Job Openings at Plan International, 14th November, 2019

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Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. We are recruiting to fill the position of: Job Title: Admin Assistant - YPA Location: FCT-Abuja, FC, NG Role Purpose

• To provide administrative, office and logistics support to the Youth Peace Academy (YPA) project and in line with policies of Plan International.

Dimension of Role:

• The role will contribute to effective implementation of the project by handling logistics arrangements for project implementation, correspondences and communications as assigned.

Key Roles/Responsibilities

• Be responsible for administrative duties and needs of the project including coordination of purchase requests; filling of records of activities and project documents; sending, receiving and distributing documents.
• Support the project, in liaison with the CO admin unit, with sourcing for quotations towards the procurement of goods and materials for program delivery as per corporate procedures to ensure value for money is obtained
• Support the Project Coordinator in the organisation of meetings and special events.
• Work in concert with the Country Programme’s Communications Advisor and the Project Officer on documentation of the actions of the project.
• Collate and maintain a record of relevant vendors as has been approved by the Admin unit of the Country Office.
• Collate and maintain a record of relevant consultants and specialists as has been identified by the project team and liaise with the Admin unit of the Country Office on the onboarding of same.
• Ensure that the project maintains a record of relevant venues, clinics and safeguarding facilities at all project’s locations.
• Responsible for purchase requisition creation and maintenance in SAP
• Liaise with the Admin unit for posting good receipt in SAP supported by a delivery note
• Perform additional and miscellaneous job-related duties for the office as assigned by Project Coordinator.

Technical Expertise, Skills and Knowledge Essential:

• Knowledge of general office practices and administrative procedures.
• BSc in Administrative studies or any other related field.
• Resourceful in gathering and providing information.
• University education and over 2 years of experience in administrative and project support.
• Demonstrated problem solving skills, collaboration experience, creativity and willingness to innovate
• Active interest in youth engagement, mobilisation and organising.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Basic financial and administrative skills.
• Communicates clearly and effectively appropriate to the audience
• Excellent research, analytical and writing skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English language skills
• Knowledge of Hausa language preferred but not required.

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online   Job Title: Project Officer - YPA Location: FCT-Abuja, FC, NG Role Purpose

• Support the project management and technical work of the Youth Peace Academy (YPA) project.

Dimensions of Role

• The Project Officer will provide relevant quality services to Plan International in the mobilisation, training, mentoring and supervision of young people of diverse ethnic and religious background in Plateau and Kaduna States to lead initiatives that build peace and tolerance in their communities.

Key Roles/Responsibilities

• Support the development and implementation of the project action plans including the review and update of training curricula.
• Support engagement with and mobilisation of young people in the project communities and other relevant young people organisations in the project states.
• Work with the Project Coordinator on the project’s advocacy and community mobilisation strategies, including development and deployment of engagement protocols, IEC materials and radio messages.
• Support the organisation of the training activities and refresher programmes for the cohorts of YPA and other young people’s platforms and groups relevant to the project.
• Participate actively in other capacity building exercises aimed at the cohorts of YPA using peace building history, skills, and concepts.
• Participate in program research processes in the project, including baseline and end line evaluations. Work to strengthen linkages between partners and community support structures.
• Support Gender Advisor in identifying, disseminate and address gender barriers to YPA programming outcomes.
• Provide regular updates to supervisor and other project team members to inform project programming decision making and advocacy efforts.
• Support periodic review of the YPA project design and activities, engagement with broad range of project stakeholders; and ensure M & E processes are implemented to capture quality project data for reporting and decision making by regularly collecting project level data, to track progress against planned service delivery outputs and outcomes, using RBM methodologies.
• Work with the Project Coordinator in the provision of support to partner activities to ensure consistency with project objectives.
• Work with community based structures for successful implementation of community outreach services.
• Support regular advocacies to local stakeholders to improve and sustain project buy-in and operations.
• Support the establishment and maintenance of good working relationship with the relevant State actors, local government authorities and other stakeholders.
• Assume any other responsibility as assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience managing peacebuilding, youth leadership, or civil society strengthening projects in developing country contexts and preferably in Nigeria or ECOWAS states.
• University education and over 3 years of experience in peacebuilding, youth leadership, or civil society strengthening, or a related field and demonstrated experience in management of community-based projects.
• Experience of and commitment to policy influencing, networking and advocacy work.
• Demonstrated expertise in and commitment to developing the leadership of young people.
• Demonstrated knowledge and background in service providers and consultant relations management.
• Demonstrated problem solving skills, collaboration experience, creativity and willingness to innovate.
• Experience writing meetings and activities reports.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Basic financial and administrative skills.
• Communicates clearly and effectively appropriate to the audience
• Excellent research, analytical and writing skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English language skills
• Knowledge of Hausa language preferred but not required

Personal Qualities:

• A strong commitment to youth engagement, peace building, human rights and social justice.
• An appreciation of the need for innovative ways of learning and knowledge development.

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online     Job Title: Grants and Compliance Manager Location: FCT-Abuja, FC, NG Role Purpose

• The role of the Grant and Compliance Manager is to contribute strategically to the overall management of Plan International Nigeria’s grants portfolio, support the finance unit in budgeting for quality project implementation.
• The role will require the job holder to coordinate and be accountable for all grant activities at Country level, ensure achievement of Country grant portfolios growth plans, ensure high quality and timeliness communications with donors and managing effective working relationships with the National Offices and bilateral and multilateral organizations at County level. Furthermore, provide oversight and analysis of the financial health of assigned projects while ensuring compliance to donor requirements.

Dimension of Role

• The role reports to the Director of Partnerships and Business Development, leads the grants team and supports other field staff to ensure the grants are implemented and reported in line with the contractual agreement.

Key Roles/Responsibilities Management:

• Lead the implementation and monitoring of grant policies, objectives, activity plans, timelines and make recommendations for the effective management of grants and compliance
• Contribute to the collective and informed decisions made by the Country Leadership team (CLT) on issues related to grant management and compliance.
• Facilitate the establishment and implementation of standards of accountability, effectiveness and efficiency in the achievement of organizational grant objectives.
• Represent Plan International in external engagements that are related to grant and compliance.
• Participate as a member of the Country Leadership Team (CLT)

Grant Management:

• Continue to maintain overview of available budgets, budget versus actuals, pre-empting future realignments and advising on course correction and responding to information requests.
• Work collaboratively with Project Managers, to prepare, review, submit, and oversee project budgets and forecasts, ensuring alignment with project activities.
• Work closely with finance team to develop and implement a standardized package for quality financial management of grant funded projects including standard KPIs, budget and reporting guidelines, Gift in Kind treatment, procurement and asset management plans, compliance training, project start-up and closing procedures.

Ensure that the Grants Advisor and Officers:

• Keep relevant grant sections of SAP up to date, for allocated projects.
• Ensure Grant/FAD files & filing systems (both electronic and hard copies) are properly maintained.
• Support the effective start-up of new grants (system set-up, FAD activation, start-up workshop etc)
• Hold monthly calls with project managers to monitor progress on grants & hold quarterly updates with NO colleagues on project
• Conduct regular field office visits to support grant monitoring, compliance and reporting
• Update key grant management systems, including donor reporting trackers and grant status report.
• Receive and review narrative and financial reports on a timely basis, and submit before the NO or donor deadline.
• Work closely with project manager and finance staff to keep an overview of financial progress of active grants through regular review of expenditure against approved budget.
• Support the effective closure of grants (including assets transfer, final evaluation, audits and reporting, and final system closure).

Internal and External Financial reporting:

• Act as the primary point of contact for all grant management related communications to/from the National Organizations; including donor opportunities, responding to donor queries; requests for visits, etc.
• Ensure Donor Financial reports and related financials are finalized and submitted on time, per donor requirements/formats, ensuring alignment with narrative reports.
• Support Field offices and project teams to setup efficient financial reporting forms in line with requirements of the project, donor and Plan financial systems.
• Participate in feedback mechanism to capture lessons learned from projects in implementation to inform future budget development and build on donor intelligence from compliance perspective.

Donor Compliance, Risk and Audit:

• Identify areas of risk by providing regular analysis of financial health of projects against standard key performance indicators (KPIs) and develop strategies to mitigate these risks.
• Provide training and ongoing support to relevant stakeholders including project team members, Plan Nigeria’s field offices and partners on understanding donor financial compliance, identifying financial risks and other best practices related to financial management and ensuring compliance requirements are understood and adhered to at all levels.
• Ensure all project expenditures and contracts are in compliance with terms and conditions of donor agreements by conducting regular desk audits as well as occasional in-field audits.
• Work closely with Country programme teams to prepare for donor audits. Oversee coordination of donor audits with field offices for assigned portfolio of projects.
• Continuously evaluate Projects Financial Risks and update Risk Registers as required for escalation to Management, including mitigation measures.
• Review donor and partner agreements ensuring the financial terms and conditions are compatible with Plan’s systems and are favourable to quality implementation and reporting.

Essential Experience

• Experience developing and implementing successful programme funding strategies and of delivering income against targets.
• Development and / or humanitarian programming experience, and a good understanding of international development and humanitarian issues
• Applied knowledge of project and grant cycle management including problem analysis, project design, financial planning and management, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience securing institutional funding grants and contracts at a multimillion level
• Experience preparing quality narrative and financial reports for institutional donors
• Sound knowledge of humanitarian funding policy and typical contract rules and procedures
• Experience establishing and cultivating strong donor relationships that have delivered substantially increased income
• Experience of managing a team of staff and promoting high performance
• Experience working with people from different cultures to deliver complex work tasks

Skills and Abilities:

• Qualified to degree level in relevant subject (International development, social sciences etc). MBA is desired and regarded as an asset.
• Proven experience in financial management, including financial reporting and analysis, developing costing models / budgets at the project design stage and risk assessment and mitigation for €2M+ Proposals.
• Ability to interpret and analyse complex information from a range of sources and present to a donor in a detailed and accurate way.
• Demonstrated knowledge and prior experience working with a wide variety of international development funding agency rules, regulations and contracting structures, including experience with donor agencies such as USAID, DFID, EU, SIDA, GiZ, GFFO, BMZ, Global Affairs Canada, UNICEF, UNFPA, WFP, UNOCHA amongst other donors.
• Proven facilitation, training and capacity building skills, ideally in supporting partners or colleagues.
• The numerical ability to analyse financial information, budget and monitor costs.
• Excellent communication skills, particularly to produce high quality written narrative.
• Confidence to operate in a strategic leadership role and to engage with senior managers
• Ability to think and work proactively and flexibly, creatively and strategically under pressure or when faced with competing demands.
• Ability to work well in a team and cross-organisationally and to establish excellent relationships with colleagues from different functions and cultures.
• Confident and proficient in the use of MS Office.

Deadline: 27th November, 2019 How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online

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