The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has acquired a credit score from the International Development Association (IDA) in direction of the associated fee of the Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria (TRIMING) Project and it intends to use half of the proceeds of the credit score in direction of fee for consultancy companies within the kind of a person consultant as:
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Job Title: General Manager (GM)
Reference No: FMWR / TRIMING / 2020 / INDV / CS / 02
Locations: Kano / Jigawa / Zamfara / Sokoto
Name of Project: Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria
Project ID No: P123112
Overview
- The TRIMING Project is looking for to recruit particular person Professional Experts (Consultant) within the above-named space with expertise in funding operation regarding the administration of Farmers Management and Service Centers in TRIMING Project Sites of Kano River Irrigation Scheme (KRIS) Kadawa in Kano State; Hadejia Valley Irrigation Scheme (HVIS), Auyo in Jigawa State; Bakalori Irrigation Scheme (BIS), Talata Mafara in Zamfara State and Middle Rima Valley Irrigation Scheme (MRVIS), Goronyo in Sokoto State.
- A set of the person specialists working as a Team will below the supervision of their respective FMC Board of Trustees (BoTs) primarily help the TRIMING Project Management Unit (PMU) within the Management of Farmers Management and Service Delivery Centers in every Project Site.
- The 4 Farmer Management and Service Delivery Centers (FMC5) have been registered below the Nigeria’s Companies and Allied Matters Act of 1990 (CAMA) as corporations restricted by shares.
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The Objective of the Assignment and Duration
- The objective of the FMCs is to handle challenges confronted by small-scale farmers in 4 irrigation schemes of BlS HVIS, KRIS, and MRIS. Identified constraints embody, however aren’t restricted to, entry to high quality inputs, mechanization companies, advisory companies, and credit score.
- The FMCs are additionally envisioned to behave as catalysts strengthening managerial capacities of smallholder farmer cooperatives and apex cooperatives which are the bulk shareholders within the FMCs.
- The FMCs goal is to rework irrigation agriculture right into a commercially viable funding, resulting in improved productiveness, discount in submit-harvest losses, improved high quality of commodities, and a extra environment friendly and predictable advertising and marketing system.
- The FMCs are additionally envisioned to enhance farmers’ entry to monetary companies.
- The length of particular person material specialists for this project shall be for preliminary interval of two (2) years, with the likelihood of annual renewal for the mission length topic to work necessities and passable performance.
Functions of FMCs
The operate of FMC5 for this project in liaison with National Project Coordinator (NPC) will primarily embody, however not restricted to the next:
- Warehouse (and pack homes for tomato) growth to encourage massive off-taker curiosity and permit for cleansing, grading, insurance coverage, farmers’ entry to credit score services utilizing warehouse receipt system and lengthy-time period storage and enhance high quality of onward provide. It is predicted that warehousing may also assist to buffer the value for paddy farmers.
- Facilitation of inputs provide and agro-seller help and growth
- Facilitation of mechanization companies
- Facilitation of finance for scheme worth chains
- Market facilitation to help institution of lengthy-time period offtake contracts and contribute to the creation of extra aggressive, inclusive, and resilient market methods
- Provision of technical companies and advisory – extension companies, enterprise growth, accounting, and bookkeeping companies to cooperatives, and many others.
Job Description
- The basic supervisor will work below supervision of and report back to the FMC Board of Trustees.
- He or she’s going to work carefully with management of farmer cooperatives to advertise the actions of the FMC and to make sure purchase-in from members of the cooperatives.
- He or She will take management in planning manufacturing actions for the goal worth chains with a view to guarantee sufficient availability of inputs and mechanization companies to attain manufacturing targets.
- He or She will lead growth of a extra environment friendly advertising and marketing system for focused worth chains by figuring out and constructing alliances with potential off-takers or aggregators and constructing capacities of farmers via their cooperatives to have interaction in joint advertising and marketing via the FMC services.
- He or She will lead planning and coordinating manufacturing, worth preservation, and advertising and marketing of scheme commodities.
- He or She may also be anticipated tp guarantee shut monitoring of scheme operations to take care of Sound monetary and administration practices by the FMC.
Areas of accountability would come with, however not restricted to – To ship the imaginative and prescient of a contemporary and commercially viable FMC, the overall supervisor will present:
- Leadership: Implement the technique of the shareholders for a commercially viable and worthwhile FMC
- Budget and useful resource administration: Manage the funds for FMC operation and administration
- Sustainability and enterprise planning: Lead work with worth chain specialists in growing sustainable and acceptable enterprise fashions for every promoted worth chain
- Relationship administration: Promote the FMC among the many acceptable stakeholders within the area
- Monitoring and reporting: Supervise and supply technical recommendation for the administration of agricultural manufacturing on the scheme to make sure FMC/cooperatives obtain set targets of manufacturing.
Qualifications
- A Master’s degree in related self-discipline; 5 to seven years’ expertise working with a big agribusiness firm, preferable buying and selling in commodities.
- Must be capable to use fundamental packages and spreadsheets to generate shows and reports; function confidently on the web to send e-mail and source info.
Essential Experience and Skills:
- Experience of rising begin-ups and/or of main massive organizations, working to worldwide requirements
- Exposure to agricultural initiatives utilizing trendy agricultural applied sciences
- Experience of organization growth and/or establishment constructing actions
- Experience of coaching and capability constructing actions on the grassroots degree
- Sound entrepreneurial expertise and enterprise know-how
- Experience in managing out-grower schemes
- Experience in managing profitable agribusiness begin-ups shall be an added benefit
- Knowledge and understanding of agribusiness in Nigeria
- Excellent representational and negotiation expertise
- Fluency in spoken and written English is required. Fluency in Hausa is an added benefit
Consultant EOI / Shortlisting Criteria
- Interested particular person consultants should submit their Curriculum Vitae (CV) with all the required doc connected similar to copies of engagement letters and many others. and different supporting info that the CV demonstrates that they’ve the required {qualifications} and related expertise to carry out the companies.
The brief-itemizing standards are:
- Evidence of General {qualifications} of the consultant (Education, Training, and work Experience
- Adequacy for the Assignment: Evidence of basic expertise in space of experience listed above
- Evidence of particular expertise in/of explicit space of experience typically administration, workshop/ gear administration and administration/finance or comparable fields as it’s relevant to space of experience
- Proven expertise of mission administration, administration and financing, particularly in Nigeria’s personal sector.
Proposed Remuneration
Negotiable.
Application Closing Date
2.00pm (Nigeria native time) on seventh August, 2020.
How to Apply
Interested and certified candidates should submit their expression of curiosity through e-mail or arduous copy (all related paperwork should even be submitted) to the deal with beneath relying on the realm of location:
ATTN: National Project Coordinator,
Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria Project,
Federal Ministry of Water Resources,
Plot 1402, Abba Kyari Stree, Off Adesoji Aderemi Street,
Apo – Abuja, Nigeria.
TeI: +2348038391469, +2348052048706.
Important Information / Notice
- The consideration of Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and employment of Consultants (below IBRD loans and IDA Credit and Grants) by World Bank debtors. January 2011 version and revised in July 2014 (Consultants Guidelines) setting forth the World Bank Policy on Conflict of Interest.
- Interested consultants could get hold of additional info from the deal with beneath throughout workplace hours 08:00 and 17:00 (Local time Monday to Friday) and /or send an e mail to the National Project Coordinator at deal with [email protected]
- The detailed Terms of Reference (ToR) for the place might be discovered on the following web site: www.triming.org
- Each profitable candidate has to make preparations on his / her private security within the course of discharging his / her official accountability.