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What we are looking for:  

The purpose of the Nigeria INGO Forum Director is overall responsible for facilitating, leading and quality managing the work of the INGO Forum ensuring it remains relevant to the needs of its members and is appropriate to the context. 

The INGO Forum Director will have purview of INGO engagement across NIF and engage predominantly at the high-level elevating operational concerns in strategic decision-making mechanisms and processes and also engaging in regional and global platforms to raise the profile of the NIF context. 

What you will do:

• Compliance with and adherence to NIF approved policies and procedures and to and donor policies, guidance, and procedures. 
• Proactive agenda setting; facilitating a space for INGO-INGO collaboration; enabling sharing of information and analysis for effective decision-making. 
• High level representation of INGO interests in external meetings and planning efforts nationally and globally; and strategically guide and encourage common advocacy and policy engagement.  
• Manages the Secretariat team, which includes NIF national and international staff 
• Manages office operations in Abuja and provides strategic oversight of operations 
• Provide strategic and day-to-day management of the permanent office (personnel, budget, security, etc.) 
• Provides leadership to the office by encouraging delegation, accountability and teamwork 
• Ensures the development of and compliance with procedures for the operation of NIF office 
• Be responsible for the budgeting, budget management and accountability with the support of the NIF operations team 
• Be responsive to staff, ready to support them as needed, an advocate for staff well-being 
• Able to appreciate political necessity and delicate policy issues in humanitarian access and the application of principles to programming.  

 Focus on:

• Strategic Coordination and Senior Level Representation
• Advocacy and Policy Leadership
• Information Sharing, Analysis and Best Practice  
• Human Resources   

What you will bring:

• 5+ years of experience in a conflict or post-conflict setting with an INGO in a coordination or senior management role (e.g. Country Director or similar levels). Experience of working in complex humanitarian situations is preferred. 
• Undergraduate/postgraduate qualifications in international relations, political science, development or other relevant field 
• Proven high profile management, coordination and advocacy experience in humanitarian context. 
• Demonstrated communication, leadership skills, interpersonal and negotiation skills   
• Documented skills in developing proposals, budgets and reports  
• Strong advocacy experience in conflict-affected countries   
• Demonstrated knowledge of humanitarian architecture, the UN system (HCT, ISCG, Clusters),  
• Familiarity with HDP Nexus contexts, Durable Solutions, and Localization 
• Knowledge of international humanitarian law and humanitarian reform a plus   
• Strong understanding of conflict sensitivity and protection 
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities. 
• Computer literacy  

Context/Specific skills, knowledge and experience: 

• Knowledge of the Nigeria context or previous experience working in Nigeria or West Africa 
• Experience in administration and coordination of coalition or secretariat functions a plus. 
• Strong communication, inter-personal, facilitation and diplomatic skills. 
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal, with strong writing and editing skills. 

Behavioural competencies  :

• Strategic thinking 
• Initiating action and change 
• Influencing 
• Handling insecure environments 

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Specific Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead on the Protection programme technical development and support within NRC.
• Develop in-country technical standards, guidance notes, and programming resources for protection of civilians programming.
• Assess training and development needs within the Protection from Violence teams, develop capacity building plan and implement the plan with the support of the Protection from Violence Managers or Coordinators, develop training materials based on relevant programme guidelines and SOPs and roll-out training to the Civilian Self-Protection and Individual Response Services teams.
• Develop UDOC/Site Management strategy with a focus on engagement of community representation structures and support to site managers from local organizations and/or the community. This will be done with the support of the Site Management Regional and Head Office Advisory Team and in close coordination with the Site Management Project Manager. 
• Design a capacity building strategy and adapt existing sector and NRC training packages on Site Management Support, Mobile Site Management, UDOC, Community Engagement and Coordination to the local context. The PfV Specialist will work with the Site Management Advisory Team to identify relevant training opportunities.
• Develop relevant SOPs and monitoring mechanisms to ensure high programme quality standards based on Site Management Minimum Standards and on Safe and Inclusive Programming (SIP). 
• Develop and/or maintain a protection monitoring and analysis system to identify trends, threats, risks and mitigation measures affecting communities and individuals. The focus of monitoring and analysis efforts will be to prevent and respond to violence and coercion experienced by people in the target areas.
• Develop and/or maintain a site monitoring and analysis system to identify needs, gaps, and the overall condition of the collective sites. The focus of these efforts will be to coordinate a response within NRC supported collective sites and to inform the humanitarian response in the collective sites more broadly. 
• Analyse response data to produce succinct, analytical Protection and Site Management reports, to be shared with both external and internal stakeholders, highlighting key protection / displacement trends and concerns.

Generic Professional Competencies

• A master’s degree in a relevant field (law, social sciences or related disciplines). An advanced academic qualification will be an added advantage. 
• Minimum 4 years of experience within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
• Knowledge and skills in market analysis, cash-based interventions and market-based programmes.
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal.

Context /Specific Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Experience managing a complex protection programme including implementation, programme development, fundraising and budget development. Experience in site management programme implementation is an added advantage. 
• Excellent understanding of key technical standards (IASC, protection mainstreaming, IHL, gender and humanitarian principles, donor markers on gender and disability etc.) and a demonstrated ability to integrate them into programming.
• Knowledge of the Nigeria humanitarian context.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Arabic is an advantage.
• Experience with start-up, scale-up projects and emergency contexts.
• Specific expertise in monitoring and analysis of displacement trends, collective sites, and protection risks (quantitative and qualitative data), including in the absence or regular, consistent or reliable data.