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There are 2 vacancies opened in a project environment – Associate Consultant (Salary range per month: N 225,000 – N 325,000 plus annual allowance worth N 1,200,000) and Project Analyst (Salary range per month: N 115,000 – N 185,000 plus annual allowance worth N 840,000). This is kind of urgent as both vacancies proposed start date is 1^st of September 2014 with a 3-month probation period. Kindly send CVs to “me at dipotepede dot org”. Please see details below for each opening:

  1.Associate Consultant Job Description and Profile

Grade level: Business Lead, Salary range per month: N 225,000 – N 325,000 plus annual allowance worth N 1,200,000

Proposed starting date: 1^st of September 2014 with a 3 month probation period.

The Associate Consultants are the professionals who evaluate the business and technical fields. He or she has to identify the problems, offer recommendations and assist in implementing the proposed solutions for the organization. He or she has to participate in the important client based meetings. The consultants also need to fulfill the management related tasks such as working with the managers for defining the hypotheses, developing of the commercialized insights etc.

Associate Consultant Duties and Responsibilities

• The consultant has the prime responsibility to lead different modules of project works and driving analytical insights.
• It is also needed to provide the coaching to the analysts in the key research and data securing activities.
• The duty also includes review the researching work properly so needs to direct and provide the quality control for team’s analytical and research work.
• He or she has to work for the building complex economical models to assess the influence of tactical options on the future performance of the products.
• The responsibility also includes undertaking the analytical projects consisting of the adaptive analysis.
• He or she needs to help the managers and partners in defining the hypotheses.
• He or she has to develop the insights of commercial nature and communicate the results to the clients.
• It is also necessary to provide the strong foundation for the career growth so develop the novel management and strategic tools.
• He or she is responsible for reviewing and summarizing the internal data of the client.
• It is needed to maintain the collaboration with the case team members to derive trends, conclusions and recommendations based on the analyses.

Associate Consultant Education, Training and Qualifications

• The person needs to have the past working experience in the related field.
• He or she should have strong academic background, for example, having a Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science or a related field.
• The most preferable degree for the job is the MBA degree and familiarity with Microsoft is highly preferable.
• The Associate Consultant needs to have Project Management certifications – PRINCE2 Practitioner and or PMP.

Associate Consultant Job Skills and Specifications

• The person needs to have the excellent communication skills both verbal and written to do the job.
• He or she should have the good presentation skills.
• He or she should have the strong analytical skills to analyse the different aspects carefully.
• The other skills required are the customer service and interpersonal skills.
• He or she should be able to advise people correctly on different important issues.
• The person needs to have the qualities of being a good leader.
• He or she should have the organizational abilities to do the organization effectively.

2. Project Analyst Job Profile and Descriptions

Grade level: Business Lead, Salary range per month: N 115,000 – N 185,000 plus annual allowance worth N 840,000

Proposed starting date: 1^st of September 2014 with a 3 month probation period.

Project Analysts basically provide the support to the project managers in managing, planning, and monitoring key projects from conceptions through implementation. They have to perform a variety of tasks such as gather and analyze data to establish and maintain corporate business policies, processes, and procedures in order to provide support to departments, preparing various reports that cover forecast reports, budget status, and other management related reports.

Duties and Responsibilities

A person working as a project analyst will have to fulfill the wide range of responsibilities and they are as following:

• It will be the duty of project analyst to provide the help in coordinating in the preparation of external and internal external reports
• He or she will have to do the work related to collecting, analyzing and summarizing information from departments.
• He or she will have to report time to time on project deliverables and schedules
• He or she has to do the planning also and should work up on overall project planning conception to implementation.
• He or she has to monitor the reports related to the expense and income and program revenue as well.
• It will be the duty to develop, design and establish the reporting standards and principles for the company.
• He or she has to oversee timely that program execution is on target or not.
• He or she has to study and will have to assist in the initiation process by conducting studies and research

Skills and Specifications

As the job of a project analyst is very vital and crucial so it needed a lot of skills and specifications and they are as following:

• The candidate should have strong and sound knowledge of fiscal planning, business case development, and contract management to do the job effectively.
• He or she should have to develop the methods and procedures so should have very strong knowledge of program application
• The candidate needs to possess very solid general management, leadership, and organizational skills to organize everything.
• He or she should have the ability to correspond both in writing ideas and orally and should have extraordinary communication skills.
• It will be very necessary to analyze the situation effectively and should have the ability to analyze issues systematically.
• He or she should have the creative ability and analyzing ability so will be able to recommend practical ways using innovation,
• The candidate should have the ability of good judgment, creativity and strategic thinking in the situations.

Education and Qualifications

• BASIC DEGREE: The basic degree, which is required for the job, is that the candidate should at least have a Bachelor’s degree in any field.
• It will be added as an advantage if the candidate will have a Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, or accounting or any related field
• Project Management certifications – PRINCE2 Practitioner and or PMP