Social Protection Capacity Development Advisor

Required Qualifications, Competences, and Experience
Qualifications:

• A University Degree in Social policy, Sociology, Social Work, Economics, Statistics, Operations Research, Development Studies, Political Science, Social Sciences, or similar area of study.

Professional experience:

• A minimum of 5 years’ professional work experience in relevant thematic areas of the Programme (Social Protection, Data Analysis, Social Registers, Social Policy, Governance, Institutional strengthening & Capacity Building).
• Good knowledge of the Nigerian Social Protection context at the federal and sub-national levels.
• A strong ability in database management, data analysis, institutional strengthening, and management of social registers. 
• Effective project management skills and experience managing or working in complex multi-faceted projects.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, multidisciplinary, and highly political context.
• Familiarity with gender mainstreaming in social protection programming.

Other knowledge, additional competences:

• Strong writing, reporting and presentation skills.
• A very good working knowledge of Office 365 tools (i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Teams)
• Proficient in performance-driven planning monitoring and reporting.
• Resourceful, resilient and with an ability to stay motivated in the face of setbacks or during periods of pressure.
• Self-motivated, performance oriented and with good analytical ability.
• Solutionist orientation.
• Spoken and written language skills in English will be required. Fluency in Hausa and/or Kanuri would be an asset.

Required Qualifications, Competences, and Experience
Qualifications:

• A University Degree in Social policy, Sociology, Social Work, Economics, Statistics, Operations Research, Development Studies, Political Science, Social Sciences, or similar area of study.

Professional experience:

• A minimum of 5 years’ professional work experience in relevant thematic areas of the Programme (Social Protection, Data Analysis, Social Registers, Social Policy, Governance, Institutional strengthening & Capacity Building).
• Good knowledge of the Nigerian Social Protection context at the federal and sub-national levels.
• A strong ability in database management, data analysis, institutional strengthening, and management of social registers. 
• Effective project management skills and experience managing or working in complex multi-faceted projects.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, multidisciplinary, and highly political context.
• Familiarity with gender mainstreaming in social protection programming.

Other knowledge, additional competences:

• Strong writing, reporting and presentation skills.
• A very good working knowledge of Office 365 tools (i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Teams)
• Proficient in performance-driven planning monitoring and reporting.
• Resourceful, resilient and with an ability to stay motivated in the face of setbacks or during periods of pressure.
• Self-motivated, performance oriented and with good analytical ability.
• Solutionist orientation.
• Spoken and written language skills in English will be required. Fluency in Hausa and/or Kanuri would be an asset.

• Under the general guidance of the Head of Social Protection Component, and in close collaboration with the Social Policy Advisor, the Social Protection Policy Advisor is responsible for the following:

Programme Planning & Implementation – State Social Registries:

• Analyze key research studies, evaluations, and reports on social protection in Nigeria to identify and document lessons and produce analytical summaries for internal use and / or policy application.
• Support the design and implementation of approaches towards broadening and quality improvements of the State Social Registers (SSRs). 
• Support the design and development of approaches towards strengthening the integrity and visibility of the State Social

Registers (SSRs) through effective multi-stakeholder engagements:

• Facilitate institutional capacity development support to the State Operations Coordinating Units (SOCUs) in intervention states. 
• Support the design of approaches & initiatives for data protection of the SSRs in line with the national data protection law.
• Facilitate high level political advocacy and engagement in intervention states with the State Operations Coordinating Units (SOCUs) for the usage of the State Social Registers (SSRs) by a broad range of state and non-state stakeholders. 
• Provide technical advice and support to the state social registries towards the identification and enumeration of poor and vulnerable households. 
• Design and implement capacity building initiatives for staff of the state social registries.
• Design and implement sustainable approaches for institutional support to the state social registries. 
• Facilitate the contracting of consultants and service providers and monitoring of the implementation of such services. 

Grants Management and Reporting:

• Support the development of calls for proposals, assessment of partner proposals and preparation of the grant agreements. 
• Ensure grants monitoring efforts including checking of the financial reports/documents of partner(s) before submission to programme finance team and HQ, giving feedback on adjustments needed for correction of financial reports, ensuring that expenditure tallies with budget provisions.
• Identify, mitigate, and communicate about risks around external stakeholders’ engagement, strategy/programme, people finance, operations, compliance, and environment.

Tasks
Knowledge Management, Monitoring, Visibility, and other Duties

• In close liaison with the M&E Advisors support effective impact monitoring and reporting for the Components in line with the requirements of the commissioning parties (EU and BMZ).
• Support effective communication and visibility of the Programme and in line with requirements of commissioning parties.

Other duties/additional tasks:

• Performs other duties and tasks at the request of management