Responsibilities

• Technical Support
• Act as a thought partner to the gender and inclusion officer, offering innovative/creative ideas or solutions to contribute to the overall success of projects.
• Support the Gender Officer in planning and implementing activities regarding gender equity.
• Conduct assessments of legal frameworks, policy documents, and initiatives to assess their impacts on women and other marginalized groups.
• Document and present high-quality field reports of unit activities and events to be reviewed and included in quarterly and annual reports.
• Support in managing CSOs/organizations that are being sub-granted.
• Co-facilitate quarterly partner review meetings.
• Develop draft proposals/concept notes for the gender officer to review.
• Assist the gender officer to keep track of synergy between the gender unit and other units.
• Provide advice on international best practices to reflect gender equity and inclusion principles and practices pertaining to electoral management.
• Provide oversight, monitoring, and evidencing of actions taken by a focal CSO to be managed by the assistant
• Support in ensuring that monthly reports from partners are submitted, collated, and filed in the shared drive.
• Responsible for updating the tracker on activities from CSOs – dates started, ended, reports submitted, pending, etc.
• Monitor YIAGA Africa sub-award. Attend sub-grant planning and working group meetings and report on their progress.
• Act as the primary contact for the YIAGA Africa CSO LGA elections led project.
• Perform other tasks assigned by the Supervisor, Deputy Country Director, and/or Country Director
• Monitoring and Evaluation Support
• Assist the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in developing and implementing M&E frameworks and tools.
• Support the collection, analysis, and reporting of data related to project activities and outcomes.
• Provide logistical and administrative support for M&E activities, including field visits and data collection exercises.
• Contribute to the development of M&E reports, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Assist in training project staff and partners on M&E procedures and best practices.
• Help ensure that M&E findings are integrated into project planning and decision-making processes.
• Operational Support
• Provide logistics support for meetings/workshops, including but not limited to, identifying workshop venues, developing and distributing invitations, taking attendance on time, and following up with financial disbursements from finance.
• Work with the gender officer to draft meeting/workshop invitations and program agendas.
• Prepare and distribute minutes of partner meetings and follow up to ensure action items have been taken forward by the people responsible.
• Ensure accurate and timely adherence to procurement processes.
• Provide necessary support to and supervise the work of YIAGA Africa for IFES Nigeria and serve as a firewall on the SEAT Project for the State Independent Electoral Commission support.