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Voices for Change (V4C) is a UK Aid funded, four year programme
running from October 2013 to December 2017. The goal of V4C is to
help transform social attitudes towards girls and women in
Nigeria by working on specific individual, social and
institutional changes.
V4C will do this by operating at
Federal level and in four States (Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, Enugu).
V4C’s Vision is to be known and recognised for creating new ways
to change behaviour, contributing to a Nigeria where every girl,
boy, woman and man achieves their full potential. V4C’s Mission
is to inspire a generation of new voices to speak up and speak
out to empower young women to achieve their real potential. V4C
will achieve this by:
- Creating space and opportunities for girls to grow.
- Getting the support of boys and men.
- Removing formal and informal barriers, or
- Influencing behaviours and laws / behavioural and legal
change in Nigeria.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Adolescent Girls and Women Lead
Location: Abuja
The Position
The purpose of the AGW Life Skills Lead role is to lead the
implementation of Output 1 – ‘Virtual and Physical Safe
Spaces’, networking and campaigning to:
- Promote change in negative attitudes and perceptions of
Nigerians about gender equality and women empowerment.
- Improve self-esteem in young girls and women in
post-secondary and tertiary institutions.
- Be responsible for delivery of agreed milestones.
The AGW Life Skills Lead will:
- Provide technical leadership in the implementation of
Output 1 physical and virtual purple spaces:
- Developing and delivering on a strong strategy to deliver
the three components of Output 1 – physical Safe Spaces and
virtual purple Spaces
- Sharing learning from the Safe Spaces and other Output 1
work with other Output leads
- Drawing on the wider team, including consultants, to
strengthen planning, delivery and monitoring of the purple
spaces Output
- Responsible for developing and reporting against monitoring
and measurement tools for all components of safe spaces.
- Ensuring strategies encompass diversity of ethnicity,
religion, age and marital status.
- Maintaining clear workplans and meeting agreed logframe
targets
- Analysing differing target audience needs and ensuring
these are fed back into programming strategies across the
outputs.
More Specifically
Physical:
- Managing and coordinating the V4C physical Safe Space
initiative in participating states.
- Ensuring peer educators / NGO facilitators/partners
strengthen quality physical safe spaces appropriate to target
audience
- Maintaining strong partner relationships and quality
delivery
- Leading on design and review of toolkits to support
physical spaces, ensuring on time and relevant to target
audience
- Ensuring the development of innovative interventions to
support partners in their work with Brand Ambassadors.
Virtual:
- Ensuring content is developed on time, engaging and
relevant to the target audience within virtual purple space.
- Ensure linkages with output 3 campaign initiatives through
virtual platforms.
- Ensuring on-going virtual platform safety.
- Feeding into discussions to generate new topics that will
keep the ‘lifestyle’ brand and content fresh and relevant,
drawing from conversations within virtual and physical
discussions
- Supporting the creation and cultivation of online
audiences.
- Responsible for ensuring promotion of AGW and ABM
engagement in the virtual purple spaces which drives traffic
from web and physical spaces and NGO partner initiatives, in
collaboration with output 2
Support the development and delivery of strategies to
support AGW to actively participate in nationwide campaigns and
links to networks.
- Developing and delivering on a strong strategy to deliver
component 2 – AGW networking and campaigning
- component
- Ensure close linkages with output 2 and 3 in developing
campaign messages and strategies, and in line with messaging
strategy and guidance
- Identifying innovative and relevant ways to communicate
issues in ways that resonate with target audience
- Developing annual workplan within agreed budget
- Responsible for developing and reporting against monitoring
and measurement tools for the
Supervise State Coordinators to achieve programme
objectives, including:
- Providing technical knowledge and skills to support
web-based and face to face interventions.
- Demonstrating value for money by reviewing weekly work
plans.
- Actively analysing and managing risk.
- Overseeing coordination of workload demands from output
leads.
- Overseeing support by State Coordinators to sub-recipients
to pilot virtual and physical strategies, knowledge management
and sharing.
- Monitoring achievement of priority activities.
- Identifying areas for follow up support.
Collaborate with other Output Leads, DFID programmes,
national partners, international partners and other safe space
organisations.
- Develop and monitor budget and expenditure
- Developing annual costed workplans
- Reviewing and reporting against monthly expenditure
ensuring within 5% variance
- Providing V4M evidence on quarterly basis
Plan for and supervise consultants as required, working in
close partnership with ‘critical friend’ (CF)
- Responsible for ensuring consultants are working within
contractual terms as laid out in ToR
- Ensure TA tracker is up to date and accurate TA projections
shared on monthly basis
- Specific to CF – Actively drawing on technical support,
developing annual ToRs, agreeing quarterly deliverables and
days, together with bi weekly check in
- Responsible for keeping CF and long term consultants up to
date with V4C strategic thinking, planning and reviews across
the programme.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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online
Application Deadline 24th April,
2015