Output Manager: Security and Governance at International Alert

You will be responsible for providing NSRP with strategic and technical management that will deliver programme results, specifically in relation to Security and Governance Output (Output 1). You will lead the conceptualisation and implementation of NSRP activity under Output 1, and provide technical guidance to ensure the implementation, monitoring, and reporting of all Output 1 activities at Federal, State and Local levels. You will also develop and manage relationships with a wide constituency of actors and stakeholders, with particular relevance to the work conducted under Output 1, and contribute to overall NSRP strategy-setting and monitoring at a senior level, and to the overall capacity development (skills and knowledge) of the NSRP delivery team.

Essential qualifications include a post graduate qualification in International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies or a related social science discipline, with significant experience of managing peacebuilding projects or programmes, project planning and monitoring – including responsibility for financial management of projects. An understanding of conflict and peacebuilding issues in Nigeria, coupled with experience of working in partnerships with other organisations on peacebuilding, and in providing mentoring and support to a range of actors are also required.

The post is only open to those with the right to work in Nigeria.

Note: The above are some of the requirements for the job. For the full job requirements and an application pack (the person specification section of which will form the basis of short-listing), please visit http://www.international-alert.org/jobs. In your application, please indicate the full job title of the role you are applying for.