Household Economic Strengthening Specialist, Nigeria OVC Program Job Vacancy in Nigeria

The OVC
program will focus on service delivery including: food and nutrition services, health
services , economic strengthening services, shelter and care services,
psychosocial support services, education/learning services, and protection
services.

Position
Summary: Pact seeks a Specialist in Household Economic Strengthening for a

USAID Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) umbrella grants program in Nigeria.
Recruitment is contingent upon successful award of the project. Candidate
experience should center on economic strengthening.

Potential
activities that the Specialist would develop or support include:

• Facilitating access to a full
  range of economic strengthening options depending on the needs and
  resources available to households (i.e. market opportunities assessments,
  group savings, income generation, micro-enterprise development training,
  other vocational training opportunities, etc.)
• Building awareness of key
  Household Economic Strengthening (HES) concepts and principles among local
  partner organizations.
• Developing and instructing
  partners in more effective methodologies for identifying appropriate HES
  interventions for specific households, depending on the needs and
  resources of specific households.
• Establishing and instructing
  local partners in principles and standards for designing and implementing
  economic strengthening activities (Applying a growing evidence base to
  further refine and extend principles and standards, as needed).
• Instructing partners to use HES
  resources, tools, processes and methodologies (including tools to
  facilitate market assessments, manage group savings programs, access
  micro-finance, support households to develop and scale-up businesses and
  identify value chains, etc.).
• Facilitating relationships
  between partners, market actors and organizations with special expertise
  in HES activities (i.e. micro-finance, micro-enterprise development ,
  etc.).
• Inventorying methods and survey
  instruments for measuring priority indicators along with criteria and
  guidance to help partners choose appropriate criteria for measuring the
  effectiveness of HES activities.
• Equipping partners with skills
  and resources to assess outcomes, as well as strengths and weaknesses of
  HES activities.
• Financing pilot or
  demonstration projects to test and adopt specific HES activities.
• Facilitating staff exchanges
  among partner organizations to foster peer-to-peer learning.
• Engaging in regular monitoring
  visits to evaluate the success of HES activities.
• Delivering intensive technical
  assistance to mentor partners as they re-engineer activities or undertake
  new activities.

• Effective written and oral
  communication s skills. These are essential to building relationships with
  donors, host country counterparts, and partner organizations.
• Knowledge of local languages a
  plus.
• Ability and willingness to
  travel.
• Flexibility to live and work
  outside Abuja, potentially in Kaduna or Enugu.
• Fluent English language skills,
  both written and spoken.
• Nigerian candidates strongly
  encouraged to apply.

• Bachelors Degree in a related
  subject area or equivalent work experience required.
• Masters Degree or higher in a
  related subject area preferred.
• minimum 5 years of experience.
• Experience with OVC development
  programming.

to apply
please visit us at: www.pactworld.org