Head of Advocacy at KPMG

Overview
The role holder will be responsible for:

• Driving the advocacy and policy initiatives and providing technical support by developing and implementing relevant policies to deepen financial inclusion in Nigeria
• Driving the Financial Literacy initiatives for all demographics in order to increase the Financial Inclusion rate in Nigeria

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments of current policies and regulations in the Financial Services sector in Nigeria to identify regulatory gaps and opportunities for advocacy to promote implementation of financial inclusion objectives in Nigeria
• Understand the various processes required for drafting and implementing social and economic policies and regulations
• Provide technical support to regulators in policy and regulation design that promotes financial inclusion based on compelling evidence-based insights from the Organization’s research data
• Ensure the Organization’s research findings are used to inform policy reforms and/or stimulate product innovation by consistently disseminating targeted research information to stakeholders
• Engage in advocacy activities with required stakeholders to solve industry problems identified during the Organization’s working group/breakfast meetings
• Work closely with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Financial Inclusion Secretariat (FIS), National Pension Commission (PENCOM), National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) National Deposit Insurance Commission (NDIC) and other stakeholders to support monitoring and delivery of relevant objectives in the National Financial Inclusion Strategy
• Understand the global trends or strategies that have been proven successful and leverage same to deepen financial inclusion in Nigeria
• Forge and maintain effective  partnerships with key regulators in order to ensure that they develop enabling environment to drive financial inclusion agenda in Nigeria
• Engages in conferences, convenings, working groups, speaking engagements and other activities that reinforce the organization’s role as a honest broker and thought leader in Financial Inclusion as directed by the Chief Executive Officer
• Contribute to the development of the financial inclusion sector and the organization’s position as a thought leader by writing position papers/ focus/strategy notes, for advancing financial inclusion in Nigeria

Other Duties:

• As required, contribute to the Organization’s knowledge management by facilitating knowledge sharing sessions, creating training materials and ensuring these materials are consistently saved to SharePoint for ease of reference and retrieval of information
• Lead, coach, and mentor the Advocacy Specialist, Financial Literacy Specialist & Associate to ensure customer focus and high standards of delivery
• Ensure that the Advocacy team keeps abreast of new local and global trends and developments in policies/regulations within the financial sector or other related sectors
• Ensure that any output from the Advocacy team meets the organization’s high standards of delivery
• Work with the Human Resources to develop annual training plans for the Advocacy team for approval by the Chief Executive Officer
• Monitor, manage and report on the performance of the Advocacy Specialist, Financial Literacy Specialist & Associate, including setting performance objectives and timelines, and conducting performance reviews and annual performance appraisal

Required Skills and Competencies

• Good  knowledge and understanding of public (social and economic) policies
• Good understanding of the policy processes from drafting  through till implementation
• Excellent Communications skills
• Ability to forge partnerships across stakeholder groups  and good stakeholder management
• Ability to influence  various stakeholders at an high level
• Good interface with financial services regulators
• Good knowledge  of  qualitative and quantitative research process
• Ability to use evidence/ data to underpin regulations/policies
• Proven project management skills
• Formulating strategies/concepts analysing
• Campaign Management skill

Basic Qualification and Experience:

• Master’s degree in Economics, Statistics or International Development
• Strong awareness of the legal, regulatory & policy frameworks that govern Financial sector experience (banking/management consultancy/development/research
• Prior experience in policy and regulation design and implementation
• Experience in using research/evidence to underpin decision making