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Program Officer, West Africa

Abstract Description:

The Ford Basis’s West Africa Office seeks a dynamic, progressive Program Officer to be part of a workforce that’s driving and shaping the inspiration’s social justice work in West Africa. The West Africa Workplace technique focuses on: gender-based violence and pure assets governance. This function will primarily help the Basis’s work on gender primarily based violence below its Gender, Racial and Ethnic Justice International Program.

The Program Officer needs to be well-versed in gender and social norms responsive programming with a specific give attention to gender-based violence prevention approaches and have a sensible information of gender frameworks such because the Gender, Equality, and Social Inclusion Framework (GESI). The best candidate would have a multidisciplinary and worldwide background, robust social science analysis expertise, and they need to perceive the West African context particularly Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal in that order. Along with bringing an intersectional lens and gender evaluation to this work, candidates ought to have a dedication to decreasing social inequality.

The Program Officer will assist assume by way of engagements with spiritual and cultural establishments, leaders of religion and tradition, girls’s and civil society organizations on stopping gender-based violence in addition to working with governments of the focal international locations on enhancing funding and packages for gender primarily based violence intervention.

The Program Officer is liable for the event of grant portfolios and all associated actions, primarily based on the methods and approaches outlined within the Basis’s Thematic areas and regional context. They guarantee grantmaking methods are developed to help the Basis’s strategic improvement framework: constructing robust and impactful establishments, supporting the management of individuals and supporting impactful tasks.

The Program Officer can be primarily based within the Ford Basis’s Lagos workplace and can report back to the Basis’s Regional Director. They are going to construct relationships with colleagues in West Africa and within the Basis’s different regional workplaces and the New York workplace.

Background:

In West Africa, the main target of the Basis is to make sure that pure assets and local weather change points are addressed in an equitable and simply method below its Natural Resources and Climate Change Program and gender primarily based violence (GBV) is tackled below its Gender Racial and Ethnic Justice (GREJ) Program with explicit reference to prevention as a response.

With respect to GBV in West Africa, nationwide statistics paint a grim image – whilst we all know these statistics symbolize vital underreporting. In 2018, a staggering 31% of females aged 15 to 49 in Nigeria reported experiencing sexual or bodily violence of their lives. The scenario is made worse by the tacit tradition of acceptance bolstered by spiritual and social norms. These social norms replicate deep patriarchal beliefs in regards to the roles and values of ladies in broader society, particularly girls and women in rural areas and underserved city communities. So far, efforts to cut back GBV have tended to be reactive, resulting in elevated criminalization quite than investments focused at prevention, and particularly shifting social norms.

On the Ford Basis Workplace West Africa, we imagine that shifting the social norms that allow GBV will lead to higher impression than merely specializing in response after the actual fact. We’re working towards a society the place social and cultural norms defend girls and women from violence of their on a regular basis lives utilizing a multi-pronged strategy involving authorities, civil society (significantly girls and feminist actions), conventional, spiritual and neighborhood (TRC) leaders, and the personal sector in difficult destructive social norms that exacerbate violence. To do that, we need to domesticate numerous champions to shift cultural norms and practices to forestall GBV; advocate for efficient authorized and political responses to forestall GBV and prioritize affected girls’s voices in all facets of GBV prevention. Our work is finished by way of an intersectional lens that takes incapacity, youth and inclusion into consideration.

Duties

The Program Officer is liable for the event and implementation of a grant portfolio and making certain all associated actions (grant making, convenings, thought management, civil society strengthening, authorities relations) are designed to ship on the Workplace’s objectives and techniques. They are going to assess and analyze the panorama of organizations and establish which actors to work with to form agendas that will promote particular strategic outcomes and make grants to this finish. The Program Officer shares classes with Basis colleagues worldwide; collaborates broadly with the West Africa workplace workforce; collaborates with different members of the worldwide GREJ workforce; and serves as a ‘connector’ of grantees. They work with leaders in a wide range of sectors on problems with widespread concern to leverage assets in direction of widespread objectives.

Extra particularly as a part of a multi-disciplinary workforce, the Program Officer will:

• Handle, monitor and coordinate a grants portfolio, together with: annual grant planning, figuring out and dealing with the Basis’s grantees to develop proposals for grant suggestions, enterprise periodic critiques of progress with grantees, performing grantee web site visits, and reviewing monetary and narrative stories from grantees.
• Contribute to the continuing improvement and implementation of workforce methods, working to meet the Basis’s West Africa Workplace and the worldwide program objectives.
• Develop grant making actions in a team-oriented method, which can be aligned with world and native technique objectives, and designed to attain vital and scalable impression.
• Contribute to making sure that intersectional programming is realized throughout all traces of labor.
• Develop and implement grantee convenings and reflections to strategize and evaluation alternatives, challenges and advances.
• Suggest and take part in studying and analysis actions to information the evolution of programmatic work, promote alternate and strategic partnership.
• Symbolize the Basis and its work to the federal government, media, academia, enterprise, philanthropic and civic leaders by way of conferences, updates, speeches, briefings and interviews, with steering from the Regional Director.
• Play a management function throughout the workforce, working towards and influencing workforce collaboration, workforce constructing and workforce effectiveness, modeling these abilities for the workforce.
• Function a mentor and coach to Program Affiliate and Program Assistant.

{Qualifications}:

• A minimal of 8 years of expertise main social justice methods and a Grasp’s diploma in a associated subject of examine or related and equal expertise.
• Topic-matter experience in gender and demonstration of robust generalist cross-cutting work within the social justice enviornment.
• Distinctive management presence – internally and externally.
• Distinctive communications abilities – robust lively listening abilities, constructive verbal and written abilities, robust public presentation abilities.
• Deep understanding of the regional context and cultures.
• Demonstrated means to be a productive member of a neighborhood of individuals at work, respecting variations whereas working towards shared objectives, consolation with durations of ambiguity, constructive participation in ongoing organizational improvement.
• Wonderful written and verbal communication abilities in English.
• Willingness to work to a versatile schedule, together with occasional journey throughout the area and overseas.

Bodily Necessities:

This place is primarily a sedentary function. The place requires behind-the-desk administrative work associated to grant making. The particular person on this place may have to sometimes transfer about contained in the workplace to liaise with inside employees, entry information, workplace equipment and a replica machine/printer. Moreover, home/worldwide journey can be anticipated (roughly 30%) to go to grantees and attend discussions, convenings, workshops, retreats and conferences.

The Ford Basis is dedicated to offering entry, equal alternative and cheap lodging for people with disabilities in employment, its packages, and operations. As a part of this dedication, the Basis will be certain that individuals with disabilities are offered cheap lodging. If an inexpensive lodging is required to take part within the job software course of, please contact [email protected].

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Wage: Compensation is predicated on expertise and on the Basis’s dedication to inside fairness. A beneficiant advantages package deal is offered.

To Apply: Please submit each a resume and canopy letter so as to be thought-about. The deadline to use is Might 2nd, 2024.

Alignment to Tradition and Values

• Dedication to the Basis’s mission and core values of fairness, openness, collaboration, belief, accountability and urgency
• Private qualities of humility, capability for self-reflection, and a humorousness
• Discretion and skill to deal with confidential points
• Motion-orientated and entrepreneurial self-starter who can work properly independently and in groups

Advantages

• Hybrid Office and Versatile Work Association insurance policies
• Medical and dental advantages for worker and quick household on first day of labor
• Retirement financial savings account with matching firm contributions of as much as 13%
• Three weeks’ paid trip in first yr of labor; 4 weeks in subsequent years
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Workplace closed the week between Christmas and New 12 months’s Day
• Skilled improvement initiatives for development
• Beneficiant parental go away (maternal and paternal) throughout new little one’s first yr (born into household or adopted)

Equal employment alternative and having a various employees are elementary ideas at The Ford Basis, the place employment and promotional alternatives are primarily based upon particular person capabilities and {qualifications} with out regard to race, coloration, faith, gender, being pregnant, sexual orientation/affectional choice, age, nationwide origin, marital standing, citizenship, incapacity, veteran standing or another protected attribute as established below legislation. The Ford Basis doesn’t discriminate towards previously incarcerated people.