Job Vacancies, Catholic Relief Services Abuja Recruitments 2011

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Job Vacancies, Catholic Relief Services Abuja Recruitments 2011

Catholic Relief Services is the official agency of the United Stated Catholic conference of Bishops for relief and development assistance overseas.

Job Title: Senior Program Manager – Agriculture

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Job Summary

This position ensures that CRS Nigeria complies with the Agency’s guideline principles of stewardship. It ensures that CRS Nigeria complies to CRS HQ financial policies, individual donor regulations and ensures efficient usage of CRS Nigeria’s fund on the Projects

Summary Of Primary Functions:

Specific duties include:

Technical leadership

Analyze market opportunities

Budget management

Develop agriculture capacity within CRS/Nigeria and its partners

Draft comprehensive progress reports.

Represent CRS at high profile technical meetings

Qualifications

Minimum of Masters Degree in Agricultural related field or business administration

Minimum of 6 years in relevant field including marketing research, farming systems. Agricultural policies, public and private donor relations

Previous management experience with agriculture projects.

Solid understanding of key issues facing small-scale farmers

Experience with and commitment to working in a team structure

Willingness and ability to travel within and outside Nigeria up to 40%

Fluency in Microsoft Office Software

How To Apply

Interested applicants should request for application forms from recruitments@ng.caro.crs.org fill the forms and send back to the same address along with a detailed CV as attached MS Word documents. Completed applications should reach us before 5pm, 20th June 2011. Applications sent in should be in the required format in order to be considered. Only short listed candidates will be notified.