ActionAid Denmark Jobs 2017

ActionAid Denmark seeks an experienced regional Pan-African Governance Advisor, who would be an important member of the core project management team for the EC funded Pan-African project “Mobilizing Civil Society Support for Implementation of the African Governance Architecture”. The project is led by AADK and implemented in eight ActionAid countries by ActionAid country offices and with regional partners from the CSO media fraternity.

Job Description

Job Title: Pan-African Governance Advisor for EC PANAF project

The project is aiming to develop a Citizen’s Report methodology bringing together results from community scorecards; citizen perception data (Afrobarometer); and legal analysis into national and regional overviews on implementation. The Advisor would play a key role in advising on development and implementation of this methodology as well as subsequent advocacy at national, regional and continental levels. A significant focus is to train and build capacity of the ActionAid national offices and partners within this methodology as well as support advocacy.

Specific objectives

Develop tools and guidelines that allow the AA offices to be confident in implementing the Citizen Report methodology at national level
Providing coaching and capacity building to ensure that partners feel confident and are independently engaging effectively in advocacy activities at national, regional and international levels.
Mentor partners and support development of training curricula that they can utilise to deliver training to other CSOs on advocacy to implement the ACDEG (the African Charter on Democracy, Elections & Governance).
Develop guidelines to support regional implementation partners to successfully advocate for the implementation of the ACDEG and more effectively buildg CSO alliances at regional level for advocacy on ACDEG especially with governance, youth and women’s rights oriented CSOs

Key result areas

The Advisor’s support will help to ensure:
A methodology guide has been developed for producing national Citizen’s Reports on implementation of the ACDEG and revised to reflect lessons-learned
Coaching is provided to AA offices on implementation of Citizen’s Report methodology, especially legal analysis and Community Scorecard approaches
Training curriculum has been developed for ½ day, 1 day, and 2 day versions of introduction to advocacy for implementation of the ACDEG, and programme staff in all 8 AA offices familiarized with training contextualization and delivery
All partners have confidently developed and implemented their own campaign and advocacy strategy and are engaged in concrete advocacy activities.
At least 4 tangible and realistic advocacy initiatives have been carried out in cooperation between two or more partners by December 2018
Regional implementing partners have contextualized training courses for CSOs on ACDEG
Regional implementing partners have provided regional reports and briefing materials on implementation of ACDEG
AU level advocacy events and knowledge products have been informed by Technical briefing on evidence and issues regarding ACDEG implementation
Lesson learned and best practices related to the implementation of the AGA and Citizen Report methodology have been developed and distributed
Tangible advocacy strategies and linkages between local, national and international levels have been implemented

Required qualifications

At least 5 years of experience working on governance programming and/or advocacy in Africa
Extensive field experience in capacity building and an in-depth knowledge of governance trends and preferable in the areas of electoral accountability, civil political rights in a cross section of African countries
Application of human rights based approach to development and theoretical knowledge in the design, management and support of complex, multi-disciplinary capacity building programmes involving various stakeholders
Demonstrated abilities and contributions to participatory monitoring tools, policy guideline formulation, coalition building, team building and advocacy, preferably in the NGO sector
Demonstrated abilities and contributions to policy and guideline formulation, organizational capacity development and advisory support, preferably in an INGO sector
Experience in working with partners in different intervention levels and a partnership approach

Personal qualifications

Strong negotiation and advocacy skills
Cultural sensitivity
Patient, flexible and approachable
Resistance to adversity
Diplomacy and respect
Track record of developing strong working relationships across organizational boundaries with a wide variety of CSO actors and government representatives
Ability to work independently and adapt to easily to different situations
Excellent skills at working in distributed international teams, including communicating appropriately combining face to face, videoconferencing, emails, social media effectively
Pro-activeness.
Strong sense of solidarity and commitment to development issues.
Ability to work quickly and effectively under pressure.

Application procedure and deadline
Forward a letter of motivation and an updated CV (totalling no more than 4 pages) by email to [email protected] with a subject line Ref: Pan-African Governance Advisor. The application package should not exceed 2 MBs.

Deadline for application submission is: December 12th, 2017
Contract start is subject to approval of work and residence permit, which can be a lengthy process. Therefore, the expected start date is 1st February 2018. The assignment is for 24 months, with the possibility for renewal.

Estimated recruitment process
13th December: Shortlisted candidates are contacted
15th December: Skype interviews with shortlisted candidates
18th December: Second round Skype interviews with two final candidates

Due to the large number of applications received for these positions, it is not possible to provide feedback for all applications. Therefore, only shortlisted candidates will be notified at each stage of the recruitment process. If you have not received any reply to your application by 23rd December, then you should consider yourself unsuccessful for this position.