The Nigerian Economic Summit Group Job Vacancies for Executive Director, Policy Advocacy & Research and Executive Director, Marketing & Corporate Services

As part of our effort to effectively deliver on our mandate to provide a platform for fostering open and continuous dialogue on Nigeria’s economic development, we seek to recruit experienced and motivated individuals with the right complement of technical and managerial skills to fill key positions within our management team.
Executive Director, Policy Advocacy & Research (Ref.EDPR)
• Reporting to the Director General, the successful candidate will have overall responsibility for leading and developing the policy advocacy. Research and information services functions in line with organisational objectives. He! She will oversee the organisation’s research programmes and champion open dialogue and advocacy between private and public sector leaders towards sustainable growth and development.

Qualifications. Knowledge. Experience and Skills

• Masters degree (Ph.D Preferred) in statistics. Economics. Political science. Public policy. International relations or a relevant discipline.

• Very good appreciation of the Nigerian economic environment, key industry dynamics and ongoing private sector development initiatives.

• Excellent understanding of key policy levers and instruments and ability to adapt relevant influencing and advocacy strategies at the national and international level to a variety of decision makers and high level audiences.

• Excellent knowledge of conducting both qualitative and quantitative research studies! Evaluation and ability to produce research publications and articles for a variety of audiences.

• Excellent understanding of innovative knowledge management practices and information management systems.

• Minimum of twelve (12) years for Ph.D holder (fifteen (15) years for Masters), relevant experience. Of which at least eight (8) must have been at an executiveJ strategic management level.

• Excellent IT skills. Especially programming and statistical software (Such as SPSS).

• Very strong leadership, Relationship Management, communication (written and oral). Presentation/ Facilitation, Project management, Analytical, problem solving, organisational skills and working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools,

Executive Director, Marketing & Corporate Services (Ref. EDMCS)
Reporting to the Director General. the successful candidate will facilitate the achievemeni of business and operational strategies by ensuring there is an effective synergy between the people. Systems and processes ofthe organisation. He/she will be responsible for overseeing and coordinating the activities of the organisation’s corporate services specifically Marketing. Communication. HR. Finance and Admin,
Qualifications. Knowledge.Experience and Skills
• Minimum of a second class or its equivalent in any social science relevant discipline with relevant professional

Qualifications.

• An MBAor equivalent postgraduate degreewill be an added advantage.

• Proven track record of engaging. Sustaining and expanding a broad donor base. InclUding demonstrated major gift fundraising success.

• Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and extemal key public and private sector stakeholders to ensure proper messaging of organisation’s key focus areas and service offerings.

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of HRM strategies, systems and leading practices in human resource management i.e. recruitment. Manpower planning. Career management. Etc.

• Hands on experience in financial planning, analysis and reporting; and appreciation of relevant accounting systems and tools.

• Proven experience with strategic thinking, driving change and promotion of continuous workp1ace improvement.

• Minimum of twelve (12) years relevant experience, of which at least eight (8) must have been at an executive! Strategic management level.

• Very strong leadership, relationship management communication (written and oral), presentation/ Facilitation, Project management, analytical, problem solving, organisational skills and working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools.
Method of Application

Qualified candidates with requisite experience should forward their detailed curriculum vitae to: with the position and refernce number as the subjet. Deadline for submission of applications is 4th May 2010

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