Business Development and Strategy Intern at WaterAid

JOB DESCRIPTION
Position: Business Development & Strategy (BDS) Intern Reporting to: Director of Business Development Supervising: None   Key Working Relationships: Business Development & Strategy team, other Country Programme staff. Salary band: NA  Location:  Country Office, Abuja-Nigeria Duration:  One year fixed  
Introduction WaterAid Nigeria has recently completed its 2016-2021 country programme strategy which sets a 5 year building block towards delivering a more influencing led programme over a 15 year horizon. This new country strategy rather than  reflect a progression from previous country programme strategies, outlines key shifts in focus required to catalyse change and achieve maximum impact for our work in Nigeria.  
The Business Development & Strategy Directorate will drive work on WaterAid Nigeria’s strategy, planning, and reviewing the performance and impact of our programmes. The team encompasses communications & campaigns, learning & knowledge management and fundraising. WaterAid Nigeria’s ability to raise and manage funds will be pivotal to the success of the Country Programme strategy.  
The WaterAid internship is intended to be a learning and development opportunity for young professionals to gain exposure and build skills through work in an international development organization and potentially, build a crop of professionals with experience relevant to the international development or other professional sectors. 

Overall Job Function:

• The post holder will be expected to perform a wide range of duties using independent judgment and initiative to determine approaches or actions to take in non-routine situations.  In broad terms, the holders will provide administrative and operational support for monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management activities, Country Programme fundraising activities, communications and campaign planning etc.   
• S/he will be required to interpret guidelines using policies and precedents. Most importantly S/he will be able to demonstrate sufficient professional and personal maturity to be entrusted with what in many cases will be sensitive information.  

Key Responsibilities:

A key responsibility of the intern will be to provide support to the BDS department and the CP at large, in a number of capacities and activities. These will include:

• Deliver learning and knowledge management projects/initiatives including but not limited to writing reports; collation, documentation, filing and sharing  knowledge management / learning products .
• Work collaboratively with fund raising team as may be required to deliver Country programme fundraising initiatives /projects. 
• Review and update the tools and templates utilised for reporting on all aspects of WANG programmes to ensure consistency, relevance and user friendliness both to staff and partners.
• Development of quantitative and qualitative indicators for measuring WANG performance on different programme areas.
• Monitoring and evaluation initiatives.
• Directly supervise data collection from programme – supported businesses using data collection tools (sales, records etc) and make suggestions on improvement to monitoring tools and data collection systems.
• Monitoring of the sanitation marketing activities and tracking the learning outcomes for dissemination to wider stakeholders
• Work with Communications and Media colleagues with updating and maintenance of databases (stakeholder, publication, media hits); preparations for and implementation of campaigns, updating the advocacy scrapbook and putting advocacy packs together.
• Act as liaison with People & Organizational Development department in seeking /securing support as may be required for delivery of day to day BDS department activities
• Support the Director, Business Development & Strategy and members of the BDS team with other duties as may arise. 

Skills / Abilities / Personal Qualities

• Ability to maintain confidentialities and quickly build trust- Demonstrate ability to manage information with appropriate discretion and respect for sensitivity.
•  Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Willingness to learn : Demonstrating a willingness to learn new ideas using a combination of learning approaches ; 
• Self motivation and Initiative — Ability to inspire oneself to take on challenging tasks and commitment to deliver work of excellent quality.
• Written and Oral Expression — Excellent ability to communicate information and ideas in writing and speaking so others will easily understand.
• Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others; Keen sense and appreciation of priorities and deadlines
• Flexibility-Ability to adapt to difficult situations (e.g. unforeseen change in context)
• Attention to details – Ability to carry out assigned responsibilities to expected quality with minimal errors. 

Education 
Essential

• Completion of a 4 year undergraduate degree course in arts, social sciences, business or natural sciences business administration or related field from a reputable university. 
• Completion of National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) programme no more than 5 years before date of application 

Desirable
A Masters degree in any of the fields listed as essential. 

Work Experience / Specific Knowledge

Essential

• Strong conceptual and analytical skills.  
• Demonstrate a keen aptitude and appetite for learning and personal development
• Demonstrate WaterAid values
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with a variety of people.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel to the field. Computer proficiency (Office software, internet and email 

Desirable
Interest in development career in development/NGO sector