Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) Specialist at Policy Innovation Centre (PIC)

The Policy Innovation Centre (PIC) is the first national institutionalised behavioural initiative in Africa supporting government and stakeholders to make behaviourally informed decisions and generate evidence for impact driven interventions in critical thematic areas (Governance, Health, Gender & Social Inclusion, Education, Digital & Financial Inclusion). The PIC is positioned to support the delivery of better policies and innovative solutions for high impact interventions across Africa. The PIC is an initiative of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), a leading think tank in Africa redefining evidence based policy advocacy.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) Specialist

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Overview

• The Policy Innovation Centre (PIC) seeks to hire a highly motivated Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) Specialist to support GESI integration into PIC’s policies and Programmes as well as coordinate best practices at all levels of implementation.

Job Responsibilities
Program Management:

• Provide strategic support to the PIC’s Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) Program;
• Work closely with program leads to support the effective delivery of GESI-focused activities across project cycles.
• Support GESI integration (principles, minimum standards, deliverables) into program activities and functional units including human resources, grants, operations and others.
• Work within the team to ensure that a sound gender analysis informs programme design and management, as well as identify strategic actions to be undertaken to improve the quality of programme implementation.
• Support the gender systems strengthening portfolio through research, information management systems and sector-specific capacity-building programs for public, private, and development practitioners to equip them with skills to engage on gender and inclusion issues using a gender transformative approach.
• Develop and maintain positive working relations with a wide network of partners, including government, development partners, parliament, media and NGOs.
• Assist in the definition of gender equality indicators and targets, as well as in the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative sex-disaggregated data; contribute to monitor and evaluating results against the indicators, to inform program and project improvements and strategic decisions.
• Deliver high-quality gender-related briefs and progress reports for a range of audiences as required.
• Support the Gender and Inclusion Summit activities, ensuring a successful delivery of the Pre-summit, Summit, and Post-summit.
• Assist in the development of GESI policies and guidelines.
• Undertake other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications/Job Requirements

• Master's Degree in Gender, Education, International Development, Public Health, or a related field.
• Minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in gender equity and GBV program management, coordination, policy, advocacy, technical assistance, and transformative approaches.
• Relevant experience supervising community-based social development and gender equality mainstreaming.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of local communities and customary rules.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Professional development opportunities.
• A supportive and collaborative working environment.

Application Closing Date
10th February, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Please send your CV of no more than 2 A4 pages (minimum font size 10) and an accompanying cover letter of no more than 2 pages (minimum font size 10) answering the following questions:
  • What is your motivation for wanting to join the PIC?
  • What are the top three key attributes you would bring to the PIC?
• Only qualified candidates will be contacted.
• PIC may be unable to notify every applicant of the result of their application.If you have therefore not been contacted within 8 weeks of the closing date, then you should assume that your application has been unsuccessful. However, we may retain your data and contact you for future openings that match your skills and competencies.
• Equal employment opportunity statement: PIC is an equal employment employer. We do not engage in practices that discriminate against any person employed or seeking employment based on race, colour, religion, gender, disability, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, genetic information, or any other status or characteristic protected under applicable laws.