A start-up firm in Abuja is looking for a motivated Contract Management Officer. The Contract Management Officer’s task is to ensure consistent management of all proposals and contracts. This generally includes oversight of the contract management process, as well as development of specific standards for bidding and submission, contract negotiations and document management. The Contract Management Officer’s role in the contract development process requires close collaboration with various departments, including business operations, project management and finance & accounts.

As per the requirements of the position, the successful candidate will be expected to travel from time to time to locations where the Company is executing jobs for Clients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
 Oversee organizational contract development and management activities, and enforce organizational principles of integrity and compliance.
 Ensure that contracts and proposals are properly entered into organizational databases and securely maintained.
 Perform appropriate administrative and operational research to support proposal and contract development.
 Assure accuracy and appropriateness of bid document text and attachments.
 Serve as primary organizational contact during bid submissions and tender openings.
 Maintain deadlines on deliverables and communicate on an ongoing basis with business partners and internal clients about contractual issues.
 Review contractual performance of both parties to ensure compliance with terms and to identify conflicts or changes requiring resolution at contract renewal.

QUALIFICATIONS (ACADEMIC AND EXPERIENCE)
 OND or its equivalent
 1 – 3 years’ experience relating to contracts and procurement matters

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
 Knowledge of open competitive bidding and procurement process
 Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills
 Ability to organize, prioritize and undertake work in an accurate and timely manner
 Excellent verbal reasoning skills
 Excellent numerical ability; comfortable with numerical data and able to manipulate them
 Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines
 Ability to logically analyse data and evaluate information
 Ability to identify and solve problems
 Ability to influence and negotiate
 Ability to think strategically and creatively
 Ability to prepare and deliver presentations

Interested individuals should forward their CVs to hrcnergy@gmail.com

Deadline for submission is 14th September, 2018

Our client, a start-up firm in Abuja is looking for a motivated Contract Management Officer. The Contract Management Officer’s task is to ensure consistent management of all proposals and contracts for the organisation. This generally includes oversight of the contract management process, as well as development of specific standards for bidding and submission, contract negotiations and document management. The Contract Management Officer’s role requires close collaboration with various departments, including business operations, project management and finance & accounts.

As per the requirements of the position, the successful candidate will be expected to travel from time to time to locations where the Company is executing jobs for Clients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Oversee organizational contract development and management activities, and enforce organizational principles of integrity and compliance.
- Ensure that contracts and proposals are properly entered into organizational databases and securely maintained.
- Develop standards for contracts/bid submissions, payment terms, general language and provisions.
- Perform appropriate administrative and operational research to support proposals and contract development.
- Conduct contract strategy meetings to identify issues and client requirements, facilitate pricing discussions, and obtain senior management input on timelines and deliverables.
- Draft contractual provisions based on strategy discussions, senior management input, and organizational needs and expectations.
- Assure accuracy and appropriateness of bid document text and attachments.
- Serve as primary organizational contact during bid submissions and tender openings.
- Maintain deadlines on deliverables and communicate on an on-going basis with business partners and internal clients about contractual issues.
- Review contractual performance of both parties to ensure compliance with terms and to identify conflicts or changes requiring resolution at contract renewal.

QUALIFICATIONS (ACADEMIC AND EXPERIENCE)
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent
- 2 – 3 years’ experience relating to contracts and procurement matters
- Experience in negotiating high value/strategic agreements

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Knowledge of Project Management and open competitive bidding
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills
- Ability to organize, prioritize and undertake work in an accurate and timely manner
- Excellent verbal reasoning skills
- Excellent numerical ability; comfortable with numerical data and able to manipulate them
- Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines
- Ability to logically analyse data and evaluate information
- Ability to identify and solve problems
- Ability to influence and negotiate
- Ability to think strategically and creatively
- Ability to prepare and deliver presentations

Interested applicants should forward their CVs with a cover letter to recruitment@hrcnergy.com not later than 28th February, 2018.

I nominate Bola "Koko" Onadele as Finance Minister. We really need fresh and vibrant people to run the affairs of this country. Take a look at the profile of Bola Onadele

Bola Onadele (Koko)
Bola Onadele is the Founder and President of FDHL. He is known as Koko in the Nigerian financial markets.

He is a Second Class Upper Division graduate of Economics from the University of Ibadan. In 1989, he was awarded the ICAN prize for the best overall performance in the November professional examinations. He completed his articleship with Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers).

Thereafter he commenced his banking career with First City Merchant Bank (FCMB) in 1990 and later moved to Nigeria International Bank (Citibank Nigeria) in 1991. He left Citibank Nigeria in 1998 to re-join FCMB as the Vice President, Treasury & Financial Services Group. In 2002, he assumed duty as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Trust Bank of Africa (Merchant Bankers) to champion the turn around of the bank. He was the Chief Operating Officer of Leadbank between 2003 and 2005.

Koko is a leading banker in the areas of derivatives products. In 2001, he structured the $130 million foreign exchange swap that facilitated the payment of the $285 million license fee for Econet Wireless (now known as Zain Nigeria).

He championed a number of market development activities of the Money Market Association of Nigeria (MMAN) now Financial Market Dealers Association (FMDA) especially in the areas of financial infrastructure. He served on the FX Advisory and Market Development Committees of the MMAN between 1997 and 2000. Koko also served as the Chairman of the pilot committee on the establishment of a Futures Exchange in Nigeria. He is also a commentator on the financial markets and delivers papers on market risk management.

He championed the two-way quoting system in trading in the foreign exchange market, the Nigerian Inter-bank Offered Rate (NIBOR), Nigerian Inter-bank Foreign Exchange Index (NIFEX) and the introduction of screen based dealing in Nigeria.

In 2002, he developed e-Noodles, a Foreign Exchange/Money Market course with an electronic FX trading game and in 2005 he successfully developed Gilts Game, a bond trading course with electronic bond trading simulation and Zerocs, a Treasury bills course with a simulation game.

He has had considerable exposure to the international financial markets. He has developed an over 10-year relationship with the British Bankers’ Association which he consults regularly to the benefit of the Nigerian financial markets.

He was a facilitator for the Citibank Bourse Game (Foreign Exchange & Money Market Simulation) course in Nigeria and Ghana between 1997 and 1998. He also served as faculty member of the Lagos Business School/MBC International Bank Treasury Simulation Course. He is currently the Head of FDHL Faculty. He served as a Director of the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) in 2000.

In 2000, he championed and facilitated the first ever Regulator (CBN) and Practitioners (R&P) workshop on Foreign Exchange Management issues in Nigeria.

Koko is an alumnus of the prestigious Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania-The Wharton School and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).

Koko won many laurels and recognitions for his professional competencies at Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) and Nigeria International Bank (Citibank Nigeria). He was voted the Most Valuable Staff in FCMB in 2000.

In December 2005, he spent one week on a bond market familiarisation tour in the United Kingdom calling on the Bank of England, British Bankers’ Association, International Assets Holding (a bond trading company) and the UK Debt Management Office.

Are you smart, intelligent, well spoken, unemployed, interested in a marketing job and resident in Abuja? Then forward your CV to honeypours@yahoo.com immediately. The position is to be filled as soon as possible.

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Head of sales & marketing dept, head of Human Resources dept, head of IT and technical dept, head of accounts dept and head of legal/regulatory dept are needed in Abuja Connect Ltd. If you have relevant experience in these areas, please forward your CV to careers@abujaconnect.com ASAP. Interviews are starting next week. All the best.

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As for the ETB test that was written last month, the result is out. U can check ur score at their Sanusi Fafunwa Office in VI Lagos. I wrote mine in Abuja but i sent someone to help me check it in Lagos when i heard thats where they were checking the result. We all don't know if we've passed yet since they are yet to fix a cut-off mark. I guess they want to determine the cut-off mark based on the overall performance of those that wrote the test. Their last cut-off mark i heard was 50%. I scored 55 in the test anyway. I'll advice u try to check ur score there. All the best.

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