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  • Posted: Aug 19, 2022
    Deadline: Aug 31, 2022
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    Federal Lead - PLANE Nigeria

    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.

    Method of Application

    Qualified candidates should please send their CV and cover letter to ng_recruitment@dai.com by the of 31st August 2022 using the Job Title as subject of the email. DAI will only contact candidates that are successful at this pre-qualification stage. More information about DAI can be found on the DAI website; www.dai.com

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