Programming and Training Coordinator at Population Council

The Population Council is an international, non-profit, non-governmental institution that seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and help achieve a humane, equitable and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Councils major program areas are HIV&AIDS, Reproductive Health and Poverty, Gender, and Youth. The Council conducts biomedical, social science and public health research and helps build research capacities in developing countries. The Population Council works in collaboration with a broad range of Nigerian institutions. Due to its imminent roll-out of an ambitious 5-year community-based adolescent girls empowerment program in Northern Nigeria, the Council is seeking qualified individuals to fill the vacant position:

Job Title: Programming and Training Coordinator - 1 Position

Job Description

• The successful candidate will work closely with the technical staff and partners of a project to promote asset building and safe spaces for vulnerable adolescent girls in six states in Northern Nigeria by ensuring the delivery of capacity building and other inputs to improve and expand safe space programming in the focus states.
• S/he will use Population Council and other resources to bring effective approaches, curriculum, girls’ clubs and safe space management practices to the community safe spaces partners, government and institutional partners.
• The Coordinator will develop and implement an ambitious workplan of training of safe space practitioners to plait and adapt safe space approaches and resources to meet the needs of girls to build core assets - social networks, mentoring relations, mediation and negotiation skills, increased health and other social asset knowledge and access to services, and financial literacy skills.
• S/he must be able to leverage project partner, government and community resources to deliver on programme and training activities. The Coordinator must also be able to design and coordinate training of government, project, CSO/NGO partners amid support other collaborating projects working with adolescent girls in the project focus states.
• The Coordinator will undertake a number of key programme management activities key to effective project implementation, including support to partners on mapping community resources and building capacity of service providers to expand access, sensitivity and quality of services to adolescent girls referred through the project supported safe space clubs.

Qualifications: The ideal candidate must have:

• Master's degree in the social sciences, public health or other related fields with a minimum of five years of experience in managing, developing, and implementing social services or health programmes
• Demonstrated theoretical amid practical knowledge of social development, gender, and adolescent programming, women’s empowerment and rights, and/or reproductive and sexual health as demonstrated in achievements and positions in previous posts.
• At least three years of experience working with safe space, girls clubs, peer education programmes, including design of girl-centered activities and counseling.
• Certificate training and significant experience as a master or lead trainer designing and Facilitating workshops, preferably for social services, health, women/girls related programmes.
• Experience working with international donor funded projects a strong plus, including budgeting of workshops, events, training, travel, as well as narrative and financial reporting.
• Demonstrated understanding and willingness to work at community level in challenging environments to build awareness and support for girls centered services.
• Solid leadership, management, and staff development skills in order to effectively coordinate a range of activities and diverse groups of partners, beneficiaries and project team members.
• Must speak fluent Hausa and have experience living and working in northern Nigeria.
• Excellent English language, writing, public speaking, and presentation skills.
• Ability to handle a heavy workload with competing priorities and work independently with minimal supervision as part of a team

Application Closing Date
25th June, 2013

Method of Application:
Qualified candidates should follow the instructions below:

• Send an application letter (stating you current salary and salary expectations) and resume to [email protected]
• Clearly state the position title for which you are applying and your full names -starting with the surname first, then other names (e.g. Deputy Director (Research) - BEN, Shehu Ekoag) - in the subject area of the email.
• All attachments must be in PDF format.

Note

• Candidates who do not follow the above instructions will be automatically disqualified.
• Population Council reserves the right to cancel the recruitment process at any time. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
• The Population Council is an equal opportunity employer.