Responsibilities

• Partnerships Development
  Specific Responsibilities:

  • Mobilize networks, build partnerships and collaborations in order to drive growth in identification, selection and engagement of various stakeholder;
  • Conduct thorough financial and non-financial due diligence, present and recommend the most relevant investment opportunities to different stakeholder;
  • Manage proposal processes and pipelines; from capture, through technical development, drafting, narrative reviews, and finalization;
  • Participate in technical design, including identifying and analyzing potential solutions in response to development challenges through desk research, stakeholder interviews, and ideation with the leadership and technical team;
  • Conduct market research to identify new business opportunities; support the expansion of Ikore’s institutional donor pipeline. Identify and pre-qualify new bid opportunities through online and offline searches;
  • Track and assess new project opportunities and proactively contribute to marketing efforts to build a pipeline of high-quality business opportunities;
  • Collaborate with other colleagues to determine the most viable, cost-effective approach to pursue new business opportunities;
  • Meet with potential investors/funders/partners to present company offerings and negotiate business deals.

  Project Implementation Support
  Specific Responsibilities:

  • Support with implementing and managing changes and interventions to ensure project goals are achieved;
  • Facilitate meeting with stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding project issues and decisions on services;
  • Produce accurate and timely reporting of project status throughout its life cycle;
  • Analyze, evaluate, and overcome project risks, and resource management, and produce project reports for management and stakeholders;
  • Coordinate the projects and their interdependencies;
  • Liaise with international and local partners on all projects and interventions;
  • Support with Identifying rural market opportunities, design strategies/intervention guides for developing these market areas/commodity chains, and lead implementation.

  • Startup and Technology Management
    Specific Responsibilities:

    • Evaluate how new business models can be applied effectively to create new value, understand how Ikore can best leverage the assets of corporate partners to create competitive advantage, examine market size and build business case;
    • Gather information from the ecosystems to assess market opportunities and feasibility of innovation concepts;
    • Develop compelling product strategies, competitive analysis, roadmaps, and product requirements documents (PRDs) to communicate vision.

    What will you gain?

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    • You will embark on an exciting and flexible, 16-week journey in which you will benefit from:
      • Mentoring from experts in the field;
      • Exposure to various business and soft skills;
      • Monthly stipend between NGN150,000-NGN250,000
      • Successful trainees will be retained.
    • In addition to helping young graduates learn skills that can be applied in future endeavors, this program will support the graduate’s professional development and will give them skills that will enhance their portfolios.