Head of Programme Nigeria

The Head of Programme position provides strategic leadership and oversight for the Country Office’s programme portfolio in Nigeria, ensuring effective design, implementation, monitoring, and alignment with NRC's mission and donor requirements. The role drives programme quality, impact, accountability, and growth while ensuring efficient resource use and compliance with policies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the Country Office fundraising strategy, including mapping donor policy and priorities aligned with NRC’s goals.
• Lead the development and implementation of NRC’s partnership strategy in Nigeria, ensuring effective collaboration and strengthening partner capacity.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of country strategy.
• Ensure coherence and quality of core competency programmatic input to all relevant processes and documents.
• Strengthen collaboration with other actors through networks, cooperation and partnerships.
• Ensure sound and timely grants management through NRC’s Project Cycle Management framework and donor requirements.
• Promote synergy between programme and support units.
• Act as Country Director when delegated.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (programme management, business or a social science related). An advanced academic qualification will be an added advantage.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience from a senior management position in a humanitarian/recovery context with responsibility for programme and/or project management.
• Experience in NRC Core Competency programming is an asset.
• Experience of working on, coordinating or leading consortia or other forms of partnership implementation.
• Experience in MEAL systems and approaches, and accountability mechanisms and frameworks.
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal and excellent drafting skills.
• Knowledge of the Central and West Africa context and crisis.
• Experience with start-up, scale-up projects, emergency and early recovery contexts.
• Experience of mainstreaming evidence-based approaches to programme quality throughout the project cycle.
• Experience of working in integrated programmes.
• Knowledge of donor landscape, priorities and conditions.
• Effective team building, cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution skills.
• Experience in the design and delivery of team capacity strengthening, including remote coaching, mentoring and training.

Skills

• Programme Management
• Project Management
• Humanitarian Programming
• Consortium Management
• Partnership Implementation
• MEAL System Development
• Accountability Frameworks
• Leadership Skills
• English Drafting
• Contextual Knowledge Central West Africa
• Emergency Response
• Early Recovery Programming
• Evidence Based Programming
• Integrated Programmes
• Donor Relations
• Team Capacity Strengthening
• Remote Coaching
• Mentorship
• Training Delivery

Languages

English