Jobs at Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI)

Name of Project: USAID Youth-Powered Ecosystem to Advance Urban Adolescent Health (YPE4AH)
Reports to: Senior Technical Director
Project Duration: 5 years (May 2020 - 2024)
Contract Duration: 18 Months
Level of Effort:  Full Time

Program Overview

• USAID Youth-Powered Ecosystem to Advance Urban Adolescent Health (YPE4AH) is a five-year (May 2020 - May 2025) award funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
• It is being implemented in Lagos and Kano by DAI in partnership with select local NGOs and the government of Nigeria.
• The project is aimed at improving the health and well-being of underprivileged, out-of-school adolescents aged 15 - 19 years of age in urban slums in selected communities in Lagos and Kano States.
• The program will foster an ecosystem that centers around Youth Hubs and seek to provide safe spaces to access sexual and reproductive health and rights information and referrals.
• Similarly, the program will empower young Nigerians to think about their futures differently and access the skills and resources needed to realize their aspirations from a holistic, human capital perspective.

Job Summary

• The Program Officer reports to the Senior Technical Director (STD), and under his/her guidance, the Program Officer will be responsible for leading the implementation of the leadership component of the project, stakeholder engagement at the LGA and community level, M&E.
• Other core responsibility of the Program officer is to support the delivery of the other various project objectives related to life skills and livelihood.

Responsibilities
The Program's officer responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

 Technical Tasks:

• To provide programs support and assist in the implementation and coordination of program activities during the life of the project
• Complete and submit monthly reports using approved monitoring and evaluation templates, including success stories.
• Facilitate the implementation of the Leadership component of the project by adequately building the capacity of the youth champions from the state to mentor adolescent champions to conduct advocacy within the intervention LGA
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement at the LGA as required to aid the achievement of community level objectives.
• Mentor adolescent champions in the state on leadership and advocacy skills to promote adolescent health and capacity development needs as it affects their localities
• Work closely with the SBC team to implement the state level behaviour change component of the award
• Support community-level demand creation team to deliver the SKILLZ United and SKILLZ Club curricula as well as other awareness generation activities, at scale and in quality, to target adolescents within the implementation communities.
• Support to facilitate the routine capacity-building approach for multi-cadre providers who serve across spoke facilities in  their timely supervision.
• Support with the restocking of Hub and Spoke facilities with essential life-saving commodities as required by the Hub and Spoke health facilities.
• Support the tracking and implementation of the state's advocacy plans
• Support with the message, tools, and materials development process for the project
• Working closely with the Senior Technical Director to represent the project at state-led meetings such as the quarterly Reproductive Health and Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Technical Working Group and Project Advisory Group meetings.
• Support with establishing new engagement with both private and public sector
• Support the training and adherence of staff and field agents on USAID Family Planning compliance on a routine basis
• Participate in (or support in organizing) relevant webinars with the potential to benefit the project.

M&E Role:

• Support the MERL team in routine internal SSV to the Youth Hubs and Spoke
• Support the quarterly data review meetings between the demand generation and service delivery teams in the project state. .
• Support in preparation of quarterly reports, especially the leadership component
• Support the conduct of quarterly Internal Pause and Reflect Sessions.
• Coordinate the weekly DAI bulletin write-up for the state.
• Actively scope the Field Agents and Team members in the state to come up with high-impact success or human-interest stories on a routine basis
• Collate Support Supervisory Visit reports from other team members and submit a single report for state.
• Monitor program delivery for quality as assigned by STD, identify gaps and make recommendations for improvement.

Other job-related responsibilities:

• Be a role model for the project in the community by demonstrating best practices for leadership, livelihoods, and accessing/adhering to family planning services.
• Stand against all forms of abuse and exploitation of project participants. Report any suspicion or acts of abuse to the Chief of Party.
• Undertake periodic trainings on US Abortion and FP Requirements, and Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance and Statutory Abortion Restrictions
• Uphold Child Protection policies and Protecting Life in Global Health provision.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of HND or First Degree in Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences.
• 3 - 5 years working experience of in programming and community-level implementation,
• Experience of working with young people on sensitive topics, including family planning, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, etc.
• Experience in monitoring and, evaluating or capturing learning for projects
• Ability to communicate in local language preferred by young people.
• Good organizational and planning skills
• Ability to write concise, analytical, and accurate reports to meet agreed-on timelines
• Excellent oral and written communications skills in English
• Good negotiation and interpersonal skills, ability to relate well and build a rapport with a diverse range of people.

Language

• Fluency in the English language is required. Knowledge of the Hausa language is an advantage.

Note

• This job description summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties.
• DAI will only contact candidates that are successful at this prequalification stage.

go to method of application »

Role Objective

• The Monitoring Evaluation & Learning Manager will be responsible for setting up an Monitoring & Evaluation framework for tracking project outcomes and impact across the DAI portfolio in Nigeria.
• He/She will assess the logrframe/results framework of projects and design an integrated framework that enables DAI collect and analyze information on outcomes and emerging impact.
• This will involve working closely with the MEL advisors on DA projects which have diverse M&E systems and requirements as well as working closely with corporate unit heads to collect corporate workplan and financial performance data for analysis.
• He/she will lead on the design of a corporate MEL framework and provide regular updates to senior management including routine reporting on high level performance of the Nigeria portfolio – corporate and programmatic.
• The Manager will collaborate with and motivate the MEL project teams and short-term technical assistance relating to evaluation and learning.
• She/he will also be responsible for conducting high quality research, and technical writing deliverables.
• He/She will be part of a multidisciplinary team that produces high impact deliverables such as online resource databases, information dashboards, websites, research, case studies, discourse events, learning sessions, newsletters, and other media products that are relevant for employees, project teams, and clients.
• This role will strengthen the ability of DAI to tell the story of change and impact that demonstrates its contribution to the development priorities of Nigeria and global development.
• This is critical to our ability to win future bids and improve the programme delivery of the bids we win.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide leadership support to all MEL activities and put in place the foundation of a robust MEL team.
• Coordinate and facilitate MEL system strengthening processes and implementation of data collection, analysis, reporting and data quality improvement for strategic communication
• Gather evidence - corporate and programmatic - to demonstrate outcomes & impact from projects against DAI strategic themes
• Conceptualize and coordinate research activities and evaluations: interviews & focus groups with beneficiaries, clients and project staff
• Arrange, code and thematically analyze qualitative evidence collected
• Generate reports evidencing the impact of DAI projects across 6 main themes: governance, climate, digital acceleration, economic growth, health and financial advisory.
• Contribute to internal reporting such as monthly reports, monthly newsletters, and annual reports for dissemination to audiences within and outside the company. 
• Design and maintenance of performance dashboards, and reporting tools
• Ensure databases are efficient and effective for organization-wide knowledge management, information dissemination and use
• Contribute to proposal development by participating in incubators and designing MEL strategies
• Conduct MEL capacity development support and keep up to date with latest thinking on evaluation and impact measurement
• Undertake billable project work in proven areas of expertise
• Any other duties as specified by line manager.

Qualifications and Person Specifications

• A Master's Degree in a Science course such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or related field. An advanced certificate in M&E, or Statistics is an advantage.
• At least 6 years of experience with expertise research, project impact evaluation, and data analysis – quantitative and qualitative.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience in strategic planning and performance measurement, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and/ performance monitoring plans.
• Proven success in designing & implementing project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and must possess the ability to deliver technically rigorous documents.
• A curious, creative & collaborative mindset, attention to detail, problem-solving attitude, an ability to work under pressure, adhere to tight deadlines & deliver high-quality work.
• Professionalism, cross-cultural competence, comfortable engaging in a global firm, a proven ability to work across multiple business functions and proficient at managing stakeholders.

go to method of application »

Job Code: 7276
Locations: Remote and Bauchi, Nigeria with possible travel to core states (Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Gombe, Sokoto), and other locations (e.g., Abuja) as needed
Reports to: The Chief of Party
Period of Performance: o/a September 12 - September 30, 2022 remote o/a October 1 - December 18, 2022 in Nigeria
Level of Effort (LOE): Estimated 70 working days (plus international travel)

Background

• The purpose of the five-year (2020-2025) “State Accountability, Transparency and Effectiveness” (“State2State”) Activity is to increase the accountability, transparency, and effectiveness of governance in selected state and local governments (LGAs) in Nigeria.
• From the project main office in Bauchi, State2State is currently working in the following six core states, along with a small project component at the national/federal level: Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Gombe and Sokoto.
• State2State’s overall purpose will be achieved by supporting three mutually supportive development objectives: 
  • Strengthening public financial management systems that include public procurement, and how these systems relate to better delivery of services in three key sectors, namely basic education, primary health care, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
  • Increasing government responsiveness to citizen needs and priorities.
  • Improving government and civil society capacity to manage conflict (through work on prevention, mitigation, and reconciliation with the earlier mentioned three sectoral partners, not stand-alone assistance to the police or judiciary).
• State2State will strengthen subnational governance systems in a sustainable manner, supporting the efforts of local reformers and building on locally derived solutions including, to the extent possible, good practices and reforms that are already working well in other parts of Nigeria.

Position Objectives

• The PFM Advisor will have a primary technical leadership role along with a secondary role of activity coordination of PFM Specialists, Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) Specialist, and STTA PFM/IGR consultants, across core states.
• Instrumental to successful coordination will be the facilitation of timely and quality communication ensuring staff properly plans for and is responsive to the State2State contract.
• All PFM work must explicitly address intermediate and sub-intermediate results and specific performance indicators per the annual workplan and monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) plan.
• The PFM Advisor will travel to state offices and expansion states (TBC with USAID) to engage with stakeholders and State2State teams, working closely with state government structures through which technical assistance is closely coordinated.

Responsibilities
Working together with the state-based teams and main office technical staff, the PFM Advisor will provide technical leadership to PFM technical assistance provided to beneficiary states, and this support will include new perspectives and approaches that are aligned with good practices and cross-cutting lenses such as gender, equity, and social inclusion (GESI), and conflict management. Ongoing and prospective areas of technical assistance that will be led, managed, or overseen by the PFM Advisor include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Mentoring team members and working with project beneficiary states and partners to update or complete participatory and bottom-up initiatives in policy and planning such as State Development Plans (SDP), Medium-Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEFs) and Medium-Term Sector Strategies (MTSS).
• Supporting the development and execution of states’ annual procurement plans that promote greater transparency, reduce risk, and support efficient service delivery.
• Facilitating capacity building in PFM areas such as internal auditing and development of resources such as training manuals.
• Helping to design, develop, and implement strategies for greater internally generated revenue (IGR), and public-private partnerships.
• Working in tandem with and managing, as appropriate, technical staff and short-term technical assistance in support of PFM activities.
• PFM technical review and feedback for State Development Plans.
• PFM technical review and feedback for Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) Expansion Strategies and associated IGR ‘Blueprint’ for mapping roles/responsibilities required to improve IGR at the state level.
• Other duties of a reasonable nature as assigned by the Chief of Party.

Deliverables:

• Short technical report that assesses S2S technical assistance for PFM initiatives and recommendations for scaling-up activities.
• State Annual Procurement Plans
• Detailed PFM Unit Quarterly Workplan through December 2022 for core and expansion (TBC) states.
  • A ‘living document’ reflective of ongoing Y2 activities and proposed Y3 activities to ensure proper communication, coordination, planning and implementation among all PFM Unit staff, STTAs, et al.
• International STTA report (template to be provided by State2State project).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field such as Economics, Political Science, Social Sciences, Law, Finance/Accounting, and Development Studies. Master’s is preferred.
• Ten (10) years of experience in PFM activities, with previous experience in the successful implementation of international development activities.
• Strong leadership skills with demonstrated experience managing teams.
• Experience with USAID programs is highly preferred.
• Previous experience working in Nigeria is preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.