Job Openings at ActionAid (AA) Nigeria

Grade: 7
Contract: Long term
Reporting to: Director, Resource Mobilisation and Innovation
Line Management: Digital Marketing Officer & Intern - Abuja, Front Office Volunteer - Lagos

Job Purpose

• The post holder will maintain timely and effective communication with Child Sponsorship supporters in Europe and Community Sponsorship supporters, Ambassadors, and other stakeholders in Nigeria. 
• S/he will support the fundraising team to deliver on supporter care commitments as well as serve as a communication point of contact for ActionAid Nigeria Child/Community Sponsorship Initiatives and Lagos regional office.

Specific Responsibilities
Ensure Child Sponsorship communications to funding affiliates (UK, Italy) are developed and delivered on a timely basis:

• Serve as the communications point of contact for ActionAid Nigeria Child/Community Sponsorship mechanisms
• Ensure communications to UK and Italy Child Sponsors are delivered on a timely basis
• Work with UK and Italy Communications and Supporter Services teams to ensure that communication and customer care commitment on Child Sponsorship are fulfilled
• Support Local Rights Programme (LRP) partner organisations and communities to capture and document programme activities, progress report and stories of change to be communicated to sponsors and other stakeholders
• Work with printers and other vendors to ensure quality assurance in the production of sponsorship reports and other materials
• Track LRP programme activities and provide support during project visits by Child Sponsors
• Produce Annual Communication Plans for Funding Affiliates
• Develop reports in conjunction with Women’s Right team for ActionAid’s Next Steps supporters
• Upload relevant Child Sponsorship documents, stories onto the designated internal sites (i.e. Storieshub and Sharedpoint)
• Responsible for writing updates on LRP and Sponsorship activities for ActionAid Nigeria

Lead on the development and implementation of the fundraising communication strategy of AAN’s Community Sponsorship Initiative: 

• Work with ActionAid Nigeria’s Supporter Services teams to ensure that communication and customer care commitment to Community Sponsors are fulfilled
• Develop content for supporter servicing, reactivation and fundraising
• Work with the Supporter Servicing team to develop and implement an annual communications plan
• Track Community Sponsorship funded programme activities and provide relevant updates to the team and for supporter servicing
• Serve as a contact point for ActionAid Nigeria’s Celebrity Ambassadors and Social Justice Influencers
• Facilitate the planning and organisation of supporter events and any other fundraising social events within the organisation
• Encourage and support innovation in communication of Community Sponsorship Initiative
• Develop and maintain induction materials for fundraising communications
• Provide oversight on the production of fundraising publications and IEC/SBCC materials
• Promote Community Sponsorship in the media including TV, DSTV, Billboards, Radio, Prints

Support capacity building of Partners to deliver and communicate our local rights programmes:

• Support Partner organisations in the development of their annual communication plans and budgets to ensure challenges are addressed and opportunities are maximized
• Build capacity of partners to understand ActionAid communications standards in relation to Child Sponsorship/LRP
• Support with capacity building for LRP Sponsorship Officers in using and updating the sponsorship database, SK.

Perform social media and other digital functions:

• Provide adequate support to the Digital Marketing Officer in the execution of his/her duties
• Supervise the development and implementation of digital fundraising strategy and campaigns plan
• Lead on increasing visibility for community sponsorship on social media platforms including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and all other relevant Social Networks by creating engaging and promotional content for each site on a daily basis, in accordance with AA brand guidelines
• Monitor and evaluate social media engagement using analytics software, such as Google Analytics etc.
• Work in close collaboration with ActionAid Communications unit to generate and share content for social media platforms
• Responsible for content development for Community Sponsorship website and efficient running of the website. Maintain and update the Community Sponsorship website regularly

Support to AAN’s Communications Hub and Editorial Team:

• Provide occasional support to the communications hub as assigned by the Communications Coordinator
• Act as point of contact for media and communications enquiry in Lagos regional office
• Maintain effective communication with other teams in ActionAid.
• Serve as a Contributor and member of ActionAid’s Editorial team and Communications Hub.
• Serve as the focal person for ActionAid Nigeria in Lagos regional office.

Key Relationship

• Internal Relationships: Entire AAN team, AAUK, AAItaly and General Secretariat 
• External Relationships: Celebrity Ambassadors, Social Justice Influencers, Supporters, Partners. & Media

Persons Specifications
Education / Qualifications:

• First Degree in Mass Communications, Social Sciences/ Arts or Humanities (Essential)
• Membership of relevant professional Institute (Desirable)

Experience (Essential):

• At least four years post NYSC experience in communications related role
• Experience in report writing
• Experience in professional social media engagement
• Experience in producing newsletters

Desirable:

• Experience in working with children
• Experience in working with partner organisations
• Creative writing experience (blogging, story writing).

Skills Abilities (Essential):

• Strong communication and writing skills
• Ability to provide practical solutions within set deadlines
• A working knowledge of the child protection act
• Multi-tasking skills
• Negotiation skills
• Excellent planning and prioritization skills.

Desirable:

• Photography skills

Personal Qualities:

• A person of integrity, creative and takes initiative, able to work effectively in a diverse team environment
• Organized and able to multi-task
• Willing to work additional hours at crucial times
• A self-motivated person able to work with minimum supervision
• Able to effectively promote the AAN’s mission values, and objectives.

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Grade: 7
Reporting to: Project Manager,Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL-Nigeria) Project
Line Management: None

Job Purpose

• The post holder will provide technical support and guidance in meeting the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) requirements of the Women’s Voice and Leadership-Nigeria Projectat all levels.
• The MEL Advisor will also provide leadership, guidance and support to implementing partners on all M&E components of WVL-Nigeria. 
• S/he will develop strategy and expertise on the results framework, key milestones, and monitoring and evaluation plan for the project. 
• The M&E Advisor will also with support from the ActionAid Nigeria’sImpact Assessment and Shared Learning Manager ensure that the project teamworkis in compliance with the project’s M&E frameworks and systems.
• The Women’s Voice and Leadership-Nigeria Project aims at supporting the capacity and activities of local women’s organizations and movements seeking to empower women and girls, advance the protection of women’s and girls’ rights and achieve gender equality.

Specific Responsibilities

• Work with the WVL-Nigeria project team to develop specific M&E framework for the project
• Work with WVL-Nigeria project team to ensure M&E plan meets the projectlog frameindicators 
• Support and contribute to the development of innovative knowledge management systems and communication across the WVL-Nigeria project and other related projects
• Supports M&E operations throughout the life of the WVL-Nigeria project.Meeting regularly with the WVL-NigeriaProject Manager, to troubleshoot problems, identify solutions and flag best practice
• Actively promote and support shared learning at organisational and inter-organisational levels
• Share and contribute to the development of innovative knowledge management and shared learning initiatives within the work streams of ActionAid Nigeria
• Implementprogramme and organisation learning activities of AAN
• Support Project Manager to produce reports in partnership with other members of the team
• Support strengthening capacities for improving documentation, monitoring and learning across WVL-Nigeria downstream partners at states level 
• Support in the management and administration of the AAN Management Information System 
• Others:
• Actively take part in the overall monitoring, impact assessment and shared learning procedure and strategy development of AAN.
• Assume any other responsibilities relevant to the position as assigned by the Project Manager WVL-Nigeria.

Key Working Relationships

• Internal: Entire AAN staff
• External: Donor, Partners, Community and other stakeholders.

Persons Specifications
Education / Qualifications

• First Degree in Arts / Humanities or Social Sciences (Essential)
• Master’s Degree in a relevant field (Desirable)

Experience:

• At least five years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation.
• Extensive experience in feminist monitoring, evaluation and learning
• Excellent working knowledge of Data information systems as well as Excel, Word & Outlook (MS Office in general) 
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative monitoring and evaluation skills and familiarity with the range of approaches and methods currently being deployed in the development sector with focus on feminist M&E
• Experience in the use of SPSS tool
• Experience in community-based work and use of various participatory M&E tools
• Experienceworking with international development organisations.

Skill Abilities:

• Strong communication and writing skills
• Ability to provide practical solutions within set deadlines.
• Ability to maintain donor relationship and accountability in line with funding policies and standards.
• Excellent skills to motivate and inspire a functional team will be essential
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills. 
• Multi-tasking skills
• Negotiation skills
• Excellent planning and prioritization skills
• Highly numerate
• Experience in facilitating training/meetings
• Excellent Skills in Programme Information Management.

Personal Qualities:

• Team player, a personof integrity
• Creative and takes initiative.
• Able to work effectively in a diverse team environment
• Willing to work additional hours at crucial times.
• Self-motivated person able to work without close supervision
• Effectively promote the AAN’s mission values, and objectives