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Are you a graduate or non-graduate seeking for a job opportunity in Nigeria? If yes, here’s an opportunity for you. The International Alert (Abuja) is currently recruiting to fill the available positions. Read more details below;

International Alert is one of the world’s leading peacebuilding  organisations, with over 30 years of experience supporting communities,  advising governments, organisations and companies on how to build  peace. Alert works with people in conflict-affected and threatened areas  to make a positive difference for peace; to improve the substance and  implementation of international policies relevant to peacebuilding; and to  strengthen the peacebuilding sector.

We are recruiting to fill the positions below:

Job Title: Consultant – Translation Services

Location: Abuja

Background

• The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325), unanimously adopted in October 2000, stressed the importance of the equal participation and full involvement of women in all efforts to maintain and promote peace and security.
• This resolution, with its four pillars of prevention, participation, protection and peacebuilding and recovery, has become the focal point for galvanizing worldwide efforts to deal with the many challenges that women face in situations of conflict. In the years since, eleven additional resolutions on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) have been adopted.
• That created a robust framework for implementing the WPS agenda and reinforced global commitments, treaties and conventions on women’s rights, including the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. To deliver these commitments at the national level, the United Nations has encouraged Member States to adopt National Action Plans (NAPs) on WPS to implement the resolutions and monitor the progress of the WPS agenda. As of September 2019, 82 countries have adopted NAPs-WPS.
• In order to contribute to an increase in women’s access to and participation in peace mediation and negotiation in Nigeria, women’s capacity in mediation and negotiation skills needs to be improved and extended to all areas of work, including security sector reform, financing and power-sharing. The impact of conflict on women and their role in peace processes need to be better exposed and reflected on; and the implementation of various policies related to Women, Peace and Security needs to be accelerated and monitored. A comprehensive response from all stakeholders is necessary to ensure gains made are not reversed.
• The Government of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs adopted its NAP in 2013 and launched a second edition in 2017 with the support of Nigerian Stability Reconciliation Programme (NSRP), the European Union and UN Women.
• The second edition addresses the key issues of violent extremism, post-conflict and reintegration challenges, crisis management and recovery as well as monitoring and evaluation. As at September 2019, 11 States have adopted a State Action Plan (SAP); while Adamawa, Gombe and Plateau States have begun adopting Local Action Plans (LAPs) at grassroots level. SAP provides a guide for state and non-state actors on gender mainstreaming and gender-sensitive approaches to peacebuilding and security processes. Bauchi State is at its final phase of developing its SAP.
• As a build-up to its support to the government of Nigeria to meet its commitments on UNSCR 1325, UN Women is implementing a 2-year programme on WPS, in partnership with International Alert, and with funding support from the Government of Norway. The initiative is designed to achieve the broad goal of gender-inclusive and sustainable peace in Nigeria through:
  • Increased women’s effective participation in peace and security processes, peace negotiations, conflict prevention and resolution.
  • Improved public perception on the role of women in peace and security, at all levels through opportunities for engagement and dialogue.
  • Against this background, International Alert seeks to engage the services of consultants to provide translation for the State Action Plan developed for Bauchi and Benue States respectively.

Scope of Work

• The Consultant(s) will independently undertake translation from English to Hausa, Sayyawa, Tiv and Idoma for the advancement of the Women, Peace and Security agenda.
• The Consultant(s) will translate a document of minimum 50 pages.
• Consultant(s) must ensure accuracy of the terms and terminologies used in the document.
• Consultant(s) must ensure that the translation is written with style, correct grammar and spelling.

Deliverables:

• The final document in simple and standard Hausa, Sayyawa, Tiv and/or Idoma should be in Microsoft Word, and mirror the format of the English document.

Requirements for Consultants

• 3-5 years of experience translating English into Hausa, Sayyawa, Tiv or Idoma
• Demonstrated ability to write in simple and standard Hausa, Sayyawa, Tiv or Idoma
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to use Microsoft Word
• Access to a laptop to accomplish the scope of work
• Availability during the consultancy period

Job Title: Consultant – Videographer

Location: Abuja

Background

• UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325), unanimously adopted in October 2000, stressed the importance of the equal participation and full involvement of women in all efforts to maintain and promote peace and security. In the years since, eleven additional resolutions on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) have been adopted.
• That created a robust framework for implementing the WPS agenda and reinforced global commitments, treaties and conventions on women’s rights, including the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
• To deliver these commitments at the national level, the United Nations has encouraged Member States to adopt National Action Plans on WPS (NAPs-WPS) to implement the resolutions and monitor the progress of the WPS agenda. As of September 2019, 82 countries have adopted NAPs-WPS.
• The Government of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs adopted its NAP-WPS in 2013 and launched a second edition in 2017 with the support of Nigerian Stability Reconciliation Programme (NSRP), the European Union and UN Women.
• The second edition addresses the key issues of violent extremism, post-conflict and reintegration challenges, crisis management and recovery as well as monitoring and evaluation. As at September 2019, 11 States have adopted a State Action Plan (SAP), and Plateau State has begun adopting Local Action Plans (LAPs) at grassroots level. Bauchi and Benue States are yet to develop and implement their own SAP. A SAP provides a guide for state and non-state actors on gender mainstreaming and gender-sensitive approaches to peacebuilding and security processes.
• As a build-up to its support to the government of Nigeria to meet its commitments on UNSCR 1325, UN Women is implementing a 2-year programme on WPS, in partnership with International Alert, and with funding support from the Government of Norway. The initiative is designed to achieve the broad goal of gender-inclusive and sustainable peace in Nigeria through:
  • Increased women’s effective participation in peace and security processes, peace negotiations, conflict prevention and resolution.
  • Improved public perception on the role of women in peace and security, at all levels through opportunities for engagement and dialogue.
  • Against this background, International Alert seeks to hire a consultant to support the State Teams in collecting and producing videos and photographs of high quality for webhosting, printing and as will be specified by International Alert.

Scope of Work:

• The consultant will collect evidenced based audio-visual and pictorial information for enriching an e-compendium where the impact of the WPS project will be documented and curated featuring “Community Women’s Peacebuilding Storytelling Initiatives”.
• The consultant will collect pictorial information for newsletters, case studies, human interest stories, etc; which will be printed and disseminated as IEC materials.
• The consultant will work with State teams to produce audio and video documentaries when required.
• The Consultant, working together with the Senior Programme Officer, Advocacy and Communications and State Managers to produce videos and photographs with high quality as would be specified by the website managers.

Deliverables:

• Within 2 days of content collection from the field, videographer will share electronic copies of pictorial content, and within 5 days, audio-visual content collected from the field, must be submitted to International Alert.
• One 2-day meeting with Alert’s project team for storyboarding in the week of December 10, 2018
• One one-hour online discussion with Alert’s Communications team to understand branding and compliance guidelines before the commencement of any task.
• Provide all the raw footage shot, including interviews and b-roll five days before the end of the consultancy

Budget:

• Alert will cover cost of travel and accommodation to any targeted local government area and local transport and accommodation within Maiduguri.
• The videographer-filmmaker must budget for all other costs for him/herself and his/her team, including flights to Maiduguri, meals and incidental expenses, equipment, translators, etc.

Copyright:

• International Alert will be the copyright owner of the videos filmed for International Alert. Under no circumstances may the contracted consultant sell the videos, use them for profitable purposes, or give permissions to other companies or organisations to use them without our consent.
• The films may be used by the videographer to showcase samples of their own work (as long as no profit is made from the act of showcasing), but International Alert must be credited in any such display. International Alert agrees to credit the videographer in the film.

Duration

• The duration of the consultancy will be for 5 months, from July 1st – November 30th 2020.

Requirements for Consultant

• Minimum of 5 years professional experience in developing information photo and videography.
• Demonstrated experience in collecting impact stories from the field.
• Demonstrated understanding of conflict, peace and security reporting in Bauchi and/or Benue States.
• Demonstrated expertise of communicating actions through photographs.

Job Title: Consultant Trainer, Women Mediators Network

Location: Abuja

Background

• UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325), unanimously adopted in October 2000, stressed the importance of the equal participation and full involvement of women in all efforts to maintain and promote peace and security. In the years since, eleven additional resolutions on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) have been adopted. That created a robust framework for implementing the WPS agenda and reinforced global commitments, treaties and conventions on women’s rights, including the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
• To deliver these commitments at the national level, the United Nations has encouraged Member States to adopt National Action Plans on WPS (NAPs-WPS) to implement the resolutions and monitor the progress of the WPS agenda. As of September 2019, 82 countries have adopted NAPs-WPS.
• However, the role of women and the gender dimensions of conflict remain marginal in conflict resolution; and post-conflict reconstruction processes, despite significant progress towards gender equality and protection of women’s rights at the policy level, largely lack implementation.
• The absence of and lack of women’s participation in formal mediation processes and at the peace table, is an important area of the 1325 agenda that remains poorly implemented, especially in Nigeria. In addition, women’s significant contribution to and strong role in Nigeria – whether national or sub-national mediation and conflict prevention initiatives, continue to be largely unrecognized and weakly supported. There is no doubt that women should take an integral part in decision-making during peace processes.
• In order to contribute to an increase in women’s access to and participation in peace mediation and negotiation in Nigeria, women’s capacity in mediation and negotiation skills needs to be improved and extended to all areas of work including security sector reform, financing and power-sharing.
• The impact of conflict on women and their role in peace processes need to be better exposed and reflected on; and the implementation of various policies related to Women, Peace and Security needs to be accelerated and monitored. A comprehensive response from all stakeholders is necessary to ensure gains made are not reversed.
• In recent past, UN Women have successfully initiated a network of Women Peace Mentors in Adamawa, Gombe and Plateau States, to complement the development and implementation of the WPS State Action Plans.
• These have resulted in the creation of Women Peace and Mediators’ Networks in these States, providing women at top and grassroots levels, the opportunity to increase capacity and strengthen local early-warning, mediation and security architectures to mitigate evolving conflicts in these States. There is, however, a need to replicate these networks across Nigeria, to increase the participation of women in peace processes in a sustainable manner.

As a build-up to its support to the government of Nigeria to meet its commitments on UNSCR 1325, UN Women is implementing a 2-year programme on WPS, in partnership with International Alert, and with funding support from the Government of Norway. The initiative is designed to achieve the broad goal of gender-inclusive and sustainable peace in Nigeria through:

• Increased women’s effective participation in peace and security processes, peace negotiations, conflict prevention and resolution.
• Improved public perception on the role of women in peace and security, at all levels through opportunities for engagement and dialogue.
• Against this background, International Alert seeks to hire a consultant to deliver capacity strengthening training to a select group of women who will subsequently join a mediators’ network.
• The consultant will be supported by the Department of Women and Gender at the Ministry of Women Affairs and International Alert’s project staff.

Scope of Work   

• The consultant will peruse and familiarize themselves with the training resource pack developed by Alert for the women mediators’ network in liaison with Alert’s Gender and Peacebuilding unit.
• produce a 5-day training design including the methodology and delivery process, based on a training resource pack developed by International Alert
• The training will cover both Bauchi and Benue States with a maximum of 40 participants.
• The trainer will provide guidance and supervision of participants during the training in the development of a community-based Early Warning Early Response system, to ensure they thoroughly understand it, and are able to align it with local context peculiar to their state and communities.
• Trainer will provide participants with thorough guide for stepping down training in their locales.

Deliverables:

• An outlined training plan and what the training will cover.
• Produce a report on the training.

Requirements for Consultant

• 5-8 years’ experience in relevant field in conducting training, humanitarian works in peace building, mediation, and other relevant fields.
• At least 5 years professional experience in training development
• Demonstrated experience in working with government partners and other stakeholders in public sector development programs especially around capacity development.
• Experience in training and research, policy development, management and program related.
• Excellent written and spoken English. Knowledge of local languages (Hausa and Sayyawa for Bauchi; Tiv and Idoma for Benue) will be an added advantage.
• Be able to travel to conduct training in Bauchi or Benue State.

Evaluation Criteria
Technical Proposal:

• A description of the methodology and work plan for performing the training.
• CV demonstrating experience in conducting training, humanitarian works in peace building, social works, and other relevant fields.
• Graduate level qualification in relevant or peacebuilding related field – or equivalent experience.

Financial Proposal:

• Consultants shall indicate the total price of the services including all applicable taxes.
• Consultants shall express the price of their services in Naira.

How To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Expression of Interest, indicating their experience, samples of past work done, the total price of the services including all applicable taxes to: kkenneth@international-alert.org and copy htakya@international-alert.org and jmdashe@international-alert.org

Note

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, you can assume your application has been unsuccessful. Please do not send follow-up emails or calls.
• International Alert is an equal opportunities employer. All applicants will be judged strictly based on merit

Application Deadline: 27th June, 2020.