Jobs in an International Development Organization - NERI Nigeria (10 positions)

Position Summary:
The Program Development Manager for Governance (PDM-G) will lead flexible, innovative, and rapid programming activities throughout Borno State. The primary function of this position will be to identify, articulate and propose new areas of work. The PDM-G will focus primarily on developing activity ideas that support the Government of Borno State and are coordinated with state government liaisons.

The PDM-G will ensure that all processes comply with governing community development regulations, task order specifications and procedures. The position will be based in Abuja with extensive travel to Borno. The PDM-G will provide management on the evolution of the Borno State political, legal and economic situation and on how to continuously adapt the program to ensure that it remains relevant, effective and immediately takes advantage of programming opportunities as they arise.

Reporting & Supervision:
The Program Development Manager reports to the Country’s Program Director and will provide technical leadership and oversight to the Borno State Program Manager and Community Development Facilitators, who will assist in activity development, activity implementation oversight and reporting.

Primary Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Develop the overall program development strategy for Borno State through constant news monitoring, contact with Borno State government partners, contacting partners, donors, and regional staff;
• Develop and maintain productive working relationship(s) with Borno State government liaisons. Communicate regularly through phone calls/email/skype and face to face meetings;
• Manage grant activities and short term technical assistance grants in support of developing a coherent media strategy.
• Recruit, train and manage the Borno State Program Manager and Community Development Facilitators (CDFs)
•  Manage processes and pipeline of Borno State activity development and maintain overall responsibility for proposal submission, data entry, development of proposal content and finalization of budgets to ensure continually high standard of objectives, focus, accuracy, efficiency and feasibility of grants to be approved. Activities will focus on supporting the Borno State government and media;
• Oversee the programmatic implementation and monitoring of each activity in coordination with providers, through Community Development Facilitators and in coordination with the program’s Grant & Procurement Manager. Also ensure the non-partisan implementation of each activity and the achievement of outputs as stated in the activity agreement using secondary sources of information;
•  Input to grant and procurement award processes to ensure that activity deliverables are achieved, including drafting scopes of work for service providers and implementing partners, evaluating and approving technical deliverables and setting deadlines to ensure on-time delivery of project outputs;
•  Gather lessons learned from the M&E teams and periodically incorporate these into a revised Borno State program strategy, and regional teams’ provincial work plans, resulting in overall improved project design;
• Ensure that activity implementation is in accordance with International Development rules and regulations and management policies and procedures;
•  Identify, review and manage lessons learned and best practices for program activities through thorough completion of Final Evaluation Reports to conclude project activities;
• Coordinate with Reporting and Communications team to provide inputs to weekly reports and success story products to donor;
• Respond to requests from the client as needed;
• Initiate and manage after-action reviews in coordination with Investigation and Compliance team as needed for activities after close-out.

Qualifications:

• University degree in political science, development or other related social sciences field is required; Master’s desired;
• Minimum of five (5) years professional experience (including at least two years of supervisory experience) working in complex and challenging field operational contexts;
• Prior experience with international development organizations, particularly with transition programming, and/or programs that have community-level engagement is required;
• Familiarity with policies and procedures in regards to financial management, financial reporting, procurement processes, systems and grants management at international organizations is required;
• Previous experience working in Borno State is mandatory;
• Willingness to travel to Borno State up to 50% of the time;
• Strong analytical, organizational and communications capacity;
• Fluency in oral and written communication skills in both English and Hausa; and
• Fluency in Kanuri is desired.