Team Leader/Capacity Development Specialist

The American University of Nigeria - Mubi, Adamawa

Posted: Nov 7th, 2019

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The goal of AUN is to train the future leaders of Africa and to serve as both a stimulus and agent of economic development throughout the region. All students, regardless of academic specialization, receive high-level training in information technology, entrepreneurship and in arts and sciences.

Responsibilities

• Lead the efficiency and management of Office Operations and timely delivery of program support.
• Ensures compliance with all work ethics, resources management and provides exemplary leadership.
• Coordinate timely programs reporting working with officers and other specialists.
• Organize and oversee the implementation of the project training/capacity building, in line with the priorities identified by the project and partner institutions.
• Ensure the inclusion and consistency of capacity development plans in the overall project work plan and deliverables.
• Identify and organize collaborative partnership with trainers/consultant or capacity development experts, including professionals from GIZ programs, to meet the demand and objectives of the project.
• Facilitate the network of capacity-building experts on training and mentoring, in consultation with the Project Director.
• Ensure coherence and synergies of the project’s intervention with the overall strategy of JSR in terms of capacity building and high performance.
• Initiate, lead and follow relevant partnerships with the Ministry of Agriculture, AADP and GIZ, in order to support and pursue sustainable training for the targeted departments/units.
• Ensure the sharing of experiences and dissemination of good practice in capacity development.
• Design and develop training modules to support and respond to project needs.
• Develop a range of specific sustainable training on Agricultural produce value addition and emerging markets approaches and strategies.
• Coordinate/align training modules to direct beneficiaries of the project "learning by doing";
• Organize, implement and monitor other capacity utilization programs especially coaching and mentoring.

Minimum: HND Experience: 3-5 year(s)

Location: Mubi, Adamawa Job Type: Temporary

Salary: Negotiable Expires: 18-11-2019

General Requirements

• MA/MS in Pure and or Social Sciences and years’ experience in project management,
• 3 years’ experience in managing the office and people management.
• Great communication and report writing skills.
• Have experience in the development of training materials and delivering training.
• Average knowledge of project finance and procurement processes.
• Excellent knowledge of the agriculture value chain.
• High level of computer literacy (primarily in Microsoft Office packages).
• Fluent in Local languages and English.

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