Rural Institution, Youth And Gender Consultants:

Company: IPMC LIMITED 
Skills: Agriculture
Experience: 10 + Years 
Education: Bachelors/3-5 yr Degree 
Location: LAGOS, NIGERIA 


ORGANIZATION SUMMARY
IPMC is one of Nigeria oilfield service companies providing innovative solutions, technology, and services to the oil and gas industry. The Company operates in Nigeria and has a network of, manufacturing, service, research and development, and training facilities.
It delivers innovative technologies and services designed to meet the world's current and future energy needs in a safe, ethical, and sustainable manner. Grounded by our core values and inspired by our world-class people, we are committed to being a trusted business partner to those we serve.

Responsibilities.
1. assist in the periodic review of the institutional Mapping of existing Farmers Organizations(FOs) in the nine programme states so as to fine-tune and upgrade the strategy of intervention and other activities to support the FOs capacity 
2. Contribute to strengthening the FOs level of governance, capacity in designing and review of VCAP, business management performance, negotiating skills of the groups and their capacities for service /input procurement through training.
3. Strengthen the group's ability to assess /leverage resources from financial institutions  through appropriate capacity building programmes and activities
4. Provide Technical support for the strengthening of the FOs in the areas of expanding exciting businesses, creating new ones, reduction in production costs and evolution of robust networks within and between the groups in the products area
5. assist in the formation of new and viable FOs using such simple tools as group-inventorization and operational guidelines. Such guidelines would contain the following: membership, the purpose of the group reflecting their business interest, governance structure, tenure of office, meeting regularities, modalities for admission and withdrawal of membership, resource-mobilization and gender composition
6. At appropriate times, organize capacity building programmes on group management & dynamics
7. Assist the programme to conduct an appraisal of the farmer's organisations to identify capacity and productivity gaps as well as monitor progress on the impact/result of previous training 
8. Develop flexible training manuals to address the identified gaps, train the farmers based on the need and curriculum

Qualifications:
i. Masters or higher-level degree in Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Education and other relevant disciplines. 
ii. Minimum of 10 years post qualification experience including at least 2 years in implementation of projects integrating strengthening of Farmers organizations and gender issue. knowledge in participatory approaches and gender mainstreaming
iii. Proven record in the field of project implementation, integrating and strengthening of FOs and gender mainstreaming activities/strategies
iv. Good writing skills and computer literacy