About the Role
The Senior Associate, Nutritious Foods Financing (N3F) Technical Assistance & Impact will work on GAIN’s N3F programme, focusing on two key areas:
Provide technical assistance to the N3F SME investees operating across the food value chain in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Monitor the impact of the technical assistance to ensure the quality-of-service providers. The Senior Associate will gather feedback to ensure the continuous improvement of the TA Process and will assist our MEL expert in the monitoring of nutrition impact of SMEs.
Key Responsibilities include
Identify technical assessment needs of SMEs operating in food value chains that are potential investees for the N3F Fund, working together with the investment officers at our partner asset manager, Incofin Investment Management
Actively participate in the design of technical assistance support packages tailored to individual SMEs and group training according to common needs in the portfolio.
Perform matchmaking between TA requirements and service providers, coordinate engagements between GAIN, service providers, and our beneficiaries.
Coordinate the implementation of TA projects between the service provider and the SME.
Fine-tune documented procedures, monitoring mechanisms, and feedback forms for the provision of TA to SMEs.
Identify and perform due diligence on a roster of qualified service providers in N3F’s scoping countries.
Coordinate collaborations with external impact consulting firms, with the support of our MEL specialist and the Senior Lead of Innovative Finance.
About you
The ideal candidate should have experience monitoring impact for technical assistance with significant experience in a technical assistance facility / accelerator / incubator. You should be able to identify technical assessment needs of SMEs operating in food value chains that are potential investees for the N3F Fund, working together with the investment officers at our partner asset manager, Incofin Investment Management.
The post holder should have experience matchmaking between TA requirements and service providers, coordinate engagements between GAIN, service providers, and our beneficiaries. Be able to coordinate the implementation of TA projects between the service provider and the SME.
You should be able to identify and perform due diligence on a roster of qualified service providers in N3F’s scoping countries. Familiarity with Kobo for data collection is preferred. The post holder should be able to operate within the private and public sectors to effectively liaise with food enterprises and development agencies and have knowledge of food value chains. An education background with a post graduate level degree in a relevant field such as business administration, food value chain, economics, or a relevant field is required.
About our Offer
The starting gross salary on offer for this role is as below for each advertised location.
Abuja, Nigeria- NGN 9’558’516 – NGN 10’907’460 gross per annum depending on experience.
Cotonou, Benin- XOF 10’351’440 – XOF 11’811’504 gross per annum depending on experience.
GAIN has a fair and competitive salary structure that allows for annual progression subject to good performance. In addition, GAIN offers a total of 37 days holiday per year (including annual leave, public holidays and additional office closure days), an attractive pension scheme and competitive insurance cover including health, travel and life assurance. We are committed to the health of our staff, especially in these challenging times, and have developed a programme of wellbeing that includes flexible and hybrid working, additional leave allowances, wellbeing days, mindfulness coaching and access to independent and confidential counselling.
GAIN also has a strong commitment to professional development. We will support you to grow in your career through both formal and informal training, and are committed to providing opportunities through internal recruitment, secondments, and promotion. All of this is delivered in a supportive and collaborative environment.
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