Impact Story Specialist at Pan-Atlantic University

ROLE OVERVIEW

• The Impact Story Specialist captures, crafts, and amplifies the human stories of transformation generated by NiWEMA across its full five-year scope, 750,000-participant reach, and dual delivery model. The programme's combination of online and physical delivery, individual and cluster-based participation, and sector diversity across fashion, food, agriculture, and other industries creates an exceptionally rich landscape for impact storytelling from individual entrepreneur transformation narratives to collective cluster growth stories, from digital learners to women trained in markets and community settings across Nigeria. The role holder produces compelling impact content for funders, partners, and the broader public, while maintaining rigorous ethical standards in participant documentation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and implement a systematic impact story collection framework spanning both online and physical delivery streams, individual and cluster participation models, and all target sectors ensuring a diverse and representative body of impact evidence.
• Conduct in-depth interviews and fieldwork with individual participants, cluster members, facilitators, trainers, and partners across programme geographies to gather rich, evidence-based impact narratives.
• Develop cluster transformation stories that capture collective impact, documenting how sector-based clusters in fashion, food, agriculture, and other industries have grown, accessed new markets, and strengthened as a result of NiWEMA participation.
• Write high-quality impact case studies, human interest stories, and programme profiles for funder reports, publications, website content, and advocacy materials.
• Produce multimedia impact content, short video profiles, audio testimonials, photo essays, and social media content, in collaboration with the communications function.
• Maintain an organised, consent-verified archive of participant impact stories, multimedia assets, and supporting evidence across both delivery streams.
• Collaborate with the M&E function to ensure qualitative impact stories complement and contextualise quantitative programme data across both online and physical delivery channels.
• Identify and develop stories that demonstrate the programme's gender impact, amplifying the voices and achievements of young women entrepreneurs across all sectors and geographies.
• Ensure all impact documentation and participant profiling is conducted with full informed consent and in accordance with the programme's safeguarding, data protection, and ethical storytelling standards.
• Support the Project Director in positioning NiWEMA as a thought leadership reference for women's enterprise development at scale in Nigeria.
• Any other related task on the engagement

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, Journalism, Development Studies, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• Minimum of 6 years' experience in impact documentation, communications, journalism, or storytelling within a development, NGO, or social enterprise context.
• Demonstrated experience producing impact case studies across both digital programme contexts and field-based community settings.
• Experience documenting collective or cluster-level impact, cooperative, group enterprise, or community-based transformation stories is an advantage.
• Proficiency in multimedia content production including basic video, photography, and audio recording.
• Fluency in English required. Proficiency in Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, or other Nigerian languages is a significant advantage for field documentation work.
• Deep commitment to ethical storytelling including informed consent, participant dignity, and the responsible representation of vulnerable populations.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Impact storytelling across online and field contexts
• Cluster and collective impact documentation
• Multimedia content production
• Ethical practice and participant dignity
• Cross-functional collaboration and M&E integration