Intervention Coordinator - Enterprise Growth  Ibadan

📌 OPPORTUNITY OVERVIEW International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is actively recruiting for a Intervention Coordinator - Enterprise Growth position in  Ibadan. This is an excellent opportunity for professionals in the Agriculture / Agro / Allied sector looking to advance their careers in Nigeria's dynamic job market.

🎯 IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE We are seeking talented individuals with the following profile: • Experience Level: 7 years • Educational Background: Master or equivalent • Industry Focus: Agriculture / Agro / Allied • Location Preference: in  Ibadan

💼 WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS IN NIGERIA The Intervention Coordinator - Enterprise Growth position is an important role within Nigeria's Agriculture / Agro / Allied sector, offering meaningful career development and professional growth opportunities.

📈 CAREER DEVELOPMENT INSIGHTS This role in Agriculture / Agro / Allied offers valuable career progression opportunities aligned with your experience level and professional aspirations in Nigeria.

📋 APPLICATION GUIDANCE When applying for this Intervention Coordinator - Enterprise Growth position, ensure your CV highlights: • Relevant experience matching the 7 years requirement • Educational qualifications in line with Master • Specific achievements in the Agriculture / Agro / Allied field • Any certifications or specialized training • Proficiency in relevant software and tools

🌍 NIGERIA JOB MARKET CONTEXT The Agriculture / Agro / Allied sector in Nigeria continues to show strong demand for skilled professionals. With Nigeria's growing economy and increasing foreign investment, this position represents a valuable opportunity in the current job market.

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The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future. We are  recruiting to fill the position below:

 Job Title: Intervention Coordinator - Enterprise Growth

Job ID: IITA/P&C/NRS2026-046

Location: Ibadan, Oyo Duties

Provide overall technical leadership, coordination, and quality assurance for Component 2 (Agri-Enterprise Growth) across Nigeria, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, ensuring alignment with the I-Youth 2.0 theory of change and results framework. Develop and coordinate country-specific implementation plans for agribusiness parks, cooperatives, finance and market linkages, input support, technology adoption, climate-smart innovations, and youth helpdesk interventions. Ensure interventions are appropriately adapted to country-specific regulatory, market, institutional, and operational contexts while maintaining consistent implementation standards across the three countries. Oversee the establishment, strengthening, and operationalization of agribusiness parks as sustainable enterprise hubs providing youth with access to productive infrastructure, technologies, inputs, services, and markets. Coordinate the establishment and strengthening of youth agribusiness cooperatives and clusters, including appropriate governance, mentorship, and enterprise support systems. Lead and coordinate partnerships with financial institutions, investors, off-takers, aggregators, input suppliers, government agencies, and other ecosystem actors to strengthen youth access to finance, inputs, and markets. Oversee the provision of starter and booster support and facilitate sustainable access to quality inputs, equipment, and other productive resources for participating youth. Coordinate the adoption and dissemination of relevant digital technologies and climate smart agricultural innovations in collaboration with IITA, CGIAR technical teams, and other partners. Provide technical guidance and performance oversight to service providers, mentors, and country teams responsible for delivering Component 2 interventions. Monitor the performance and utilization of agribusiness parks, cooperatives, and other enterprise growth interventions and facilitate corrective actions where required. Coordinate closely with Country Coordinators, field teams, the PMO, and the MEAL function to monitor implementation against approved work plans, budgets, indicators, and enterprise growth targets. Identify implementation risks, bottlenecks, and emerging opportunities and recommend appropriate actions to strengthen Component 2 performance. Contribute timely and high-quality technical inputs to project, management, and donor reports and support documentation of enterprise growth results, lessons, and good practices. Represent Component 2 at relevant technical meetings, stakeholder engagements, and donor forums, as required. Ensure compliance with IITA policies, donor requirements, safeguarding standards, and applicable environmental and social safeguards. Perform other related duties as assigned by the Executive Manager, I-Youth 2.0, or the Chief Executive Officer, Youth in Agribusiness.

Master's Degree in Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture, Business Administration, Enterprise/Entrepreneurship Development, Economics, Development Studies, or a related discipline is required. A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in agribusiness/enterprise development, value chain development, or youth economic empowerment programming is required.

Competencies

Demonstrated experience designing or managing interventions related to agribusiness incubation/parks, cooperative or enterprise cluster development, access to finance, and market linkages. Experience working across multiple countries or managing multi-location technical interventions, ideally within West Africa. Experience managing or coordinating service providers and technical partners on donor-funded programs. Familiarity with digital agronomic advisory tools (e.g., AKILIMO) and climate-smart agriculture approaches is desirable. Demonstrated experience engaging financial institutions, aggregators, off-takers and private sector actors in support of enterprise growth. Strong technical knowledge of agribusiness development, enterprise growth, and value chain financing. Excellent program coordination and multi-country management skills. Strong partnership building, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills. Sound analytical, planning and problem-solving abilities. Strong monitoring, reporting and results-orientation. Excellent communication, presentation and report-writing skills. High level of professionalism, integrity, cultural sensitivity and accountability. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and relevant project management or data tools. Willingness and ability to travel frequently and extensively within Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Renumeration

We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment. Application Closing Date

10th September, 2026. How to Apply

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