Adolescent Girls and Women Lead at Voices for Change Nigeria (V4C)

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
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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
• 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

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
• Developing annual workplan within agreed budget
• Responsible for developing and reporting against monitoring and measurement tools for the 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

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.
• Monitoring achievement of priority activities.
• Identifying areas for follow up support.
• 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.

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.

Application Closing Date
24th April, 2015

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online