We require suitable qualified candidates to fill the position below
Job Title: Livelihoods and Private Sector Programme Manager
(Division/Department/International)
Location: International /Abuja
Job Family: Programme
LEVEL: C2 National
OXFAM PURPOSE:
- To work with others to find tasting solutions to poverty and suffering.
TEAM PURPOSE:
The Private Sector Programme for Nigeria seeks to support build strategic links with the private sector actors in order to improve the incomes and livelihood of smallholder farmers, producers and processors engaged in Agriculture related ventures.
Job Purpose:
The Private Sector Manager will play a central role in the Oxfam team by creating a new generation of collaboration between Oxfam and the private sector. The Manager will drive new relations and forms of engagement with companies to reduce poverty. The post will lead Oxfam’s thinking on the role of the private sector, income and food security, whilst driving forward strategically important programmes in local value chains. These engagements will be designed to deliver increased income, promote women’s rights and reduce risk, for people living in poverty.
The post holder will drive learning on how to engage business and on how to develop country level private sector strategies and feed into the region.
Reporting Lines:
Post holder reports to: Country Director
Staff reporting to this post: None
Budget Responsibility: The post holder will manage project budgets
Dimensions:
- Responsibility to develop long-term vision and strategic planning to achieve significant impact on people’s livelihoods through engagement with the private sector
- Produce, assimilate, analyze and use information varies and diverse sources to provide in-depth analysis on the private sector and its links to sustainable livelihoods in Nigeria
- Facilitate set up of private sector pilots that will link Oxfam’s livehoods/development initiatives to social enterprise
- Integrate programme information from varied and diverse sources with Oxfam’s policy and advocacy strategy.
- Engage with key private sector and governmental actors to identify potential private sector opportunities that have the capacity to contribute Oxfam’s mission
- Strategic engagement relationship development /strengthening, and negotiation with potential stakeholders in the private, governmental and NGO sectors on relevant issues including CSRs
- Facilitate the country programme linkage with the private sector, creating a sustainable enterprise development environment through influencing private sector policies
- Decision-making is strategic and operational with judgement based on specific solving experience and a range of external and internal factors
- Manage and influence significant external relationships on policy and advocacy issues
- Programmes design and implementation supervision integrating private sector programming with other sectors
- Requires control of Oxfam GB quality standards and ethical to ensure compliance of private sector work to those
- Understanding of gender relations as they relate to enterprise development
- High level of brand risk management to keep the profile of Oxfam high.
Key Responsibilities:
Undertake contextual analyses of emerging livehoods issues that impact enterprise development
- To develop and deliver the Country’s strategy for engaging the private sector that will be informed and fully integrated into the countries strategy for engaging the private sector and will promote and manage business development
- To support initial pilot projects within the program and then replicate successful projects Support the development and implementation of the country Private Sector Programme activities in line with the agreed guidelines and procedures.
- To assist with the research, p
