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Abuja Lagos |
Posted 3 years ago |
JOB TITLE: Grants Monitoring and Evaluation Officer – Nigeria Youths Future Funds
JOB LOCATIONS: Abuja and Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Type: 5-year Contract (renewable annually) years contract.
Role: Mid Level
JOB DETAILS:
- The Nigeria Youth Futures Funds (NYFF) Project is aimed at strengthening and enabling youth leadership and activism in Nigeria through outcomes-driven policy engagements and inclusive resourcing that help youth shape the future long-term development plans of the country.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
Grant Management:
- Coordinate, in collaboration with the Project lead and other relevant stakeholders all activities relating to the preparation, management, research and review of all grants applications by programme beneficiaries.
- Establish processes and procedures for the negotiation and award of contracts including grant pre-awards and post-awards actions to meet relevant requirements; Ensure compliance with appropriate federal, state, and local regulations.
- Maintain accurate documentation and records of all proposals and funding activities; effectively manage a large database of beneficiaries; prepare special reports and analyses of the data gathered for this project.
- Manage all grant related communication, enquiries, queries on the grant giving and reporting process.
Monitoring and Evaluation:
- Conduct proper monitoring and evaluation for the implementation of grant contracts and awards, ensuring adherence to all terms and conditions of the grant contracts.
- Create and provide monitoring and evaluation tools to sub grantees.
- Collaborate with the finance unit to prepare relevant budgets for the programme and financial reports relating to grants administration.
- Report to and work closely with the NYYF Programmes Lead and the LEAP MERL team in fulfilment of all your job tasks and deliverables.
- Prepare thematic reports and share regular weekly and monthly reports with all relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Produce several research products such as articles, opinion pieces, evaluation reports and learning materials to be distributed across appropriate channels in different formats.
- Achieve milestones and objectives of the NYFF project.
- Participate and/or assist in special projects and perform associated administrative duties.
- Engage in other tasks that may emerge as a result of the growth of the organization and as assigned by your Supervisor
- Generate insights and recommendations for communicating the impact of the NYFF project.
Requirements
The required candidate should possess the following:
- Bachelor’s Degree in any field.
- Experienced in grant administration, monitoring and evaluation.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Good organizational and administrative skills, with a keen eye for detail.
- Possess very good interpersonal skills, negotiation skill, sound judgment.
- Strong presentation skills and experience in leading stakeholders meetings.
- Strong work ethics.
- Proficient in the use of MS office suite, Google suite, data entry and analysis tools.
- Performance driven and mission oriented.
- Self driven and motivated.
- Aligned with LEAP Africa and partner organizations with youth leadership, activism and social change.
- Entrepreneurial in nature and proactive.
- Looking to work in a fast paced project and organisation.
- Aligned in thought and actions with LEAP ‘s values ( RISE – Respect, Integrity, Synergy and Excellence).
Key Technical Competencies:
- Program / Project Management Skills
- Grant management
- Monitoring and Evaluation Skills
- Report writing Skills
- Communications Skills
- Stakeholder Management Skills
- Strong organisational skills
- Budget Management Skills
- Training / Facilitation Skills
- Impact Measurement Skills.
Remuneration
Competitive
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Deadline: October 25, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Monitoring & Evaluation |