Nigeria Democracy and Election Specialist - Election Portfolio Performance Evaluation at Navanti

Position Description:

• Navanti is seeking a Nigeria Democracy and Election Specialist to provide technical support for the evaluation in areas assessing electoral process strengthening and Nigerian democracy, including knowledge of the relationship between civil society and government, and strengths and challenges around democracy in Nigeria.
• Under the technical leadership of the MEL Support Activity, The Nigeria democracy and election specialist will be working alongside four evaluation team members.

Responsibilities:

The Nigeria democracy and election specialist is expected to:

• Conduct desk review of the portfolio and support Nigeria's election and democracy contextual understanding of the evaluation.
• Coordinate with the team leader and other team members to develop an evaluation work plan, identify key stakeholders, and conduct interviews.
• Work with the team leader to perform desk review and identify additional information about Nigeria's electoral processes required for analysis.
• Work with the evaluation specialist to design the data collection instruments and ensure it addresses all evaluation objectives.
• Work with the team leader in planning, developing, coordinating, and administering research tools.
• Perform quality assurance reviews of both quantitative and qualitative data.
• Interpret and analyze qualitative and quantitative data.
• Work with the team leader and other team members in preparing reports of research findings.
• Support the team leader in writing or editing technical reports and summaries of findings.
• Work with the Team Leader in preparation and presentation of the In-brief and Out-brief to USAID/Nigeria and other stakeholders as requested.
• Support the team leader 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 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:

• A minimum of 8 years of professional experience in Nigerian democracy and/or elections.
• Advanced graduate degree in a relevant field: political science measurement and evaluation, international development, or related fields.
• Contextual experience working in the Nigerian civil society or political science sector is required, work outside the Nigerian context will be an added advantage.
• Excellent ability to communicate in English, both verbally and in writing
• Previous experience as an election and/or governance specialist on election/governance evaluations, assessments, and research studies.
• Understanding of USAID evaluation experience is strongly preferred