Programme Officer at Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)

Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Main Tasks

• Building relationships with strategic partners for policy and programme (25%)
• Identify and build relationships with development agencies, policy, and research organisations that are critical to YMCA of Lagos in delivering its objectives and programmes
• Establish and maintain relationships with key contacts in strategic partner organisations
• Represent YMCA of Lagos at relevant networks, workshops, seminars and policy events
• Develop ideas and projects for formal collaboration with targeted development agencies, policy, and research organizations
• Identify and track emerging opportunities through the institutional funding strategy and action plan
• Recruit and manage new and old volunteers
• Contribute to design and development of project proposals
• Draft technical and financial proposals to secure funding
• Manage associate consultant contributions to proposal development

Contract Management and Reporting (15% of time):

• Manage contracts with institutional funders in cooperation with YMCA of Lagos and associated YMCA alliances
• Manage and coordinate scheduled reporting to meet institutional donor reporting requirements

Learning, Sustainability and Impact (35% of time):

• Coordinate lesson learning from monitoring and evaluation of assigned YMCA of Lagos programmes/projects portfolio and support sharing of best practice and policy insights
• Develop and manage specifically commissioned and funded monitoring and evaluation initiatives, both qualitative and quantitative
• Coordinate overall programme portfolio to ensure key performance indicators are met, and programme impact is in line with stipulated strategy

Supporting Information and Communications Needs (10% of time):

• Work closely with fundraising and communications team to share information aboutprogramme portfolio, pipeline, specific projects and programme impact
• Support sharing of information between YMCA of Lagos and associated alliances and partners

Programme Policy Development (15% of time):

• Contribute to strategic planning within the Programme team, including annual and medium term planning and monitoring
• Liaise with YMCA of Lagos’s Senior Programme Officer to ensure that members’ expertise is best used to aid the development of YMCA of Lagos research, policy and programming
• Contribute to relevant policy debates and discussions to ensure that YMCA of Lagos has increasing policy and community influence.

Person Specification (E = Essential D = Desirable)
Experience:

• Developing budgets and grant monitoring systems (E)
• Work/volunteer experience in YMCA (D)
• Institutional fundraising (D)
• Facilitation of organizational learning (D)

Qualifications

• Minimum of a First Degree in Social Science, Administration, Development or related subject (E)
• Minimum of 2 years work experience.

Knowledge / Skills:

• Good IT skills (minimum of MS office suit) and report writing (E)
• Understanding of issues related to community and international development in Africa (E)
• Knowledge of rural and social development issues in Africa (E)
• Good working knowledge of English language (E)

Personal Qualities:

• Capacity to conceptualise programme interventions (E)
• Comfortable planning and delivering multiple activities under pressure to strict deadlines and high levels of precision (E)
• Able to communicate complex issues in a concise, accessible and engaging way (E)
• Able to work as part of a team in a co-operative and supportive manner (E)

Commitment to:

• YMCA of Lagos aims and objectives (E)
• Creative and adaptable working, prepared to travel to meetings, conferences, training and undertake overseas field trips (E)

Languages:

• Fluency in spoken and written English.
• Ability to speak and understand the prevailing local language in Lagos would be desirable, but not essential