Business Development Officer (Enterprise Development) at INTERSOS Nigeria – MMC and Jere, Borno (2 Openings)

INTERSOS Nigeria is recruiting two Business Development Officers (Enterprise Development) in MMC and Jere, Borno. Reporting to the Livelihood Project Manager, the positions support the commercial sustainability of ten livelihood facilities across MMC, Jere and Mafa.

Enterprise assessment and planning

• Evaluate each facility’s products, output, costs, pricing, revenue, capacity and existing financial records.
• Assess fish-farm profitability with the Aquaculture Officer, including unit cost, breakeven and losses.
• Develop realistic business plans with enterprise members, including production, staffing, pricing, working capital, cash-flow and profitability.
• Create pricing tools for tailoring, aquaculture, feed, irrigation and seedlings, including fair internal feed transfer prices.
• Present plans for approval to members’ general assemblies and LGA oversight structures.

Financial governance and training

• Design revenue-sharing and cost-recovery arrangements for operational costs, asset replacement, members and community/landowner shares.
• Help enterprises establish asset renewal reserves, appropriate bank accounts, dual-signatory controls and cash rules.
• Build practical cashbooks, sales and stock records, fee registers, order records and monthly profit statements; mentor treasurers and record keepers.
• Publish monthly financial information and support independent community and LGA oversight, including social audits.
• Support cooperative registration, digital record-keeping and gradual replacement of transition stipends with enterprise earnings.
• Train at least 300 people in entrepreneurship, financial literacy and cooperative management, targeting at least 50% women and 30% youth.
• Link at least 200 participants to VSLAs or other financial services and support access to working capital for at least 100 participants.

Monitoring and safeguarding

• Track revenue, costs, profit, reserves and cost-recovery for each facility and contribute to MEAL and WFP reporting.
• Identify financially weak enterprises, improve the business plans and contribute to handover readiness assessments.
• Ensure fees are affordable and inclusive; safeguard enterprise funds and report suspected fraud.
• Follow PSEA, confidentiality, safeguarding, security and humanitarian principles.

Requirements

• B.Sc. or HND in Business Administration, Accounting, Economics, Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, Cooperative Studies or a related field; a master’s degree or MBA is desirable.
• At least four years’ experience in enterprise development, agribusiness, cooperatives or livelihoods programming.
• Hands-on experience with business plans, pricing, cash-flow models, bookkeeping, community training and finance coaching.
• Experience in NGO, UN or government programmes in north-east Nigeria.
• Advanced spreadsheet skills, numerical judgement, facilitation and integrity.
• Fluent English and spoken Hausa; Kanuri is advantageous.
• Desirable familiarity with agricultural value chains, VSLAs, microfinance and shared-asset cost recovery.