Influencing Officer at Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for - and respond to - crises and adversity. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Influencing Officer

Location: Yobe
Type of Role: Fixed Term

The Opportunity

• Plan International Nigeria, as part of its commitment to improving the lives of people in the country, especially in the communities we serve and ensuring that issues limiting the opportunity for people to live a life devoid of disaster is commencing a project on climate resilience project in Adamawa and Yobe States.
• The project designed as a four-year intervention, up scalable to 12 years, is expected to have a spiral effect in other parts of the country beyond the project implementation states. While the project will apply the Climate Resilience Measurement for Communities (CRMC) to address flood incidence in the project states, it will also focus on engagement with relevant federal government agencies on flooding and other climate-related matters. Project actions at the states will serve as models for purposeful interventions that could be expanded to the national level.
• The project will focus on making communities more resilient to floods by supporting systems strengthening and providing relevant technical reinforcement to emergency management structures that need to be strengthened at the community level linked to LGA and the state levels up to the national level, ensuring coordination and purposeful collaboration among the agencies. There will also be a high level of community engagement, mobilisation of community structures, capacity building in organising, mobilisation, self-help, advocacy and policy influencing of the community structures.
• The project is developed in line with our ambition to scale up our humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus in Nigeria by promoting strong coordination across humanitarian and development programming and influencing.
• The Climate Resilience Influencing Officer will serve as a contact point with relevant stakeholders such as government agencies, community structures, youth platforms, women and girls’ groups, BMOs, media and other interest groups.
• The Influencing Officer will have the responsibility of mobilising all of these energies to strengthen community resilience and ensure cohesion in response plans of relevant agencies of government and civil society.

About You

• We are looking for a holder of Minimum of a Degree in the Social Sciences or the Humanities. Evidence of additional training and certification in Advocacy, Campaigns and Social Norms, Marketing will be an advantage.
• He/she should possess at least 3years experience in similar role with Membership of relevant professional bodies. Knowledge of Climate Resilience Measurement for Communities (CRMC) Awareness of Nigeria's National and State Emergency Management System, Structures, Agencies and existing Early Warning Systems (EWS) will be an added advantage.

Application Closing Date
24th December, 2023.