Social Accountability Expert - National Professional Volunteer at VSO

Type of Role: Advocacy Policy and Research
Start Date: 2nd Week of August

Descrioption

• As a VSO volunteer you’ll live and work in some of the world’s poorest communities. By sharing your unique skills and experience you’ll help generate new ideas and new ways of doing things, helping the communities you work in lift themselves out of poverty
• We’re not about delivering quick fixes, but instead we focus on long-lasting, sustainable change, that will impact generations to come
• Join us as a VSO volunteer and help us work towards our vision of a world without poverty.

Role Overview

• The Social Accountability Advisor will work with program team to build up and retain capacity for social accountability programming within the VSO Nigeria
• The role will provide support to VSO’s Programme Managers in participatory approaches and transformational programme design, and methodological support in and social accountability analysis
• Additional support in other areas may be needed, such as power, stakeholder mapping, resilience and systems approaches to development.

Competencies and Behaviour
At VSO we believe progress is only possible by working together. Whether you want to join us as an employee, or as a volunteer working in your own country, overseas or online, our selection process includes an assessment based on these core competencies:

• Ability to be open minded and respectful
• Ability to be resilient and adaptive to new situations
• Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships
• Ability to seek and share knowledge

Allowance

• As a VSO volunteer, you will be sharing your skills with local communities on a full time basis
• VSO will cover your travel, vaccinations, accommodation, and medical insurance costs, along with a local living allowance which will be paid in local currency
• This allowance meets reasonable living expenses in country, but will not be enough to send money home
• You will also receive some financial support to contribute to your on-going expenses at home.

Accommodation

• VSO works with some of the poorest communities in the world which means accommodation varies and will be basic.