NGO Jobs in Abuja –EnCompass seeks Gender and Inclusive Development,(Senior) Capacity Strengthening and Learning Specialist, and (Senior) Performance Monitoring Specialist candidates for an anticipated five-year United States Agency for International Development (USAID) monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) program in Nigeria. The position will be full-time and be based in Abuja with travel throughout the country.
Position Duties and Responsibilities-NGO Jobs in Abuja
The Gender and Inclusive Development Specialist will provide expertise in inclusive programming to technical assistance activities, ensuring the effective integration of gender- and vulnerability- sensitive approaches. Such duties may include designing and conducting gender analysis and assessments; supporting monitoring and evaluation; preparing high quality reports and technical resources; conducting field work; and designing and facilitating face-to-face and virtual trainings related to gender equality and female empowerment.
Position Requirements-NGO Jobs in Abuja
Qualifications
- Graduate degree in gender studies, international development, organizational development, social science, or a related field preferred
- No less than five (5) years of demonstrated experience in gender analysis, gender integration, and/or gender-based violence, with preference for work on USG-funded activities, preferably in Nigeria or West Africa
- Demonstrated experience applying a variety of participatory and strengths-based learning design and delivery approaches, blended learning and evidence-based learning theory desirable but not required
- Experience in monitoring and evaluation and/or capacity building highly preferred
Experience and Skills
- Ability to work with host-country governments at different levels
- Substantial experience in managing a team using mixed research methods of similar magnitude
- Strong communication, supervision, and management skills required
- Working knowledge of and experience with USG-funded program management, policies, regulations and procedures
- Strong familiarity with USAID CLA practices preferred
- Understanding of gender norms and social constraints in the Nigerian context required
- Nigerian citizens strongly encouraged to apply
- Familiarity with USAID/Nigeria Mission is preferred
- Excellent communication, both verbal and written English skills; capabilities in local language(s) highly preferred.
Position Duties and Responsibilities-NGO Jobs in Abuja
The (Senior) Capacity Strengthening and Learning Specialist will work to establish, build and maintain collaborative relationships with leading government and regional institutions, engaging them as partners and co-creators of capacity strengthening initiatives toward national and subnational entities. S/he will also look to identify and build relationships with local organizations in partner countries, and short-term technical assistance that can be engaged to deliver training and learning activities for the project.
S/he may be called upon to design training materials, deliver training, facilitate learning and communities of practice, develop learning agendas, design and maintain evaluation activities to determine effectiveness of capacity strengthening activities, and coordinate with project and partner support staff for training deliveries. S/he will be committed to use participatory and strengths-based learning design and delivery approaches, as well as blended learning and evidence-based learning theory in all activities.
Position Requirements
Qualifications
- Masters’ degree in international development, organizational development, social science, or a related field preferred
- No less than five (5) years of demonstrated experience in capacity strengthening and training for strengthen skill sets, preferably in the field of monitoring and evaluation. Experience should include experience designing curricula and materials for face-to-face and virtual training delivery, as well as facilitation of institutional strengthening processes.
Experience and Skills
- Experience building monitoring, evaluation and learning capacities of relevant stakeholders including implementers, funders, and government staff preferred
- Demonstrated experience applying a variety of participatory and strengths-based learning design and delivery approaches, blended learning and evidence-based learning theory
- Familiarity with e-learning tools, virtual Instructor-Led Trainings (vILT) on AdobeConnect, and other online instructional products highly desirable
- Experience building evaluative and learning capacities of USAID staff, implementing partners, and government counterparts highly preferred
- Experience managing complex relationships with a variety of stakeholders
- Strong familiarity with USAID’s Evaluation Policy and CLA practices preferred
- Understanding of knowledge management as it relates to USAID programs an asset
- Ability to work with host-country governments at different levels
- Strong communication, supervision, and management skills required
- Working knowledge of and experience with USG-funded program management, policies, regulations and procedures
- Previous work experience in Nigeria required
- Familiarity with USAID/Nigeria Mission is preferred
- Superior skills in written and verbal English required
- Proficiency in local language(s) greatly preferred
- Nigerian citizens are strongly encouraged to apply
Position Duties and Responsibilities-NGO Jobs in Abuja
The (Senior) Performance Monitoring Specialist will oversee technical assistance focused on monitoring systems. S/he will support USAID Mission and implementing partner staff with development of project and activity-level indicators, theories of change, and MEL plans to be incorporated in to Mission performance monitoring plans (PMPs). S/he may be tasked with reviewing PMP data, including baseline data collection and performance indicator data, and ensuring data quality and utility of all data.
The (Senior) Performance Monitoring Specialist may also assist Mission staff with data quality audits and site visits to assess data quality and activity performance. S/he will work closely with the Evaluation and Capacity Strengthening teams to support performance monitoring and program improvement.
Position Requirements-NGO Jobs in Abuja
Qualifications
- Masters’ degree in statistics, international development, organizational development, social science, or a related field preferred
- No less than five (5) years of demonstrated experience in operation and maintenance of data systems, preferably in the context of evaluating program impact.
- At least four (4) years conducting data collection, analysis, performance monitoring, or research
Experience and Skills
- Prior experience in indicator development (including context indicators), data collection and analysis, data quality assessments, and statistical methods.
- Demonstrated ability in using monitoring data to review programming, trends, and activity needs and willingness to be flexible and adaptable to respond to new information;
- Experience finding and collecting appropriate development data from third party sources
- Experience in the creation and use of spreadsheets and databases is desirable
- Experience managing complex relationships with a variety of stakeholders
- Strong familiarity with USAID’s Evaluation Policy and CLA practices preferred
- Understanding of knowledge management as it relates to USAID programs an asset
- Ability to work with host-country governments at different levels
- Strong communication, supervision, and management skills required
- Working knowledge of and experience with USG-funded program management, policies, regulations and procedures
- Previous work experience in Nigeria required
- Familiarity with USAID/Nigeria Mission is preferred
- Superior skills in written and verbal English required
- Proficiency in local language(s) greatly preferred
- Nigerian citizens are strongly encouraged to apply
