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Mercy
Corps – Is an international development organization that helps
people around the world survive and thrive during crisis and
natural disaster. Mercy Corps works in more than 40 countries to
alleviate suffering and poverty by helping people build secure,
productive and just communities. Since 1979, mercy Corps has been
helping people in the world’s toughest places to turn crises into
opportunities to thrive.
Mercy Corps has been present in Nigeria since 2012, focusing
its interventions on women’s empowerment, economic development
and conflict mitigation. With the insurgency spilling over from
the north east of Nigeria and causing displacement of thousands
of individuals, Mercy Corps interventions in Nigeria are
implemented in a conflict and gender sensitive manner.
We are looking for motivated individuals to fill the position
below:
Job Title: Program
Coordinator
Location: Kano, Nigeria (80% with an estimated
20% travel to Abuja)
Program/Department Summary
- The ENGINE Program coordinator will provide technical
assistance for the implementation of a proposed 3-year project
to reduce financial and education barriers for marginalized
Nigerian adolescent girls and young women.
- The goals of the ENGINE program are to increase girls’ and
young women’s access to (1) financial education and life
skills; (2) peer-to-peer networks and mentors; and (3) direct
assets (materials and savings).
- ENGINE will integrate young women into value chains as well
as conduct other market-driven employment opportunities.
- ENGINE will also work with girls in formal and informal
education to increase their learning opportunities and outcomes
to prepare them for future economic activities.
- ENGINE will be implemented in FCT/Abuja, Lagos, Kano, and
Kaduna States.
- Mercy Corps will serve as a sub-awardee to a large
international company and will collaborate with other
stakeholders for the implementation of the ENGINE program,
including the Nigerian Ministry of Education and Central Bank,
as well as private sector actors.
General Position Summary
The Program coordinator will support the implementation of
activities that transition girls in school or in informal
education into economic activities. This position will ensure
ENGINE implementation is responsive to marginalized Nigerian
girls, their communities, state and non-state secondary schools,
vocational school, and other skill-based centers.
Essential Job Functions
Program Support:
- Support technical aspects of school to work programming for
ENGINE including developing incentives for girls to enter into
skills building, coordinating links to female mentors, identify
existing peer to peer networks and identify opportunities for
additional networks within schools, link girls with Islamic
and/or community-based education, increasing economic assets
through savings clubs and links to financial institutions.
- Advocate for the inclusion of marginalized girls and for
girls to be active in non-traditional sectors at the household
and community level and within Nigerian vocational and
skills-based education.
- In collaboration with M&E staff, implement relevant
surveys, need assessments, data and information collection for
on-going monitoring.
- Identify financial education and life skills materials and
courses designed by the Ministry of Education, other donor
interventions, national and local NGOs and vocational/skills
centers.
- Manage sub-grantee activities including budget,
implementation and reporting
- Coordinate closely with other ENGINE personnel to ensure
all objectives of the proposal and activities are met.
- Ensure implementation of activities is on time, target and
budget.
- Coordinate links with existing and planned donor
interventions that target adolescent girls to identify girls on
an on-going basis to participate in ENGINE activities.
- Identify Nigerian partners – NGOs as well as vocational
training/skills centers – to participate in ENGINE activities.
Representation:
- Communicate effectively to ensure overall project targets
and donor obligations are met.
- Participate in education coordination meetings as requested
by the ENGINE Project Manager.
Supervisory Responsibility:
Program Officer
Accountability
Reports Directly To: Deputy Project Manager, ENGINE
Works Directly With: Other ENGINE technical and program staff and
Mercy Corps implementation partners.
Knowledge and Experience
- BA/S or equivalent in education, management, social
sciences, international development or other relevant field. MA
preferred.
- Experience with private-sector led initiatives and DfID
strongly preferred.
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English
required, including report development, writing and editing.
- Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow
procedures, meet deadlines and work independently and
cooperatively with team members.
- Experience working with country-level ministries and
government officials, Ministry of Education experience
preferred.
- Experience managing sub-grantees
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in education, gender-
focused, skills building program.
- Experience managing large-scale secondary education or
school to work and especially targeting marginalized girls or
young women programs required. Prefer expertise in at least one
of the following areas: accelerated learning programs, Islamic
and/or community-based education targeting community acceptance
of girl’s education, increasing economic assets through savings
clubs and links to financial institutions. Experience using SMS
for training or messaging preferred.
- Experience working in a multi-organizational team
(international and national partners) is a plus.
Success Factors:
- The successful Program coordinator will combine exceptional
management skills and technical skills with a focus on
innovative interventions to engage adolescent girls in informal
education and skills building linked with private sector
entrepreneurship and employment opportunities in a culturally
and religiously conservative environment.
- S/he will have an outstanding ability to support innovative
and complex programs within the current and future program
structure of Mercy Corps in the region.
- Multi-tasking, prioritizing, problem solving and
simultaneous attention to detail and strategic vision are
essential.
Living Conditions/Environmental Conditions:
- The position will be based in Kano and will support
activities in Kano, Kaduna, and Lagos and FCT.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV’s to:
recruitment.nigeria@ng.mercycorps.org with the
position applied for as the subject of the email.
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Note: Shortlisting will start as soon as we
start receiving applications and deadline might be changed
without prior notice. Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
Application Deadline 10th March, 2015