GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON) is a non-governmental and nonprofit organization that strife to make life of vulnerable women and children better through revitalized partnership. GPON provides life-skill education and psychosocial support to conflict-affected, WaSH community or camp services, Education in emergency services, Gender-based Violence mitigation services, Child protection service, Protection monitoring services, Nutrition and public health services.
The Opportunity
For the next 12 months, GPON with funding support from ECW-SCI, will be implementing an Education in Emergencies project in Zamfara and Kastina states, focusing on improving education in emergencies and protection outcomes for IDPs that involves timely and responsive protection monitoring, capacity building for government, education mainstreaming and stakeholders, awareness-raising on SGBV, case management, and child protection.
The intervention aims to guarantee that all individuals-men, women, boys, and girls, including internally displaced persons (IDPs) and persons with disabilities-receive life-saving integrated responses, ensuring their safety within their communities and timely support in case of harm. GPON will deliver comprehensive services encompassing education in emergencies, child protection, gender-based violence (GBV), and protection coordination, advocacy, and information for the affected populations under First Emergency Response to the Displaced Population in Zamfara, Sokoto, and Katsina States, Northwest Nigeria funded by Education Cannot Wait and jointly implemented under consortium led by SCI. Hence we seek individuals who shared the same vision with us to join our team-GPON employees are dedicated to making a lasting difference by restoring safety, dignity, and hope to millions. If you\'re passionate about creating solutions and driving change, join us in improving lives around the world for a brighter future.
Scope of work
Reporting to the Partnership Manager, this role will focus on developing and implementing GPON’s communications and advocacy strategy, ensuring consistent messaging to support high-quality external relations and to enable every staff member to be an effective ambassador for the mission. This role will hold responsibility for the development of content and materials suitable for dissemination to donors, stakeholders, potential partners, and sharing via GPON’s website and other channels, in the context of the broader strategy. The post-holder will also coordinate closely with the Programmes, MEAL, and Grants Units and the SMT in order to inform and advance advocacy messaging to donors.
Communications
- Develop an initial strategy for GPON’s NE/NW mission communications, including core and sector-specific messaging.
- In coordination with relevant programme staff, develop a content calendar for the year to highlight GPON successes on GPON’s social media
- Develop a draft budget outlining different scenario, and the associated costs, for potential iterations of the communications strategy (basic outputs, medium-level outputs, and a large-scale strategy).
- Develop factsheets (Hausa/English) suitable for external dissemination, and for sharing on GPON’s website, outlining the mission aims and sectors of intervention. Factsheets should outline intervention locations, intervention strategy, key activities, and ideally a human interest or success story.
- Develop a core body of communications materials (Hausa/English) suitable for use with donors and other external stakeholders to demonstrate the history and impact of GPONs mission in NE/NW.
- As required, develop situation reports (sitreps) to demonstrate the progress and impact of GPON’s emergency interventions in NW.
- Collect and develop human interest and success stories related to GPON’s interventions in Nigeria for use in donor reports, social media posts, and other communications materials.
- Identify appropriate stories, or, as relevant, GPON staff and/or beneficiary for inclusion in external communications by third parties (such as donors or journalists). As needed, accompany donor or press visits for this purpose.
- Develop a photo library for use in communications material and project teams.
- Develop project communications strategies, if required.
- Support the design and layout of other visual materials required within the mission, such as IEC or safeguarding materials.
- Build the capacity of the programme teams in topics related to effective communications, such as identifying appropriate success stories and informed consent for visual content collection.
Advocacy
- In coordination with the SMT, elaborate GPON’s top-level advocacy messaging and ensure that it is contextualized to NW/NE response
- Maintain a sound understanding of changes to the NE/NW, regional and global political context, and adjust messaging as necessary
- Maintain a sound understanding of changes to GPON’s operating environment, and adjust messaging as necessary
- Regularly gather information from programmes and MEAL teams to ensure that messaging is supported by relevant, recent evidence from GPON’s work
- Act in an advisory role to senior staff participating in external events, ensuring that they are well-briefed on GPON’s mission and relevant messages to be shared
- Draft or edit, as required, advocacy documents such as press releases, reports, position papers and contributions to external advocacy actions
- Identify strategic opportunities to advance GPON’s messaging, both on a regular and issue-specific basis
- Ensure strong coordination of advocacy messages throughout communications content
Key Working Relationships
Position Reports to: Partnership Manager
Standard of Professional Conduct:The GPON and the GPON workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the GPON Way – our Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service,
Accountability, and Equality.
Commitment to Gender, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: The GPON is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. The GPON expressly prohibits and will not tolerate discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or bullying of the GPON persons in any work setting. We aim to increase the representation of women, people that are from country and communities we serve, and people who identify as races and ethnicities that are under-represented in global power structures.Additional job responsibilities:
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within the reasonableness of their level of skills and experience
Behaviours (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling GPON values.
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same.
- Widely shares their personal vision for GPON, engages and motivates others.
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
- Values diversity sees it as a source of competitive strength.
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
- At least four (4) years of international work experience in relief or development programs, including playing a significant role in external communications production
- Excellent written and spoken English is required. Written and spoken Hausa would be an advantage.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing similar strategies within the NE/NW context is required
- Demonstrated understanding of the NE/NW operating context and its opportunities and challenges
- Familiarity with international standards for key program areas.
- Familiarity with the humanitarian and cluster system, including advocacy and accountability mechanisms
- Familiarity with graphic design software such as InDesign will be an advantage
- Ability to support in development of visual (photo/video) content will be an advantage
LEVEL OF CONTACT WITH CHILDREN
Low contact: High
Salary and conditions: NGN 700,000 – NGN1,000,000. The income will be subject to statutory deductions as per applicable Nigerian laws. The employee is responsible for the tax returns.
The position is for Nigerian nationals only and qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply.
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