Vacancies: Coordinator (Public Policy & Strategy), Senior Research Officer
OTSD is an office recently developed in partnership with one of the leading development partners in the country with the aim of re-shaping how government functions, re-engineering its processes and systems in order to ensure implementation of government’s developmental programmes in a more effective and efficient manner.
OTSD focuses on quick-win actions that ensure the delivery of the agenda of the administration, and longer term visioning and strategic thinking of various development alternatives that guarantee sustainable and accelerated improvement in the lives of the people. The Office has four key areas of focus: innovation, change management, service delivery, and tracking implementation of government’s agenda across the MDAs. OTSD is based in the South-western region of the country.
OTSD seeks to employ the right candidates to fill in the following vacant positions for a 2-year renewable contract:
Position: Coordinator (Public Policy & Strategy)
Person Specification
- Masters in relevant field (PhD an advantage)
- Minimum 10 years relevant working experience as a policy analyst and strategist at a senior level
- Familiar with various policy and strategy development techniques
- Analytical and creative thinker
Roles and Responsibilities
- Support the Head of Office’s mandate to ensure the delivery of the Government’s Agenda by the MDAs
- Create strategic plans and communicate them through the Head of the Office to a wide variety of constituency groups
- Work within and across political and administrative classes to generate commitment to new ideas from the OTSD and how they might be applied in the State
- Work collaboratively with leading thinkers within the state, Nigeria and more widely particularly on development and transformation Stimulate new ideas in the state and promote creativity and innovation
- Conduct/commission research into trend, initiatives and strategy that will enhance the development of the state and its citizens Produce research and other reports for wide dissemination Work closely with the Civil Service Transformation Strategy Steering Committee to ensure progress and challenges are monitored and reported Set the direction for, and manage a team Research methodologies to design policies that can be implemented
- Create and deploy ‘think tanks’ for strategic topics, sectors and themes as needed Design and deploy instruments to measure impact of the Government’s developmental agenda
- Apply knowledge of trends in development in public service thinking to the transformation of the State
- Lead and manage a team of other technical staff.
Position: Senior Research Officer
Person Specification
- Masters degree/PhD in any of Sociology / Economics / Operational Research / Statistics
- Over 10 years professional experience as a Social Researcher
- Conversant with current social research methods Proficient in social research soft wares
- Strong abilities to carry out desk-based researches
- Strong abilities to carry out on-line researches
Roles & Responsibilities
- Provide quality and timely research inputs for analysis require to review and evaluate existing and new government polices
- Draft research specifications for researches of interest to OTSD
- Ensuring quality control of researches
- Explaining complex ideas and findings in a way that can be easily understood
- Commissioning and project -managing research projects
- Develop and build dose partnership with external research contractors, other government agencies and donor agency specifically for research purposes
- Comment on draft research instruments
- Develop terms of reference for researches to be implemented by OTSD
- Provide direction and leadership to other research staff
- Any other research related assignment that may be assigned by the Head of Office.
Method of Application
In addition to the above, all intending applicants are expected to be very proficient in the use of computers; have good communication skills (written and oral); have good interpersonal skills; be team players; ability to work under pressure; and can work on own initiative with minima! supervision. All application Setters and CVs should be mailed to: OTSD.NG@GMAIL.COM . Application letters must not exceed 2 pages (A4). Any application letter exceeding 2 pages would automatically be disqualified. Deadline for receipt of applications is 4pm, 22nd December 2011. Any application received after the deadline would not be considered. Successful applicants would be contacted by the 31st of December 2011. An excellent competitive salary commensurate to experience and skilIs, and benefits package are available to the right candidates.
