NERI Nigeria Current Recruitment: Gender and Capacity Building Specialist (GCBS) for Yobe and Borno states. As a matter of fact, this’s one of international NGO jobs in Nigeria 2018. NERI Nigeria Current Recruitment: Gender and Capacity Building Specialist (GCBS) recruitment exercise is ongoing.
NERI Nigeria Current Recruitment: Gender and Capacity Building Specialist (GCBS)
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The North East Regional Initiative (NERI) Nigeria – An International Development Organization seeking applications from suitably qualified candidates to fill followoing position below:
Job Title: Gender and Capacity Building Specialist (GCBS)
Location: Borno and Yobe State (expected prolonged travel to northern Borno and Yobe)
Contract Term: Consultant
Duration: Six (6) months
Slot: 2 Openings
Program Summary
This program seeks to design and implement activities that will collectively empower women and girls through Capacity & Coalition building in targeted communities. Therefore, efforts include identifying community related activities & developing curriculum activities that will address issues around women and girls’ vulnerability. Furthermore, establish various platforms/ groups of women within community which gives women and girls safe space to discuss and address issues on vulnerabilities as well encourage women involvement within their communities.
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NERI Nigeria Current Recruitment: Gender and Capacity Building Specialist (GCBS):Work Scope/Primary Responsibilities
- Firstly, the Gender and Capacity Building Specialist (GCBS) is responsible for developing and implementing,collaboration with community stakeholders, capacity-building activities to address priority issues as it relates to women and girls’ vulnerabilities within community.
- The GCBS strengthens existing platforms or establish new platforms to support implementation of activities in targeted communities in gradual, iterative and culturally-sensitive way to build capacity among women and develop local and eventually regional coalitions within Northeast Nigeria (Borno and Yobe).
Reporting & Supervision:
Further, the GCBS reports directly to NERI Program Manager and technically supervise GCDA.
Duration:
The duration for this activity initially is 6 months with possibility of extension.
Potential activity locations include, but re not limited to:
Borno: Kareto, Gubio, Damasak, Mongonu, Shuwa Communities, Maiduguri
Yobe: Geidam and Yunusari (Kanamma) LGA
NERI Nigeria Current Recruitment: Gender and Capacity Building Specialist (GCBS) – Deliverables:
- Responsible for general oversight of activities at targeted communities, as well as type of program interventions to address related issues on women and girls’ vulnerabilities
- Design capacity-building curriculum that addresses different topics on role of women in peace building, including but not limited to: management of community-based organizations, prevention of violent extremism, sexual and gender-based violence prevention and micro business skills.
- Deliver capacity and coalition building activities in program locations; the curriculum to be contextualized to local realities.
- In coordination with GCDA, establish program oversight and monitoring, ensuring community buy-in activities
- Conduct introductory and follow-up meeting with GCDA including identification of relevant sessions in the curriculum where women perspectives re to be integrated, as well as understand specific needs and expectations
- Identify existing or previous platforms that addresses interventions that relate to women and girls, while stating challenges and successes of programs.
- Coordinate trainings, with meetings with stakeholders and submit specific activity reports to Program Manager
- Develop appropriate tools and materials to facilitate community-based meetings with support from GCDA which helds regularly in communities
- In addition, reinforce and/or establish organized groups of women within selected communities
- Facilitate Community outreaches in collaboration with GCDA
- Submit weekly report that includes findings during week. Format for report will be given to consultant.
- Submit final report at end of the consultancy
NERI Nigeria Current Recruitment: Gender and Capacity Building Specialist (GCBS) – Required Skills & Qualifications
- University degree in Psychology, Education, Sociology, political Science, Law and/or advance degree in Conflict Management, Peace Building or related field is required.
- Must have at least five (5) years work experience in managing women and gender issues
- Work experience with internationally-funded project on governance, stabilization and/or women related programing highly desirable.
- Experience in developing training curriculum and manuals.
- Furthermore, strong understanding of gender-sensitive programming principles and tools and ability to apply them effectively to meet needs for community and stakeholder’s engagement.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining stakeholder networks across local government platforms and community engagement forums.
- Experience working in North East especially Northern Borno and Yobe preferable.
- Excellent influencing and relationship management skills in community mobilization.
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
- Fluency in oral and written English required. Ability to communicate in, Kanuri, Hausa and/or Shuwa-Arabic desirable.
- Ability to travel frequently within activity locations.
NERI Nigeria Current Recruitment: Gender and Capacity Building Specialist (GCBS)
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit following documents to: nigeria_recruitment@neri-nigeria.com
Document Include:
- Current Resume or Curriculum Vitae (CV) listing all job responsibilities; AND
- Cover letter
NERI Nigeria Current Recruitment: Gender and Capacity Building Specialist (GCBS) –Note:
- Please reference the job title and location on the subject line, your cover letter and resume/CV.
- Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
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