Learning and Scaling Lead, Nigeria

The Learning and Scaling Lead will support the Country Lead to develop and implement a learning, scaling, and evidence synthesis agenda that translates programme evidence into operational insights and actionable policy recommendations. The role involves designing learning agendas, generating evidence, facilitating knowledge exchange, supporting scale-up and sustainability, and building capacity among government counterparts.

Responsibilities

• Design a Learning, Scaling and Evidence Synthesis Agenda including defining learning priorities, research questions, decision cycles and validation mechanisms.
• Develop tools and systems to track progress against learning and scaling milestones.
• Recommend and help set-up tools to standardize reporting and data collection for real-time evidence sharing across program partners.
• Design and support the programme’s knowledge management architecture to ensure systematic capture, storage, and accessibility of learning and evidence.
• Collect data and generate evidence on what works throughout program delivery and surface lessons learned.
• Facilitate cross-partner knowledge exchange by convening peer-learning workshops and documenting emerging insights, challenges and adaptive practices.
• Coordinate drafting reports consolidating cross-partner evidence into actionable recommendations for strategic decision-making and government planning.
• Lead dissemination of key evidence and learnings through sector-wide dialogues and identify opportunities for coordination across related initiatives.
• Support collection and analysis of data on how outcomes-based contracts influence organizational practices and system collaboration.
• Lead development and quality assurance of knowledge products including learning briefs, policy notes, implementation insights, case studies, slide decks, donor-ready summaries, and sector-facing publications.
• Contribute to draft policy briefs, learning notes, and strategic recommendations.
• Support interpretation and application of evidence in planning and decision-making processes.
• Contribute evidence inputs to national policy discussions and technical working groups.
• Support dissemination of findings through national and regional platforms.
• Build capacity of government counterparts on outcomes-based financing and use of data and evidence in routine decision-making.
• Design and facilitate learning forums and peer-learning exchanges.
• Convene stakeholders from government, civil society, donors, research institutions, and implementing partners.
• Capture and disseminate lessons learned across districts and implementation sites.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in International Development, Public Policy, Education, Economics, Political Science, or similar.
• Master’s degree in International Development, Public Policy, Education, or similar is an asset and may be accepted in lieu of part of the experience.
• Minimum of 7 years experience in education, skills-for-employment, development and/or policy programs.
• Experience working with national and/or sub-national governments, preferably within the education, skills-for-employment or broader development sectors.
• Experience in education and/or skills-for-employment policy and systems strengthening, including pathways for program scale-up and sustainability, or other closely related experience.
• Experience with innovative financing mechanisms (particularly outcomes funds), performance management frameworks or large donor-funded programs is an asset.
• Experience should ideally include evidence generation, policy analysis, system reform or scaling innovative practices.
• Proven track record of producing high-quality analytical reports, policy briefs and evidence-based recommendations.
• Fluent in English.

Skills

• Education Policy
• Skills-for-Employment Programs
• International Development
• Policy Analysis
• Programme Scale-Up
• Systems Strengthening
• Innovative Finance Mechanisms
• Outcomes Funds
• Performance Management Frameworks
• Donor-Funded Programs
• Evidence Generation
• Analytical Report Production
• Policy Brief Writing
• Knowledge Exchange Facilitation
• Capacity Building
• Learning Agenda Development
• Evidence Synthesis

Languages

English