/Intervention Officers

• Providing overall strategic direction for the market sector and all interventions within the sector; designing evidence-based business models, intervention plans and relevant intervention guides with measurement plans for managing performance and alignment with programme results
• Identifying new markets in order to contribute to the overall programme strategy and liaising with the senior management team on potential markets.
• Initiating and managing all market related value chain analysis ensuring study designs, contracting and implementation are done in accordance to set standards.
• Develop and pitch business cases to potential business partners.
• Driving the stakeholder analysis of the selected commodity chains as well as identifying potential agents of change
• Overseeing the implementation of all market interventions ensuring initiative is taken and setting work plans for the intervention.
• Identifying and establishing strategic partnerships within the market and playing a lead role in managing all established partnerships
• Integrate CSA, conflict-sensitivity, political economy, GESI, and nutrition sensitivity into the interventions both at a smallholder farmer level and across the value chain / wider market system.

Ensure:

• Administrative guidance is followed for grants, MoUs, and general administration
• Budgets are managed for the markets being supervised
• Security guidelines are followed by all team members.

Team Management:

• Improving the performance of the team through mentoring and coaching
• Ensuring good linkages with the Results Measurement team
• Contributing to the overall leadership of the programme as part of the management team
• Work with Communications and MERL team to ensure intervention results are documented and ploughed into learning.

Professional Expertise / Competencies Preferred

• A First Degree in Economics, Agric-economics, any field of Engineering, Project Management, Marketing, or Strategic Management. Master’s degree in any business or social sciences will be an added advantage.

Key Competencies Required:

• 5-7years cognate experience facilitating market systems development approach. Private sector sales and marketing experience will be an added advantage.
• Experience designing business models and bottom of the pyramid models that catalyse investments from agribusinesses.
• Experience and knowledge of the agricultural and food market in Northern Nigeria is a definite advantage.
• Evidence of the ability to form strong partnerships.
• Credibility within the business community
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to develop well written, cohesive reports.
• Strong skills in business software (Excel, MS Project and PowerPoint)
• Excellent communication skills in both written and spoken English.
• Team management experience
• Willingness to travel domestically, especially to the north of Nigeria, is essential.
• Previous experience on M4P projects preferred.
• Risk identification and mitigation.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online