Civil Society/Advocacy Specialist - USAID/Nigeria SCALE Final Performance Evaluation at Navanti

Responsibilities:

The civil society and advocacy specialist must demonstrate good knowledge of CTIP, SGBV, and CEFM issues and social inclusiveness. The sector specialist should also have adequate knowledge of interacting, engaging, and assessing civil society organizational performance and the way the national and state assemblies work given the focus of SCALE on policy reform advocacy.

The civil society/advocacy specialist will:

• Participate in the evaluation kick-off session with USAID/Nigeria.
• Conduct desk review of the activity and support CTIP, SGBV, and CEFM contextual issues and social inclusiveness understanding of the evaluation.
• Work with the evaluation specialist and other team members to design the data collection instruments and ensure they address all evaluation objectives.
• Lead political economy and stakeholder analysis with particular attention to CTIP, SGBV, and CEFM
• Coordinate with the team leader and other team members to conduct interviews.
• Interpret and analyze qualitative and quantitative data.
• Support in preparing reports of research findings.
• Work with the team leader and other team members in planning, developing, coordinating, and administering research tools.
• Perform quality assurance reviews of both quantitative and qualitative data.
• Support the team leader and other team members in writing or editing technical reports and summaries of findings.
• Work with the team leader and other team members to perform desk review and identify additional information required for analysis.
• Work with the Team Leader and other team members in preparation and presentation of the In-brief and Out-brief to USAID/Nigeria and other stakeholders as requested.
• Support the team leader and other team members to develop the draft Evaluation report with support from the team members, taking into consideration feedback from the Out-brief presentation.
• Work with the team leader and other team members to respond to USAID comments on the draft report, incorporate USAID/Nigeria staff comments into the final version of the report and finalize the report.
• Work collaboratively with team members throughout design, implementation, analysis, and report writing to complement each other's areas of expertise.

Qualifications:

The candidate is expected to have the following qualifications:

• Advanced degree in international relations, government, development studies, business, law, or other relevant international development field.
• A minimum of seven years of experience in civil society development, civic engagement, CTIP, SGBV, and/or CFEM, network and coalition building, and capacity building of civil society organizations.
• Experience building the capacity of local organizations and knowledge of capacity development methodologies
• Strong analytic understanding of the political economy of Nigeria at local and national levels.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of relevant CSO networks and organizations in Nigeria.
• Proven ability to collaborate and form alliances both within civil society and between civil society and the private sector, professional associations, religious communities, and government at local and national levels.
• Experience in supporting CSOs, including those that represent marginalized communities, including capacity building and understanding the characteristics of CSOs, and the challenges they face in having their voices heard.
• Experience with USAID-funded programs preferred.
• Ability to respond to flexibly changing situations and diverse stakeholders.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English are required.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, tasks efficiently.
• Willingness and ability to travel to field locations.
• Excellent time management skills and resourcefulness with strong attention to detail.
• Experience in the Nigerian local context is required.