Federal Lead - PLANE Nigeria at DAI

Job Summary

The Federal Lead will provide strategic leadership for the federal-level engagement activities and effective management of education reform support. They will work closely with all Output Leads, with a focus on Output 4 to lead on monitoring, evaluation and learning.

In addition,

• Facilitate research, design, implementation and monitoring for evidence-based policy approaches to education within federal and state governments;
• Maintaining strategic relationships with federal government counterparts and other relevant stakeholders, including state governments, civil society, other reform programmes and development partners;
• Taking overall responsibility for the operation and delivery of federal activities;
• Managing work planning and budgeting of federal activities;
• Ensuring efficient and effective use of resources while achieving the best value for money in the commissioning of activities;
• Facilitating and delivering regional governance reform activities whilst providing governance reforms are owned and delivered by the federal government under their own agenda;
• Using a rapidly learning, flexible, responsive and adaptive approach to facilitating federal governance reform;
• Facilitating possible issue-based approaches to resolving specific service delivery problems with a connection to governance as models for governance reform and improved service delivery;
• Facilitating a reform outreach, knowledge management, and knowledge market approach to supporting governance reform within Nigeria;
• Working with the central knowledge management unit and ensuring cross-learning at federal level and between national and states, through the identification of existing networks, and the development of new peer learning platforms and locally-developed tools
• Implementing work plans and budgets;
• Overseeing monitoring of implementation and overseeing result tracking for federal activities;
• Coordinating reform advisors, reform facilitators and short-term advisory support;
• Reporting to and liaising with senior management serving as the primary focal point for federal work;
• Contribute to engagement with stakeholders, as appropriate. 

Job Requirements

• A Master’s degree, preferably in education, public policy and/or economics.
• At least 10 years of experience in the development sector, preferably with FCDO funded programmes.
• Experience of working with the non-state sector in education, including low-cost private schools and public-private partnerships in education.
• Experience in managing, designing and leading education-related research studies, learning assessments and evaluations.
• Demonstrated understanding of Nigeria’s education sector.
• Extensive professional experience in Africa, particularly Nigeria.
• Experience of working with government and donor counterparts.
• Knowledge of management of change and organisation development in the public sector.
• Meeting facilitation and on-the-job training experience.
• Ability to develop well written, cohesive analyses and reports.
• Proven experience with relationship building and team building skills.
• Demonstrated experience of work in politically sensitive and volatile environments.
• Ability to develop well written, cohesive analyses and reports.
• Proven experience with relationship building and team building skills.
• Proven experience working at Federal Level in the education sector.