Girl Effect, is an organisation working to break the cycle of inter-generational poverty. We do this by investing in programmes for girls, connecting girls to each other to amplify their voices, and brokering access to the critical assets girls need. We drive behaviour change by harnessing media in innovative ways and building social networks to shift girls perceptions of themselves and how others value them.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: TEGA Project Manager
Location: Nigeria
Department: Project Management
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Detailed Description
- We’re currently looking for an experienced Project Manager to ensure TEGA is safely and efficiently operated in existing regions in Nigeria, with efficient management of delivery to multiple internal and external clients.
- Technology Enabled Girl Ambassadors (TEGA)s are currently active in 5 countries – Nigeria, Rwanda, Malawi, India and the US. This year TEGA is also launching into Bangladesh. With the exception of Nigeria, these networks are new and predominantly serving Girl Effect’s internal research needs.
- Nigeria is TEGA’s most established network, with TEGA operations present in Kano, Borno and Lagos. The strategy moving forward is to turn these networks into busy, commercially successful research operations, serving the needs of like-minded development and private sector organisations.
Key Responsibilities
- TEGA’s key FY18 objective will be to localise and implement TEGA’s global FY18 strategy.
- The TEGA Project Manager will play a key role in making this happen, by helping to evolve the TEGA Nigeria operations into established commercially successful operations serving the research needs of Girl Effect and like-minded, mission aligned external partners from the public and private sectors.
- The TEGA Project Manager will be responsible for the day to day running of the TEGA operations. Specifically:
Project and Account Management:
- Implement the local account management process
- Ensure TEGA’s internal and external project targets are met
- Account manage TEGA’s partners, ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget
- Support the Project Officer with procurement and management of consultants/ vendors, external and internal partners who want to conduct research through the TEGA networks.
- Support the Project Officer in the contract management process on Salesforce from preparation and signing through to invoicing and payment.
- Assist with lead generation and project manage new business pitches
- Track teams, agencies and local partners’ deliverables and flag to team if they are off track in terms of timeframe and/or budget
- If required, field visits to sites to support coordination and organization of TEGA research projects and/or training.
- Maintain and update comprehensive files including profile information of all partners and ensure that all relevant partner documents are uploaded to and easily accessible on the Google Drive.
Support and Coordination:
- Organise and lead project meetings, logistics, team attendance and note taking (for internal and external projects)
- Support Senior TEGA Manager, on budget development and management
- New research location process management in collaboration with other team members
- Conduct Local Partner recruitment process for new locations in Nigeria.
- Facilitate continued and open lines of communication across the Girl Effect Team and Products (Girls Connect, Springster, other) to ensure information sharing and informed decision making to take advantage of synergistic (and ‘value for money’) opportunities.
- Participate in all strategic and programme planning, budget reforecasting, training, team building and related activities of the Girl Effect Nigeria team and contribute to the overall development of the organisation.
- Adherence to Girl Effect Global policies and procedures as well as their Code of Conduct
- Comprehensive knowledge/document management in relation to all clients/partners with regular (at least monthly) uploads to the Google Drive to include partner profile data, proposals, reports, MoUs and so on.
Skills and Experience
- Minimum 5 years project / account management experience ideally within the research or technology sector
- Ability to communicate and build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, parents and investors.
- Pioneers attitude: Thrives in being part of a pioneering team, who often break new ground and invent new and disruptive ways of working.
General:
- Highly organised and process driven
- Strong work ethic with follow through to task/project completion
- A collaborative team player;
- Culturally aware and respectful – curious and sensitive about the cultures in which we operate;
- Ability to work effectively in multicultural teams with varying expertise, skills and backgrounds;
- Adaptable – able to work in complex, unfamiliar and changing environments;
- Excellent critical analysis and thinking skills;
- Positive, energetic, can-do attitude;
- Clear interest in working in developing countries;
- Commitment to realizing the potential of girls and to the vision and values of Girl Effect.
How to Apply
Job Title: TEGA Counsellor
Location: Abuja
Department: Safeguarding, Other
Vacancy Type: Consultancy
Job Description
- We’re looking for a consultant to work with us as we help provide TEGAs (Technology Enabled Girl Ambassadors) in Nigeria with a counselling service to support their emotional wellbeing throughout their engagement as researchers for Girl Effect.
- This is a consultancy contract for an initial duration of 3 months.
- Once the service is set up and running for 3 months – to test its validity and value added to the experience of TEGAs – we then hope to continue the support if the pilot goes well and may possibly extend and replicate for an additional 9 month period.
- The counselling service will include two components:
- Regular sessions with all TEGAs face-to-face (ideally once a month)
- On demand one-to-one support through a phone service provided at a pre-established time (ideally once a week).
Deliverables
- Initial proposal with articulation of TEGAs needs and the approach chosen to adequately address them
- Induction meetings with relevant staff members of Girl Effect and partners working on TEGAs
- Consultations with TEGAs to better understand their needs
- Finalized proposal and activities work plan
- Implementation of the activities
- Support the evaluation of the pilot
- Final report with an overview of the activities conducted (i.e.. Number of sessions, number of face-to-face/telephone sessions); the main themes / issues raised by the TEGAs but without names or details; any learning for Girl Effect & implications for support provided to TEGAs. and recommendations for scale up.
Important Note:
- The consultant will be required to outline a clear approach to confidentiality and to explain this to the TEGAs on first meeting them.
- In most instances, we would expect the boundaries of confidentiality will be such that no information discussed within the counselling sessions will be disclosed to an external third party without the consent of the TEGA.
- However, the counsellor must also explain how they would respond if the TEGA disclosed a situation of abuse or harm and how they would act to ensure the best interest of the child or young person who is at risk.
- Within the confidentiality agreement, Girl Effect would expect to be informed if any instances where our staff, partners or operations had caused harm or abuse so that we could take appropriate action to ensure our duty of care to the TEGAs and others affected by our work.
Skills and Experience Required
- Professional training in counselling, social or psychological services
- Previous experience in providing counselling and psychosocial support to young people, in particular girls
- Ability to listen
- Have good overall communication skills
- Ability to work autonomously, planning and running support sessions
- Knowledge of the Northern Nigeria context
- Knowledge of Hausa Language
Application Requirements
To apply, please include the following in your application:
- CV
- A proposal of maximum two pages outlining the following:
- Your experience as counsellor
- Your individual approach to counselling and psychosocial support
- How you view clients and how you envisage to structure counselling for TEGAs
- The importance of confidentiality and ethical behavior in working with TEGAs
- An estimated budget
How to Apply
Job Title: Senior TEGA Manager
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Department: Operations
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Job Description
- We’re currently looking for an experienced Senior Manager to localise and implement TEGA’s global FY18 strategy, by evolving the TEGA Nigeria operations into established commercially successful operations serving the research needs of Girl Effect and like-minded, mission aligned external partners from the public and private sectors.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities will include specifically localising and implementing:
- TEGA’s legal and governance procedures and policies
- The pricing model for TEGA’s internal (Girl Effect), Public and Private sector clients.
- The operational model for launching new TEGA networks
- The process for conducting a research project, ensuring all projects are delivered on brief, on time and budget.
- Ensure continuous positive relationships with existing partners
- Develop fruitful and positive relationships with new GEN partners, inputting to TORs, finalising contracts efficiently and ensuring trainings needs are identified and fulfilled to facilitate adherence to GE Policies e.g. Safeguarding.
- The process for maintaining the safety of the TEGAs and respondents, and ensuring the quality of the research output
- Managing and supporting the TEGA Nigeria team ensuring that all team members are clear on their roles and delivering on their objectives
- Sharing local learnings to help shape and strengthen the global TEGA operation
- Sharing learnings and opportunities with the other Girl Effect products to catalyse integration.
- Ensure TEGA in country is full understood and gets wide in country support from GEN Team and Country Director
- Oversee the TEGA Project Coordinator and have regular meetings to ensure that TEGA knowledge management is well maintained and updated
- Participate in all strategic and programme planning, budget reforecasting, training, team building and related activities of the Girl Effect Nigeria team and contribute to the overall development of the organisation.
Skills and Experience
- Minimum 10 years managerial experience from either the technology or research sector.
- Proven experience and success in growing a new innovation / small operation into a successful, commercial business.
- Proven experience in global south / developing world.
- Ability to communicate and build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, clients and investors.
- Pioneers attitude: Thrives in being part of a pioneering team, who often break new ground and invent new and disruptive ways of working.
- Experience of managing a team
General:
- A strategic thinker
- A motivational, thoughtful leader
- A collaborative team player;
- Culturally aware and respectful – curious and sensitive about the cultures in which we operate;
- Ability to work effectively in multicultural teams with varying expertise, skills and backgrounds;
- Adaptable – able to work in complex, unfamiliar and changing environments;
- Excellent critical analysis and thinking skills;
- Positive, energetic, can-do attitude;
- Clear interest in working in developing countries;
- Commitment to realizing the potential of girls and to the vision and values of Girl Effect.
How to Apply
Deadline: 1st September, 2017.
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