ND Link Project Manager and 4 Other Positions - Port Harcourt

Vacancy
Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) is established to provide support for socio-economic development programs in the Niger Delta. The foundation will be planning, developing, and funding programs in partnership with other donors and implementing organizations from the public and private sector. PIND seeks to create a dynamic, multi-stakeholder partnership that takes full advantage of the synergies involving diverse organizations and interests. The foundation is seeking for qualified candidates to fill the vacant positions below;

NDLink Project Manager

Job Location – Port Harcourt
NDLink is an online information and communications platform for development actors working in the Niger Delta. It will play a critical role in allowing organizations to build partnerships, expand capacity, and coordinate with one another to achieve sustainable development in the Niger Delta region.
The NDLink Project Manager will be responsible for the overall direction and implementation of NDLink.

Duties and Responsibilities
•Research and keep current on development trends and issues in the Niger Delta
•Plan and execute the implementation of a strategy to position NDLink as an efficient central system to manage and distribute information on Niger Delta development to relevant audiences
•Lead NDLink’s transition towards being a financially self-sustainable membership-based platform
•Oversee a marketing and communications plan to highlight the initiative as a model globally for other local development issues
•Promote proactive and cooperative relationships among development organizations by working collaboratively with potential partners and other stakeholders
•Bring innovative approaches to NDLink to continuously improve the platform’s ability to deliver efficiently.
•Oversee all daily operations of NDLink platform
•Lead, support and evaluate the ND Link team
•Create, track and manage NDLink project budget
•Convert information from NDLink to actionable knowledge through regular reviews and analysis
•Provide project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends

Educational Qualification
A bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Social Sciences, Business Administration or any relevant field. A Master’s degree in a relevant field is an added advantage

Knowledge, skills and experience
•Good knowledge and practical experience of business development approaches with an in-depth understanding of business operations.
•Strong knowledge of Project Management processes and tools
•Demonstrated ability to establish and manage effective relationship and partnerships with key stakeholders, both online and offline
•Experience working with diverse team including web developers, journalists and graphic artists
•Excellent negotiation skills
•Excellent decision making and analytical skills
•Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
•Ability to self-motivate and motivate others is strongly desirable
•Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
•12 – 14 years experience relevant experience, at least 7 of which must be in management position
•Demonstrate openness to change and ability to manage complexities
•Willingness to travel regularly to states within the Niger Delta region
•Good contextual knowledge of local issues, community priorities as well as social and cultural constraints and realities
•Good knowledge of social media
•Understanding of online marketing techniques
•Experience in project start-up activities

NDLink Content Coordinator
Job Location – Port Harcourt
The Content Coordinator will grow an online community of members and subscribers by gathering and producing up-to-date and high-quality content. He/she will need to have an understanding of the target audience and its information needs to accomplish the following;
Duties and responsibilities
•Gather, research, write, review, edit, and organize web content
•Develop and maintain relationships with primary sources, content partners, and member organizations
•Foster a sense of community around NDLink by monitoring key online conversations to identify trends, write and post information items to influence trends
•Contribute to the development and implementation of online marketing and outreach strategies, including a social media strategy
•Monitor benchmarks for measuring the portal’s impact and report progress to PIND and other stakeholders
•Ensure an appropriate level of integration between NDLink, PIND and P4P website
•Support content management for PIND’s website
•Develop appropriate processes to enable the capture, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information/knowledge between NDLink and PIND’s internal Knowledge Management System

Educational Qualification
A good degree in Humanities, Social Sciences, Business Administration or any relevant field.

Knowledge, skills and experience
•Excellent written communication skills including exceptional demonstrated ability to write engaging communications for a broad online audience
•Ability to work in a fast paced, responsive, “live” environment
•Demonstrated strong research and database management skills
•Ability to summarize complex information clearly and concisely
•Ability to juggle multiple tasks within tight deadlines
•Excellent time management and organizational skills
•Demonstrated excellent attention to detail and accuracy focus
•Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills and strong customer service ethics
•Analytical and problem solving skills
•Demonstrated positive, solutions focused and creative working style
•Demonstrated good judgement and ability to operate within an internal approval process
•Experience working in the digital industry, understanding of Content Management Systems (CMS), email, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
•Effective influencing skills, including the demonstrated ability to build positive relationships internally and externally
•Familiarity with development issues in the Niger Delta region

Method of Application
Application and CV’s with the job title clearly indicated as the subject of the mail should be sent to; pind@rhizomeng.com. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Applicants from any of the 9 states in the Niger Delta will be given a priority over other applicants. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, August 16th, 2013