Grants Monitoring and Evaluation Officer - Nigeria Youths Future Funds at LEAP Africa

Type: 5-year Contract (renewable annually) years contract.
Role: Mid Level

About the Project

• The Nigeria Youth Futures Funds (NYFF) Project is aimed at strengthening and enabling youth leadership and activism in Nigeria through outcomes-driven policy engagements and inclusive resourcing that help youth shape the future long-term development plans of the country.

Core Duties and Responsibilities
Grant Management:

• Coordinate, in collaboration with the Project lead and other relevant stakeholders all activities relating to the preparation, management, research and review of all grants applications by programme beneficiaries.
• Establish processes and procedures for the negotiation and award of contracts including grant pre-awards and post-awards actions to meet relevant requirements; Ensure compliance with appropriate federal, state, and local regulations.
• Maintain accurate documentation and records of all proposals and funding activities; effectively manage a large database of beneficiaries; prepare special reports and analyses of the data gathered for this project.
• Manage all grant related communication, enquiries, queries on the grant giving and reporting process.

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Conduct proper monitoring and evaluation for the implementation of grant contracts and awards, ensuring adherence to all terms and conditions of the grant contracts.
• Create and provide monitoring and evaluation tools to sub grantees.
• Collaborate with the finance unit to prepare relevant budgets for the programme and financial reports relating to grants administration.
• Report to and work closely with the NYYF Programmes Lead and the LEAP MERL team in fulfilment of all your job tasks and deliverables.
• Prepare thematic reports and share regular weekly and monthly reports with all relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Produce several research products such as articles, opinion pieces, evaluation reports and learning materials to be distributed across appropriate channels in different formats.
• Achieve milestones and objectives of the NYFF project.
• Participate and/or assist in special projects and perform associated administrative duties.
• Engage in other tasks that may emerge as a result of the growth of the organization and as assigned by your Supervisor
• Generate insights and recommendations for communicating the impact of the NYFF project.

Requirements
The required candidate should possess the following:

• Bachelor's Degree in any field.
• Experienced in grant administration, monitoring and evaluation.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Good organizational and administrative skills, with a keen eye for detail.
• Possess very good interpersonal skills, negotiation skill, sound judgment.
• Strong presentation skills and experience in leading stakeholders meetings.
• Strong work ethics.
• Proficient in the use of MS office suite, Google suite, data entry and analysis tools.
• Performance driven and mission oriented.
• Self driven and motivated.
• Aligned with LEAP Africa and partner organizations with youth leadership, activism and social change.
• Entrepreneurial in nature and proactive.
• Looking to work in a fast paced project and organisation.
• Aligned in thought and actions with LEAP ‘s values ( RISE - Respect, Integrity, Synergy and Excellence).

Key Technical Competencies:

• Program / Project Management Skills
• Grant management
• Monitoring and Evaluation Skills
• Report writing Skills
• Communications Skills
• Stakeholder Management Skills
• Strong organisational skills
• Budget Management Skills
• Training / Facilitation Skills
• Impact Measurement Skills.

Remuneration
Competitive