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ActionAid Nigeria, an Associate of ActionAid International, is the most visible rights-based organisation
committed to poverty eradication in Nigeria. The current annual budget of the organisation is close to £5 million. Our funding support comes from DFID, EU, UNDP, UNIFEM, Comic Relief, and Mc Arthur Foundation, among others, and our work covers Education, Health/HIV/AIDS, Human Security in Conflict and Emergencies, Just and Democratic Governance and Women’s Rights. Deploying a range of participatory tools to promote community participation that ensure sustainability of interventions that are transforming remote rural and excluded urban communities, it supports a project for Partnerships Against Poverty (PAP). In 2006, the country programme directly affected the lives of 173,991 males and 141,106 females in 586 communities in Nigeria. Nigeria currently has 89 staff working in 123 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in 34 states out of the 37 states of the federation. The head office of ActionAid is in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. ActionAid’s initiatives within its Human Security in Conflict programme, including the facilitation of a dialogue and the articulation of a people’s charter, have positioned the organisation as a committed peace builder in the volatile region.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position:         Policy/Advocacy/Gender Specialist
       
Responsible to:    Policy & Advocacy Specialist HQ

Location:    States

Grade:            

Line Management:    
This position requires multiple reporting lines. While the successful candidate reports to the State Programme Manager on the day to day basis, S/he also has technical line of reporting to the ActionAid Project Lead on ENR, Policy and Advocacy Director and Gender Specialist at the ENR HQ


Overall purpose
The Policy, Advocacy and Gender Technical Advisors will be responsible for the planning, management of strategic and operational prevention-focused policy, advocacy and research issues on HIV/AIDS and gender at the state level.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Specific Responsibilities
•    Developing strategies and programmes for HIV/AIDS prevention gender policy, advocacy and research activities;
•    Coordinating the programme activities on HIV/AIDS and gender advocacy with bias on prevention;
•    Collaborating with relevant national networks on HIV/AIDS and gender;
•    Ensuring dissemination of policy research to relevant organisations;
•    Enduring the domestication and implementation of National Plan on Prevention at the state level.
•    Coordinating and managing the policy and advocacy work on HIV/AIDS and gender at the state level;
•    Supporting the capacity development of partnering organizations on HIV/AIDS and gender campaigns, advocacy and policy influencing;
•    Developing strategies for mainstreaming gender across the project activities;
•    Support SACA Policy Advocacy Technical working group and build their capacity on Advocacy engagement
•    Support the Gender Working Group of SACA and build their capacity on Gender mainstreaming
•    Ensure gender is mainstreamed in all the state response and that the rights of women and girl child are protected
•    Support SACA to develop annual Advocacy Plan
•    Coordinating the programme activities on gender and women’s rights directed at
reforms and policies impacting on poverty; and,
•    Promoting a rights based approach in advocating for the rights of women in the face of HIV/AIDS.

Reporting and Accountability
•    Submit to line manager timely informative reports, indicating performance in processes planned for the month and progress towards outputs and objectives of the ENR programme.
•    Submit situational and any other non-routine reports when necessary or when asked to.
•    Participate in programmed meetings of the AAN ENR Team, sharing experiences from the field, bringing up issues of general programme nature for collective decision making.
•    Identify and recommend opportunities for collaboration and other forms of engagement by AAN outside the ambit of ENR.
Others
•    Represent AAN including the R2H Theme and ensure the maintenance of optimum relations at all levels with relevant agencies and Civil Society Organisations in the state.
•    Actively take part in the overall policy, programme, procedure and strategy development of AAN in general.
•    Assume any other responsibilities relevant to the position as agreed with the R2H Theme Leader or assigned by the Programme Coordinator or Country Director.

Key Relationships

Internal Relationships:    Right to Health (R2H) Theme, HR/OD team & AAN team.   

External Relationships:     CSOs, relevant government agencies and partners, especially SACA
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