Project Development Officer at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

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: Project Development Officer

Ref: IITA-HR-NRS2019-021
Location: Ibadan
Recruitment Type: National (2-year renewable contract)

Duties
Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:

Review and support scientists in developing compliant budgets during project development process;
Review call guidelines and provide guidance in developing proposal guidelines;
Prepare, review, update and manage database of station costs including staff administrative and operational costs to be used in the development of proposal budget;
Update master document of costs to facilitate budget development and review;
Keep track of RSS and other instructional costs introduced by the management;
Provide budget development support and training to scientists and staff at IITA as necessary;
Compile and continuously update database of donor budget templates and budgetary requirements;
Revise and update IITA Budget templates and liaise with HR and Finance on staff cost clarification as well as supply chain and other service providers on other market value of various costs;
Support the unit head in developing annual budgets for the unit, track PDAU expenditure by submitting a monthly expenditure report and follow up with finance directory with queries as necessary;
Keep track of key donor budgetary templates and update as necessary;
Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications

B.Sc/HND in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics or related field with a minimum of five (5) years’ working experience in a structured working environment e.g. private sector or non-governmental organization.
Experience in budget making is imperative, and those with experience in research environments will have a competitive edge.

Competencies
The ideal candidate must: