Girl Effect, a not for profit human development organisation working to break the cycle of inter-generational poverty. We drive behaviour change by harnessing media in innovative ways and building social networks to shift girls perceptions of themselves and how others value them.
POSITION : Girls Connect Senior Manager
Description
We're now looking for a dynamic individual to join the Gender team and work collaboratively to drive Girls Connect to scale across Nigeria. The Gender team is Girl Effect’s gender technical function that integrates gender technical expertise into Girl Effect’s unique approach to social norm change for girls’ empowerment. The Gender team is also the function that leads Girls Connect, combining gender expertise with sound innovation, design and project management capabilities to realise the product’s vision.
Responsible for driving forward core components of Girls Connect and will work closely with the Gender team in Nigeria and core Girls Connect team in London to ensure the product is taken to scale for Phase 3 and create a path for greater scale in Nigeria beyond Phase 3, while remaining nimble and iterative in its overall design and delivery.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Country Director and with global and local partnerships and gender teams to build partnerships that deliver the Girls Connect vision and strategy for Nigeria.
- Act as the key focal point for iSON in Nigeria, managing all aspects of the in-country relationship including project management, technical requirements and any troubleshooting issues.
- Support business development efforts for Girls Connect, providing proactive and reactive information about the programme to London teams and the Nigeria Country Director as they pursue potential investment leads.
- Work closely with relevant London teams and the Nigeria Country Director to generate and disseminate relevant marketing materials to potential business partners and to community audiences, ensuring that the brand’s visual identity is consistently applied.
- Manage content production processes.
- Lead the overall project management of Girls Connect, including developing tools to effectively track programme and financial progress and ensuring activities are met to timeframe.
- Lead in shaping a complex partnership strategy and approach to Girls Connect involving tech, corporate, telecoms, media, NGO partners and supply side services and act as the focal point for all relationships (except NGO partners and supply side services as led by Gender Team Lead).
Skills
- Ability to communicate and develop relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, from senior level down to grassroots
- Ability to remain flexible and find solutions to challenges
- Strong negotiation skills
- Positive, energetic, can-do attitude
- Ability to work collaboratively in multicultural teams with varying expertise, skills and backgrounds
- Commitment to realising the potential of girls and to the vision and values of Girl Effect
- Substantial programme management experience working in the technology, media or international development sector
- Substantial, proven experience developing and taking a digital technology, media and/or social innovation project to scale
- Experience working on projects or initiatives with a focus on gender issues, specifically adolescent girls, is highly desirable
- Proven experience working in a developing country context
- High attention to detail and ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines
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