Senior Project Manager - Digital Livelihoods & Inclusivity - National

General Position Summary

Reporting to the Project Director, the Senior Project Manager is the primary in-country lead responsible for skilling and supply-side interventions, equipping underserved youth (disadvantaged young women, displaced populations and people with disabilities) to thrive on platforms. S/he is responsible for designing interventions which will enable these target populations to gain access and earn meaningfully from specific platform opportunities, and managing the interventions’ delivery (which could include skilling, coaching, asset transfer, or other activities) through Inclusivity Partners (NGOs, CBOs and other local providers).

Additionally, he/she collaborates with other departments, including the Venture Support team that engages directly with platforms to make them more inclusive. S/he oversees contracting and subgrant management with local partners alongside the Operations team. The role requires strong leadership and people-management skills, a demand-led orientation, and the ability to build relationships across a wide set of actors including private-sector partners, and community-based, refugee-led and disabled people’s organizations. The role manages the Project Officer for Skilling & Inclusion Safeguarding and is accountable for embedding safeguarding across all delivery.

Essential Job Responsibilities

Strategy and Intervention Design (30%)

Provide overall leadership for the Inclusivity Department’s delivery in Nigeria, translating the inclusivity strategy agreed with the Platform Inclusion Lead into a delivery plan and targets across the three populations

Identify adaptations to the program model for the Nigerian context, geographic targeting, and/or recommended interventions

Work with partners to design interventions which will equip participants for work based on specific platform opportunities

Partner and Stakeholder Management (50%)

Identify, assess and onboard Inclusivity Partners e.g. community-based organisations, refugee-led organisations and disabled people’s organisations

Build capacity of partners to dynamically respond to private sector needs

Coordinate connections between Inclusivity Partners and DAWN portfolio platforms

Ensure quality of service delivery by Inclusivity Partners, and ensure that activities adapt to needs of youth and platforms. Conduct direct oversight, and ensure oversight work of Project Officer.

Coordinate procurement, contracting and administrative processes of inclusivity Partners ensuring compliance with organisational and donor policies

Track and manage partner progress against workplans and budgets

Serve as the program’s primary liaison with relevant regulatory and refugee-authority stakeholders in Nigeria, coordinating closely with the Mercy Corps Nigeria country office and the DAWN Project Director

Collaboration with other departments (10%)

Feed market insight, evidence and emerging patterns from delivery back into the program’s wider learning

Contribute the inclusivity lens to wider ecosystem and support in-market convenings and engagements

Contribute to identifying, assessing and engaging jobtech platforms in Nigeria that are well placed to onboard target populations

Support Venture Support to make platforms more inclusive by contributing inclusivity insights

Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning & Reporting (5%)

Work with Inclusivity Partners to use the tracking systems set up by the Results Measurement team to learn and iterate early to improve delivery of interventions to achieve target outcomes

Conduct field visits to verify data accuracy and collect qualitative insights, ensuring all data is disaggregated by gender, disability and displacement

Contribute insights and lessons learned to research and donor reporting

Safeguarding (5%)

Oversee implementation of the Community Accountability Reporting Mechanism in Nigeria. Decide on responses and/escalations of safeguarding reports or concerns.

Actively learn about safeguarding and integrate it into the program’s work, including safeguarding risks and mitigations related to their area of work .

Practice the values of Mercy Corps, including respecting the dignity and well-being of participants and fellow team members

Encourage openness and communication in their team; encourage team members to submit reports if they have any concerns using reporting mechanisms e.g., Integrity Hotline and other options

Team Leadership and Management

Line-manage the Project Officer; supporting performance, development and maintaining clear priorities as the program evolves

Practices the values of Mercy Corps, including respecting the dignity and well-being of participants and fellow team members

Encourages openness and communication in their team; encourages team members to submit reports if they have any concerns using reporting mechanisms e.g., Integrity Hotline and other options

Minimum Qualification and Transferable Skills

Demonstrated experience and understanding of livelihoods programming (ideally digital livelihoods) with at least one or more of the program’s target populations; young women, refugees and displaced people, and/or persons with disabilities is a must; experience across two or more is strongly preferred

Minimum of 6 years’ experience in project management, livelihoods, employment or a related field, including at least 4 years managing teams and implementing programs

Demonstrated expertise in designing livelihoods activities and interventions

Experience setting up delivery in a new market; setting up partnerships, systems and teams is strongly preferred

Experience engaging with the private sector (as placement partner/collaborator or as a staff) is required. Experience working with refugees or disability inclusion is strongly preferred

A history of excellence in achieving results and self-management

Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, work planning, and managing project budgets and donor compliance

Bachelor’s degree in development studies, Economics, Business Administration, Social Sciences, or other related fields; a postgraduate qualification is an advantage

Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), and a collaborative approach to working with

Working and written fluency in English, given work with a regional English-speaking

Outstanding analytical capacity, with capacity to bring clarity for others and make quick decisions

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Minimum qualifications

BA/BSc/HND

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