About Us
Borno Women Development Initiative (BOWDI) is a Women-led, registered Nongovernmental, Non-profit Organization in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. BOWDI has been active in Humanitarian and development activities in the Northeast, especially in education, peace-building, advocacy, food security, livelihood, and protection. The organization has been registered in Nigeria since 2014 and has worked with state agencies like the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), State Ministry of Education, State Ministry of Youth and Sport, and State Ministry of Women Affairs (MWASD) to carry out its activities. BOWDI also partnered with several UN agencies, INGOs, and NNGOs in implementing people’s centered projects. For the past years, we have implemented several projects ranging from Food Security, Nutrition and Livelihood, Human Rights, Peace-building/Conflict Management, Gender, Reproductive Health, Protection (Gender Based Violence, Child Protection, and EORE), and Environmental Management (climate change, forest conservation, and waste management).
Over the years, we have received funding from the EU, USAID, UNWFP, UNDP, UNHCR, FAO, ACF, the German government, and Malala Fund directly or through other development and humanitarian partners.
Job Type: Full Time
Position Title: Enterprise Development Officer (EDO)
Experience: 3 years
Locations: Borno (Magumeri & Nganzai)
Engagement Type: Contract
Position Overview
The Enterprise Development Officer (EDO) is responsible to facilitating the communities to become Self-reliant in pursuit of their common interests. Major role of EDO would be to promote optimal utilization of available resources. EDO will Identify, Plan & Manage project activities, including monitoring and evaluation of enterprise program components; prepare and submit reports and other deliverables, conduct market research and assessments to match producer capabilities to market demands.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Facilitating partner communities and organization to Identifying the target business & population for program interventions.
- Facilitate communities to enhance the alternate sources of income.
- To develop Training Material.
- To train communities on Business cycle, Marketing and business skills.
- Preparation of daily/weekly and monthly work plan and reports, and submission to Project Manager.
- Ensure women participation, focusing primarily on the poor and destitute, at all levels of decision making including identification, planning/ designing, implementation, maintenance, monitoring and evaluating of project activities.
- Ensuring that partner communities are actively and inclusively involved in making micro Investment Plan at individual, CO and village level for economic self-reliance.
- Identifying new businesses in the selected union councils of the project area and preparing value chains, Business Plans and feasibility reports for each business.
- Will be responsible to complete any other assignment given by Organization management
Relationship:
Internal
- Project teams
- Project Manager and Head of Programme.
- Finance and logistics teams
External
- Most frequent contacts with Communities and Local Government
- Partner and its visitors
Performance Standards:
- Ensure that all responsibilities complete within deadline period.
- Conflicts resolved during community meetings
- Reports and daily diary
Required Experience, Skill and Qualifications:
- Experience: Minimum of 3 year relevant experience in any well reputed organization.
- Qualification: MBA or equivalent in related field
- Skill, Abilities, Knowledge: Computer Literate with Good command on MS Office.
Personal Qualities:
- Good interpersonal and communication skill.
- Good command of written and spoken Hausa, English and preferably Kanuri.
- Ability to meet deadlines.
- Team player and problem solving skill.
- Ability to work under pressure and gender sensitive.
Required Travel:
Willingness to travel 20% of the time to remote areas of the country.
Disclaimer: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.
BOWDI’ talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.
Eligibility:
Kindly read the job description and criteria of the position you are applying and ensure you meet the job requirement.
Interested candidate should apply on or before 28th August 2023.
Female candidates are highly recommended to apply.
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