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Role Purpose

• The Internship positions are part of opportunities on offer at Plan International Nigeria for young graduates to earn post NYSC experience.
• These opportunities are designed as learning and value-adding liaison between interns and Plan International Nigeria. The interns are expected to take advantage of the space offered for experience gathering, self-development, while providing quality service to Plan International Nigeria.
• In line with the above, Plan International hereby calls for application from interested young people to fill the space of an Advocacy & Youth Programme Intern.
• The Intern is expected to provide quality advocacy services in support of the policy influencing initiatives and youth engagement initiatives of Plan International Nigeria and maintain close working relationship with the organisation’s Policy, Research and Influencing Manager.
• The Advocacy & Youth Programme Intern will be required to enhance and add value to Plan International’s works with the young people, especially girls, in Nigeria and support them to learn new culture in organising, mobilisation and campaigning and, enhance their skills to pick up issues of national importance to both female and male youth in the country

Accountabilities

• The Advocacy & Youth Programme Intern will work with relevant programmes staff, providing support on citizen mobilisation, capacity building exercises for youth and girls’ platforms.
• Design and provide support for youth/Girls Get Equal (GGE) Campaign training platforms and other actions designed to enhance capacities of Plan International Nigeria linked youth groups in advocacy and campaign.
• Generate and report progress made on a regular basis on GGE engagement.
• Provide support and participate in all policy advocacy and campaign initiatives
• Provide support and participate in Monitoring, documentation, dissemination and encouragement of critical debate, and mainstreaming of public policy advocacy.
• Support case study collections related to policy and campaigns works
• Support the Policy, Research and Influencing Manager in maintaining links with youth organisations and provide the necessary linkage Plan International Nigeria youth engagement with broader national and international youth engagement platforms and policy spaces
• To monitor, document, disseminate encourage critical debate around youth, especially adolescent girls issues.
• Design and coordinate political education initiatives for Plan International Nigeria linked girls platforms and other relevant youth platforms
• Liaise and work closely with other Interns at Plan International Nigeria to achieve the purpose of self-development, and at all times alert the organisation on new learnings that would enhance their own capacity and opportunities for increased self-marketability.
• Represent Plan International at appropriate country-level working groups.

Technical Expertise, Skills and Knowledge
Essential:

• Bachelor's Degree in Development Studies or any related field
• Not more than one year post NYSC experience
• Significant prior experience in advocacy on youth rights, girls rights, broader human rights and development issues.
• Good knowledge of youth mobilisation
• Knowledge of International trend in youth mobilisation, organisation and campaigns
• Good attention to detail
• Good analytical and strategic thinking skills and strong research skills
• Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people
• Patience, adaptability, flexibility, and ability to improvise and remain responsive and to communicate clearly and effectively under pressure
• Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
• Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English, with experience in managing multicultural teams
• Strong leadership skills with an ability to seek people’s views while also taking responsibility to determine the most appropriate course of action and to act decisively

Desirable:

• Evidence of volunteering experience in an NGO or charity organisation
• Ability to work in a team
• Experience in digital media use for social mobilisation.

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Contract Duration: Six (6) Months

Role Purpose

• Plan International Nigeria in the six years of its existence has expanded from a small organisation to one of the largest INGOs in Nigeria.
• The organisation has also in the period established itself as a major intervention agency, our aim is to become a leading player in Nigerian civil society platforms with recognisable presence across the federation. We also aim to establish our self as distinct from other organisations in our choice of a bolder approach to tackling issues head on.
• To achieve this, we have been making efforts at strategically bridging the gap between what we are good at and what we are known for. Achieving this also entails improving on our visibility, developing and deploying strategic communication and marketing products that prime our internal and external audience to buy into, and take ownership of our commitments to transforming power relations in favour of 10 million girls in Nigeria, and the global ambition of advancing the rights of 100 million girls. In addition to this, we also have to ensure that the system and structures are set up to facilitate sustainability of actions and regeneration of leadership of our influencing actions. To achieve this, existence of adequate staffing for roles that complement and advance our influencing is required.
• It is against the background of the above that Plan International Nigeria seeks the services of a Communications Consultant to support the organisation’s efforts at improving on its internal and external communications processes.
• The consultant will be expected to work with the communications team to improve on existing internal communication structures, maintain positive relationships with our external audience, develop integrated marketing campaigns and support teams’ public advocacy initiatives.
• The successful candidate will, in conjunction with the Communications Advisor and under the supervision of the Policy, Research and Influencing Manager modify overall approach to communications, manage and implement same. It is expected that the consultant will, working in the communications team, contribute to the development of a strategic communication plan for the organisation which identifies priority communications goals and audiences and outlines a framework for understanding and implementing organisation’s communications strategy and aligned with the organisation’s country strategy.

Dimensions of the Role

• The position is a strategic communication role, providing technical guidance on promotion of organisation's brand, activities, or products. Will, in conjunction with the rest of the communication team, work to ensure that the brand remains in the consciousness of its clients and target audience.
• The consultant will also support capacity building of staff in brand awareness, create enriched employee training materials.

Accountabilities

• Develop, implement and update, as needed, a Strategic Social Media Strategy and Action Plan.
• Support the development of external communications including, but not limited to, success stories, reports, and other materials that communicate project’s lessons and successes over the years.
• Manage the organisation's online presence by producing good content and analysing usage data.
• Monitor SEO and web traffic metrics
• Communicate with followers, respond to queries in a timely manner and monitor reviews
• Supervise production of multi-media products, including social media presence enhancing products for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok etc.
• Generate, edit, publish and share engaging content daily (e.g. original text, photos, videos and news.
• Develop messages with high levels of planning and research of audience behaviours and perceptions to enhance the achievement of the organisation's ambitions.
• Generate new ideas, concepts and techniques to make use of the social media in the organisation more effective.
• To provide a public relation function by supporting the Policy, Research and Influencing Manager in building and maintaining contacts for Plan International Nigeria within entertainment, celebrity and political circles in order to promote the work and strategic aims of the organisation.
• Assist the Communications Advisor in preparing presentations and investment content for print and electronic media.
• Do constant analysis of and profiling of the organisation’s clients and audiences for a deep understanding of their information needs and best means of meeting them.
• Coordinate Country Office level actions targeted at global and strategic moments.
• Develop marketing and promotional content for the media and the web.
• In conjunction with the Head on Human Resources and the IT Unit maintain organisation internal communications and intranet.
• Support the Plan International’s emergency response team to ensure that the country programme’s strategies and situation reports have clear advocacy objectives and strategies, and indicators for assessing the impact of Plan’s advocacy work.

Technical Expertise, Skills and Knowledge

• At least five years’ experience working as strategic communications specialist in INGO environment.
• Good oral communication/presentation skills
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, including ability to find, absorb, analyse and prioritise information from many different sources.
• Ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines, with competing priorities and minimal supervision
• Should have excellent communication skills and be able to express our Plan International’s views creatively.
• Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to work in multi-national, multi-cultural teams
• Ability to do analysis of organization communication, demographic analysis, understand modern communication styles and the ability to craft messaging for a global audience.
• Proven experience of strategy development
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Computer literate and well-versed in basic software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

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Role Purpose

• The Monitoring and Evaluation assistant to support the implementation of the Project in the context of north-eastern Nigeria.
• The purpose of this role is to provide timely, accurate information on project implementation and ensure that monitoring and evaluation are in line with specific project FAD/donor requirements.
• The role’s support is to achieve accountability, transparency and programme quality in project locations.
• The post holder is to ensure that project activities are in line with the Performance Measurement Framework and relevant Plan International MERL guidelines.

Dimensions of the Role

• Communicates with the M&E coordinator and across Plan International, with Donor and field level implementing partners.
• The post holder will support the establishment of a systematic Monitoring and Evaluation system.
• The post holder will interface and support programme team members and programme coordination.
• The role requires strong facilitation and organisational skills along with the ability to analyse and communicate complex information to all staff, partners and other stakeholders.

Accountabilities
Project Management:

In collaboration with the project Team, M&E coordinator and other relevant staff, the M&E assistant will:

• Support to ensure that M&E specific elements of local partner capacity strengthening plans are successfully implemented
• Report results of M&E activities by providing written documentation about progress toward achieving indicators/targets, as appropriate
• Provide leadership at project location level on M&E to ensure the program technical integrity to achieve program goal and corresponding objectives and targets.
• Ensure high-quality implementation, in close collaboration with the Field based team and the M&E coordinator, and consistency in protocols, information and reporting systems.
• Lead efforts at project location to monitor and evaluate project interventions, document results and provide feedback to stakeholders to guide decision-making
• Lead efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and recordkeeping.
• Utilize the training data collected to inform strategic decision-making and project planning.
• Support targeted evaluations and operations research, including design, data collection, management and analysis.
• Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures, including routine data quality audits
• Support to ensure that relevant data (5Ws, 3Ws and related MIS data) are entered into organization-wide data management system designed to capture, analyse, and disseminate project data.
• Lead in the conduct of emergency assessments, field level Market price, cash/in-kind distribution and post distribution monitoring, data collection, analysis and reporting of results.
• Provide monthly report on the progress of implementation of the project

Information and Coordination:

• Work closely with the M&E Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Education Officer in conducting all MEAL activities, including the preparation of materials, planning of training, training enumerators, data collection supervision, data cleaning and analysis.
• Leverage strong quantitative skills to design surveys, analyse data, and mentor enumerator teams
• Provide support in creation of strategic partnerships and implementation of the resource mobilization strategy.
• Provide support in ensuring facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing.
• Perform any other support functions as directed.
• Provide support in implementing a Robust Child Friendly Feedback Mechanism in line with Plan International policies and guidelines.
• Contribute to all activity implementation, including periodic monitoring of life-skill sessions, care givers sessions, ABEP monitoring and other activities related to the project.
• Implement other task within the organization, as assigned by the line manager.

Technical Expertise, Skills and Knowledge

• Bachelor's Degree in Project Management, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Information Management, Computer Science and Statistics or any other related field.
• 1 to 2 years work experience in similar position.
• Knowledge in developing an M&E system.
• Knowledge of child safe guarding.
• Familiarity with an NGO setting especially on Education in Emergencies
• Well-developed analytical and writing/presentation skills.
• Demonstrate good knowledge and skills of Information Technology, in order to support the development and maintenance of database system of the project.
• Desirable to have specialized formal training on IT systems, database, business software, and/or web-based applications and proficiency in MS Office applications.
• Team player, able to work respectfully and cooperatively with colleagues of different national and cultural backgrounds.
• Excellent organization, and record/file keeping skills to ensure information, knowledge, and data are reviewed, maintained and monitored.
• Good understanding of performance management concepts.
• Demonstrated personal commitment to peace, tolerance and development
• Experience of working in humanitarian settings, particularly North-east Nigeria
• Good knowledge of qualitative, quantitative and mix methodologies data collection systems
• Capacities to speak Hausa and Kanuri is an added advantage