Gender and Social Inclusion Advisor, National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) at the Policy Innovation Centre (PIC)

The Policy Innovation Centre (PIC) is the first national institutionalised behavioural initiative in Africa supporting government and stakeholders to make behaviourally informed decisions and generate evidence for impact driven interventions in critical thematic areas (Governance, Health, Gender & Social Inclusion, Education, Digital & Financial Inclusion). The PIC is positioned to support the delivery of better policies and innovative solutions for high impact interventions across Africa. The PIC is an initiative of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), a leading think tank in Africa redefining evidence based policy advocacy.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Gender and Social Inclusion Advisor, National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP)

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Contract

Job Overview

The Policy Innovation Centre is looking for a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion consultant to promote and mainstream gender and inclusivity considerations throughout the partnership’s activities, approaches, and deliverables. Three main deliverables that the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) consultant will lead on is supporting the Gender and Social Context Assessment, Intersectional Gender and Inclusion Strategy, and lead on the establishment of the Inclusion Task Force.

The Social Context Assessment is an essential early exercise for the NPAP to understand the national context, to allow for thoughtful planning and actions that recognize and respond to existing inequalities in the plastics value chain. The GESI consultant will use the knowledge and data gathered from the Context Assessment to develop an Intersectional Gender and Inclusion Strategy, which outlines planned goals and actions that can be undertaken by the NPAP to reduce inequalities in the plastics value chain.

The Social Context Assessment research and delivery will be conducted by the metrics consultancy responsible for the national analysis modelling. Using these insights and data gathered, the GESI consultant will review and provide inputs on key NPAP deliverables, such as the National Action Roadmap and the Finance Roadmap, to ensure they are gender-sensitive, inclusive, and cover the full-human picture of plastics pollution, alongside the environmental issues. Gender and inclusion mainstreaming in this context requires a contextual analysis of the needs, priorities, roles and experiences of diverse women and men as well as the integration of specific actions to address any gender-based inequalities that may have emerged from this analysis.

Job Responsibilities
Support the Gender and Social Context Assessment:

• Working with the selected research firm/team and engaging in designing, selection, planning, data collection, analysis, and report drafting.
• Support the identification of key informant interviews for the qualitative insights stage. The selection should go beyond the easily identified plastics stakeholders, seeking out the voices of underrepresented, and marginalised communities, taking into account class, ethnicity, language, wealth, geographic, gender differences as well as disability. Informal economy workers should be represented.
• Support the review, and dissemination of a report on the research findings.
• Building relationships with key GESI advocates and potential influencers across sectors, especially within the government to ensure all stakeholders are included in the report creation process.
• Supporting development of a brief on the state of the current gender discussion in Nigeria in policy and in the society from literature review and interviews (for example, the State Gender Framework).
• Assess best available quantitative gender disaggregated data on plastics and discuss the gap in data where appropriate from literature review and interviews especially with plastics stakeholders and members of the Nigerian Partnership.
• Lead the community dissemination plan for applying insights from the report, including designing and hosting meetings and workshops with relevant stakeholders who can influence the system to be more equitable.
• Provide recommendations on ways to improve the multi-stakeholder action map for the NPAP to incorporate gender considerations throughout.

Develop Intersectional Gender and Inclusion Strategy:

• Develop an Intersectional Gender and Inclusion Strategy based on a template provided by the Global Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Advisor that will cover programmatic and institutional objectives for the Nigerian Partnership to meet along with concrete actions to achieve its objectives.
• The strategy will be focused on the sphere of control and influence for the local partnership’s Secretariat, based on findings from the gender and social context assessment. The strategy will align with the State Action Roadmap in order to ensure the Secretariat’s plastic pollution objectives work in tandem with the gender and social objectives.
• The strategy will prioritise actions that remedy and channel attention to more marginalised subpopulations (such as women and people living in the lowest wealth quintiles, in informal housing, or working in the informal economy) while at the same time addressing inequalities throughout the entire plastics value chain, as identified in the social context assessment.
• Together with the context assessment research firm/team, prepare a brief for the drafters of the State Action Roadmap with recommendations for integration of gender and social considerations into the main body of the roadmap for Nigeria.
• Review the draft of the Action Roadmap for its gender responsiveness and will identify further opportunities for integrating a gender and inclusion lens throughout the roadmap, including gender-responsive policy options, some gender-targeted actions, gender disaggregated data collection, and other essential recommendations for a holistic gender-responsive and inclusive approach to plastic action in the country.

Establish an Inclusion Task Force:

• Leveraging the insights from the assessment, establish the Inclusive Task Force and ensuring the meaningful operation of the task force, which include designing the structure, identifying chairs or co-chairs, convening the community, determining frequency, drafting agendas and long-term plans, and/or delegating necessary management to strong task force members who wish to contribute.
• Ensuring the task force serves to integrate gender-responsive and inclusive actions across the plastics value chain and work to make the GESI Strategy a reality, and also identify additional opportunities for the task force and will ensure GESI insights are integrated across all the Nigerian Partnership’s activities and task forces.
• Based on the needs of the local partnership, the GESI consultant may determine that a strong enabler for gender-responsive and inclusive action across the Partnership is a Social Inclusion Task Force. In this case, the GESI consultant will leverage their community building skills to identify, host, and co-create the ongoing goals of a multi-stakeholder local inclusion task force from within the Nigerian Partnership community.
• Oversee the management of the partnership community as it relates to gender equality and social inclusion, building relationships with key advocates, socializing insights and hosting trainings and workshops to translate insights into action.
• Act as the point of contact for integrating gender responsive and inclusive approaches across the local partnership including throughout the Financing Roadmap and partnership Task Forces focused on inclusivity, behaviour change, metrics, policy, innovation, and financing.
• Manage the ongoing commitments of the Nigerian Partnership Secretariat and community to the GESI Strategy, regularly assessing progress and building agreements to ensure the strategy is implemented in accordance with the objectives.
• Support NPAP Manager and work with other partnership advisors and the GPAP GESI Advisor to elevate the visibility of work of GPAP and Nigerian Partnership through periodic blog posts, presentations, capacity-buildings etc.

Qualifications / Job Requirements

• Legal ability to work in host country, Nigeria
• Strong analytical skills on situation analysis and/or gender analysis
• At least five-six years professional working experience in the development sector, with experience on gender issues. Working on other equity issues (such as disability rights, rights of workers in the informal economy, non-discrimination, etc.) is desirable.
• Hold a master’s degree in social science, public policy, or another related major.
• Demonstrated ability in engagement with the public and private sector.
• Strong academic research skills
• Excellent verbal and written English. Fluency in one or more local languages is desirable.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent facilitation skills
• Candidate must be self-motivated, detail-oriented, and an organized thinker with the ability to juggle multiple priorities, handle assignments independently, and work under tight deadlines.
• High integrity, passion for sustainable development.
• Advanced skills of Microsoft Office, Internet, and virtual meeting tools.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Professional development opportunities.
• A supportive and collaborative working environment.

Application Closing Date
22nd May, 2025.

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

Application Instruction

• Candidates should send their CV not more than 2 A4 pages (Minimum font size 10), andan accompanying cover letter of no more than 2 pages (Minimum font size 10) answering the following questions:
  • What is your motivation for wanting to join the PIC?
  • What are the top three key attributes you would bring to the PIC?

Note

• Only qualified candidates will be contacted.
• PIC may be unable to notify every applicant of the result of their application. If you have therefore not been contacted within 8 weeks of the closing date, then you should assume that your application has been unsuccessful. However, we may retain your data and contact you for future openings that match your skills and competencies.
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