Latest Job Vacancies at Girl Hub in Nigeria Today
2015
Girl Hub is a strategic collaboration between the Department
for International Development (DFID) and the NIKE Foundation,
designed to bring together the expertise of both organisation
to transform the lives of adolescent girls. Our aim is to shift
the social norms that hold girls back, and drive better
investment that directly benefit girls.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: GHN Policy Advocacy
Consultant
Job Location: Abuja
Consultancy Purpose
- The Kano state government has shown commitment and
investment in girls’ education through the provision of
services and funds to support girls’ education. However, the
manner in which these services have been provided, albeit, well
intentioned, have been mostly based on the interest and
commitment of the Governor and not necessarily on a
well-grounded policy. The concern, therefore, is that a change
in government could result in a reversal of these education
programmes of government, if the new government does not have
as much interest in girls’ education as the present one. To
prevent this from happening, GHN wishes to work with the Kano
state government to develop a comprehensive girls’ education
policy. The purpose of this consultancy is to develop a draft
education policy for Kano state based on the policy
pronouncements of the government and best practices from around
the world.
Scope of Work
The consultant will:
- Consult will all relevant Kano state government officials
to understand the programmes for girls education in the state
and get their buy in for a girls education policy.
- Review all Kano state government policies, policy
statements and pronouncements on girls education.
- Consult with other education programmes in Kano state
(ESSPIN, dRPC, and others) to understand existing interventions
for girls education in Kano state.
- Review other girls education policies from around the
world.
- Produce a report that details all the findings in Kano
state including challenges, interventions and successes in
girls education by government, donors and NGOs .
- Produce a draft policy document which will incorporate the
Kano government’s policy statements and already existing
programmes for girls as well as best practices from around the
world .
- Conduct a debriefing session for GHN and relevant Kano
state government officials.
- Finalize the draft document incorporating comments from the
debriefing sessions.
Key Skills and Experiences
- A relevant degree in Education, Humanities, Arts, Social
Sciences or Education.
- Good understanding of the Kano state education landscape
(Education Ministries, SUBEB or Secondary Schools Management
Board or other relevant parastatal.)
- Good experience with policy formulation
- Good networks within Kano state government
- Excellent oral, written, presentation and communications
skills in English.
- Knowledge of partners working in the state on girls’
secondary school education.
- Knowledge of emerging global education trends.
- Having worked in Education system is an added advantage.
Deliverables:
- A concept note detailing how the study will be undertaken
- A detailed activity based timetable for the work
- A report that details all the findings in Kano state
including challenges, interventions and successes in girls
education by government, donors and NGOs
- A debriefing session for GHN and relevant Kano state
government officials
- A draft policy document which will incorporate the Kano
government’s policy statements and already existing programmes
for girls as well as best practices from around the world.
Job Title: Government/Development
Partners Sector Scoping Specialist
Job Location: Abuja
Consultancy Purpose
- To increase investments for adolescent girls and influence
the Nigerian government/ development programmes in favour of
adolescent girls, Girl Hub Nigeria will like to understand:
Government:
- What international framework that benefit adolescent girls
e.g. – CEDAW, CRC, etc., is Nigeria signed up to and to what
extent have they been domesticated.
- What policies and programmes are in place at the state and
federal government level that address or have the potential to
address adolescent girls’ needs
Donors/Develop Partners:
- Who are the donors and INGOs in Nigeria (including those
without a physical presence in Nigeria but fund initiatives in
the country?)
- What are their thematic and geographical areas of focus?
- What programmes are they implementing in Nigeria?
- Which ones target girls or have the potential to benefit
girls?
- What are their major challenges in implementing
projects/programmes for girls?
Consultancy Objective
- To carry out a thorough scoping of government policies and
programmes, and donor and development partner initiatives
across Nigeria, in order to inform Girl Hub’s understanding of
the development landscape, as it relates to adolescent girls.
Scope of Work
Government:
- Provide a detailed list of all government policies and
programmes at the state and federal level (if any) that
directly target adolescent girls
- Provide a detailed list of all government policies and
programmes at the state and federal level (if any) that
indirectly target adolescent girls
- Provide a detailed list of all government policies and
programmes at the state and federal level (if any) that may be
detrimental to adolescent girls
Donors/INGOs:
- Provide a detailed list of the donors and INGOs in Nigeria
- Identify their thematic and geographical areas of focus
- Identify which ones target girls and what are the
programmes/projects they are funding for girls
- Identify the programmes/projects not directly targeting
girls but have the potential to benefit girls
- Identify what are their major challenges in implementing
projects/programmes for girls
- Identify the entry points and potentials for Girl Hub to
partner and influence these initiatives
- Provide key contact details for the development partners
identified
- Consultant(s)/Consulting firm Deliverables:
- Submit an inception report within one week of
commissioning, that reflects understanding of Girl Hub’s unique
intervention approach and strategy, a comprehensive methodology
for the assignment and detailed workplan with timelines
- Develop data collection tools / frameworks
- Conduct desk research and interviews as required to
effectively map government policies and programmes as described
above
- Conduct all desk research and interviews with
donor/development partners as required to meet information
gathering objectives
- Submit a draft report of findings and recommendations for
review by Girl Hub. The draft report will be commented on and
returned to you within one week of submission
- Produce a revised final report latest one week after the
receipt of the draft report comments
Desired Qualifications
- Master degree in Public Policy, Business, International
Development, or related field
- At least 10 years’ experience in working with development
partners. Knowledge of the donor landscape in Nigeria will be
an advantage
- Demonstrated experience with similar public or development
sector landscaping projects
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English
required, including report development, writing and editing.
Job Title: Private Sector Scoping
Specialist
Job Location: Abuja
Consultancy Purpose
- With its strong links with the Nike Foundation, GHN
considers the private sector a key partner in Nigeria. The
private sector has the resources and expertise to provide the
skills and services girls need to improve their lives. In the
last decade or more, many multinational and national companies
have become more development oriented in their business
approach, increasing their CSR and creating foundations. Some
notable examples include the ENGINE project which is a
partnership between Coca Cola, Nike, DiLight, Mercy Corp and
Girl Hub; The Girls Education project which is a partnership
between Oando, Clinton Foundation and the British Council, etc.
- To increase investments for girls, Girl Hub needs to know
what social initiatives private sector organizations are
investing in, both in general as well as for girls in
particular. It is in this regard that GHN is seeking the
services of a consultant to carry out a thorough scoping of
private sector initiatives that are or could be relevant to
girls, across the five geo-political zones of Nigeria
Consultancy Objective
- To identify all possible private sector entities directly
or indirectly financing/engaged in development with particular
focus on existing private sector entities supporting
initiatives for adolescent girls.
- The analysis should aim to look across the themes of
education, health, safety and violence, economic empowerment
and girl’s voice, rights and participation.
- To collect detailed information on the nature, scope, terms
and level of their engagement in development with particular
focus on initiatives for girls
- To identify potential areas of investment for girls (e.g.
new assets and services) that are not currently being invested
in, but would be appropriate and interesting for private sector
organisations to consider
Scope of Work:
- Provide an overview of what private sector initiatives
exist for girls, across each of the country’s six geopolitical
zones and the thematic areas outlined above, as well as
initiatives that could be tweaked to support adolescent girls.
- Provide an overview of the different investment models to
consider including corporate social responsibility (CSR),
sustainability, inclusive business (i.e. low income consumers),
and private sector development (i.e. investing in
entrepreneurship) and provide possible entry points for GHN to
collaborate.
- Provide detail on the objectives and target beneficiaries,
activities being delivered and their geographic reach, any
other partners/donors involved in the funding or implementation
of the initiative, and total scope of financial commitment
(categorized according to cash and in-kind contributions).
- Identify entry points and potential for Girl Hub to partner
and influence these initiatives.
- Provide key contact details for the companies identified as
prospects.
- Consultant(s)/Consulting firm Deliverables:
- Submit an inception report within one week of
commissioning, that reflects understanding of Girl Hub’s unique
intervention approach and strategy, a comprehensive methodology
for the assignment and detailed workplan with timelines.
- Develop data collection tools / frameworks.
- Conduct all desk research and interviews with private
sector actors as required to meet information gathering
objectives.
- Draft a mapping report that serve as a reliable reference
tool for GHN in identifying which of these private sector
initiatives there would be value in, and opportunity to,
partner with and influence, and potentially secure funding from
for Girl Hub’s activities.
- Submit a draft report of findings and recommendations for
review by Girl Hub. The draft report will be commented on and
returned to you within one week of submission.
- Produce a revised final report latest one week after the
receipt of the draft report comments.
Desired Qualifications
- Degree in Business, International Development, or related
field.
- At least 10 years’; experience in working with the private
sector on development issues
- Demonstrable experience with similar mapping exercises
- Very good knowledge of private sector investment (CSR,
inclusive business, sustainability)
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English
required, including report development, writing and editing.
Job Title: GHN Monitoring, Learning and
Results Consultant
Job Location: Abuja
Duties and Responsibilities
The Monitoring, Learning and Results Consultant will be
required to provide short-term support, on a full-time basis,
for a number of different monitoring and research projects
currently underway and in development.
The consultant will be expected to play a key role in guiding
GHN staff and other relevant stakeholders across design,
training, quality assurance and project management aspects of
the work.
Key Deliverables Include:
- Act as M&E lead for the mid-year review of a programme
of work being delivered with INGO partners.
- Responsibilities to include commissioning and managing
fieldwork agency, overseeing effective design of sampling,
qualitative methods and tools, training fieldwork agency,
quality assuring fieldwork through field visits, reviewing
development of analysis and reporting frameworks, and quality
assuring reporting.
- Act as M&E lead on a curriculum review for a
partner-led Safe Spaces programme.
- Supervise and monitor a local research agency in the
delivery of training and fieldwork support/supervision for
girls utilising mobile technology for a participatory peer
research project.
- This will include contributing to training workshops,
feeding into design of research study, conducting field visits
to quality assure and ensure girl safeguarding standards are
being met.
- Manage up to three individual consultants delivering
research studies that will feed into Girl Hub strategy and
planning between March and May 2015, ensuring that research
frameworks and reporting are co-ordinated and complimentary
across studies.
- The MLR consultant will facilitate quality assurance review
and revision of reports to bring to completion.
- Manage monitoring and reporting for in-house training and
development activities
- Support information gathering and facilitation of any
required country visits from external consultants working on
Girl Hub Nigeria research and evaluation activities.
- Provide technical research support to the Girl Hub Nigeria
Insights team, and support the implementation of any additional
monitoring, evaluation and learning processes and systems as
required
- Ensure all monitoring, evaluation and research activities
are conducted in line with agreed ethical principles, and
consistently promote downwards accountability to beneficiaries.
- Ensure all monitoring, evaluation and research activities
are conducted in line with Girl Hub’s girl safeguarding policy.
- Work with required GHN London staff on a regular basis and
promote programme and organisational knowledge management and
learning
- Participate and contribute in Team meetings, off-sites and
the Country Strategy Planning process as required.
Reporting:
- The MLR Consultant will report directly to the GHN Country
Director.
- The consultant will also take technical direction, where
required, from the Girl Hub London MLR team and will join
fortnightly global MLR calls to report on GHN MLR activities
and progress.
- At the end of the assignment, the Consultant will prepare a
report documenting progress and achievements against the
above-cited outputs/results.
- The report will also provide comprehensive handover notes
for any ongoing MLR work.
- This report will be in addition to any project-related
reporting required as part of completion of the deliverables
outlined above.
Required Skills and Experience
The incumbent is expected to possess the following
qualifications:
- Post-graduate degree in the Social Sciences, International
Development or other related field.
- Seven to ten years work experience, including consulting in
M&E areas directly related to GHN’s objectives.
- Experience coordinating research programmes and managing
fieldwork teams;
- Experience with participatory approaches;
- Experience with qualitative research methods and data
analysis;
- Ability to provide guidance to consultants in the delivery
of research and field work
- Strong communication and organizational skills, and the
ability to act as a ‘super translator’ working with people from
different professional disciplines in the private and public
sectors;
- Proficiency in English with excellent oral and written
communications skills.
- Experience quality assuring research in the field and
willingness to undertake field visits to locations in Lagos,
Abuja, Kano and Kaduna (security conditions permitting).
- Fully proficient in the following software applications:
Word, Excel, and Power point.
- Passionate commitment to realizing the potential of girls.
How To Apply:
Interested and qualified candidates should send their
applications
to: info@girlhub.org with
the subject “Education Policy Consultant”
Application Process
The application should include:
Curriculum vitae of the consultant(s) who will undertake this
assignment, the CV should include relevant experience, names
and addresses of organizations where similar work has been
carried out.
A budget for the assignment.
A concept note detailing how the study will be undertaken.
A detailed activity based timetable for the work.
Deadline: 17th March, 2015