Applied Political Economy Analysis Consultant at Pact West Africa (Nigeria)

Pact works across multiple sectors and actors to combat corruption, promote democracy and improve health. Our funding partners run the gamut from the U.S. Government to private foundations to corporations, and our on-the-ground partners include Nigerian ministries and civil society organizations focused on advocacy, democracy and health.

Since 2005, Pact has helped forge partnerships between government and civil society, resulting in the passage of four significant national bills to fight corruption, including 2011’s landmark Freedom of Information Act. In 2012, we worked with 96 local Nigerian partners, equipping them to improve internal processes and broaden their support.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Applied Political Economy Analysis Consultant

Location: Abuja, with travel to the North-Eastern States of Nigeria as required

Job Summary

• The consultant will use APEA methodology to analyze the emergency response Ecosystem in North East (NE) Nigeria with a focus on the health sector
• Consultant will seek to better understand the impact of the NE Nigeria security and humanitarian crisis on the health system as well as the factors and incentives that affect social accountability within the health sector in Borno State
• The APEA will be aimed at informing future project design and implementation in the state and North East Nigeria at large.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Construction of the Tool/Preparatory Activities using the Four (4) Steps of Comprehensive APEA:
  • Analysis of explicit incentives
  • Analysis of implicit incentives
  • Action and advocacy planning
  • Mainstreaming iterative APEA into project management
• Develop a methodology and supporting tools for systematically mapping and understand the formal and informal incentive structures that shape relevant health outcomes, including related to accountability.
• Complete a comprehensive literature or document review to develop a complete picture of the Borno State health system.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews to fully understand explicit political and economic structures.
• Interviews with key stakeholders to understand the complex web of implicit interests, values and norms that serve to influence the decisions and actions of key stakeholders.
• Develop implicit incentive structure analysis of health system. This may include stakeholder interviews, focus group discussions, stakeholder mapping and various other participatory research methods.
• Conduct a stakeholder dissemination workshop(s) aimed at sharing key learning from the process.
• Develop list of action items and advocacy plans aimed at bringing about desired change. Importantly, any action and advocacy planning process should develop clear roles and responsibilities.

Deliverables:

• Comprehensive literature or document review.
• List of stakeholders interviewed with contact information
• Report from interview and analysis of stakeholders
• Cleaned field notes from stakeholder interviews
• Report from dissemination workshop with list of action items and next steps
• Final APEA document
• Final report of consultancy

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience (e.g. Social Sciences, International Development, Business, Development Studies) or 7 years of relevant professional experience and a Master's Degree.
• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in international development, with field experience and health background is a plus
• Strong social science research skills
• Strong understanding of IP context in the North-Eastern State of Borno/Nigeria region
• Strong understanding of political, economic and legislative context of the North-Eastern States/Nigeria
• Exceptional diplomacy, Good written and oral communication skills in English and or Hausa/Kanuri
• Availability and willingness to travel to the north- eastern region of Nigeria for primary data collection
• Excellent ability to communicate, establish and maintain high level relations with government, private sector and development sector players, including donors

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience conducting political economy research or similar political analysis
• Demonstrated experience working with IPOs in the North - East region of Nigeria
• Advanced Knowledge of the Development Sector in Nigeria is an advantage

Application Closing Date
5th March, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV and Cover Letter on their suitability to: pactngprocurement@pactworld.org indicating the position applied for on the SUBJECT of the mail (i.e Applied Political Economy Analysis Consultant). All applications MUST be submitted as a single file in either word format or PDF. 

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Note: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.