Mercy Corps Recruitment for Translator

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Mercy Corps is the lead implementing partner for the Empowering Nigerian Girls in New Enterprises (ENGINE) program to reduce financial and education barriers for marginalized Nigerian adolescent girls ages 15 to 19. ENGINE will increase girls’ access to (1) financial education and leadership/transferable skills; (2) peer-to-peer networks and mentors; and (3) direct assets (materials and savings). ENGINE will integrate adolescent girls into value chains as well as conduct other market-driven employment opportunities. ENGINE will also work with girls in formal and informal education to increase their learning opportunities and outcomes to prepare them for future economic activities. ENGINE will be implemented in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lagos, and Kano and Kaduna States. Mercy Corps serves as the managing partner to a large international company. This consultancy focuses on developing curriculum that sits alongside our existing academic and financial curriculum. The content should focus on leadership, transferable skills including entrepreneurship skills and topics such as gender-based violence.

Job Title: Hausa and Yoruba Translators for the Educating Nigerian Girls in New Enterprises (ENGINE) program –

Multiple vacancies

Job Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Purpose / Project Description:
Mercy Corps understands that for marginalised girls to achieve economic success they require skills and knowledge, including financial and business training, followed by a clear path to gain, keep hold of, and make productive use of economic assets which will have a multiplier effect for economic growth, poverty reduction and a girl’s improved position within her family. ENGINE activities support three primary objectives:

Ensure marginalised in-school girls improve their learning outcomes in a supportive environment by participating in weekly Safe Space activities over a nine-month period where they receive academic tutoring as well as employment readiness skills including financial education and leadership skills.
Increase girls’ economic assets and their influence on household decision making through access to education, increased learning, and direct linkages to economic activities. ENGINE will enrol out-of-school marginalised girls into six-month education cycles to increase their business, leadership and entrepreneurship skills.
Work with gatekeepers to enable girls’ access to and involvement in learning and economic opportunities. These interventions are critical to ensure girls can engage, enrol, and stay in education and actively participate in income-generating activities to increase her standing in the household. Gatekeepers can include husbands, mothers, fathers, mothers-in-law, male relatives as well as faith and traditional leaders.

Mercy Corps will utilize a Safe Space model under ENGINE for both in school and out of school girls.

For in-school girls, Safe Spaces will be linked to Ministry of Education (MoE) junior and senior secondary schools and Islamiyya school curricula. Space Spaces will reinforce academic learning related to the MoE, teach financial education, and build leadership and transferable skills. They will provide a safe, supportive and discrimination-free learning environment. Safe Spaces will meet on average twice per week for approximately 2 hour sessions. Topics will be weighted with academic tutoring comprising 50% of each session followed by financial education (25%), and leadership and transferable skills (25%). Academic tutoring will be focused on key subjects where girls have the most difficulty with a concentration on literacy and numeracy skills. The financial education curriculum will be introduced to the concepts of assets, capital formation and wealth creation, and self-employment and wage employment. The transferable skills curriculum will support girls’ abilities to positively navigate life’s social, political, economic, and personal transitions.

Out of school girls will participate in Safe Spaces with the venues selectedby the girls and the community members. Out of school girls will complete a six-month course that includes at least twice weekly sessions of approximately 4 to 6 hours total per week. Topics will be weighted based on the capacity of the girls as well as literacy and numeracy levels with business and entrepreneurial skills and financial education comprising 75% of the time followed by leadership and transferable skills 1 (25%).

Translators Objectives:
The consultants will translate and back-translate materials into Hausa and/or Yoruba (or from Hausa/Yoruba into English).

The Consultants will work closely with: ENGINE Project Manager and external monitoring and evaluation partner

Essential Qualifications:

Strong written and oral communication skills in English
Strong written and oral communication skills in Hausa or Yoruba
Previous experience translating material for non-governmental organizations—under tight timeframes

Mode of Application
Please submit a cover letter highlighting your relevant experience, as well as a CV, to: mercycorpsng@gmail.com with mail subject ENGINE TRANSLATOR . All applicants should include a work sample of English to Hausa or Yoruba (as the case may be), indicating the original document and translated document. All submissions should include a daily rate. Closing Shortlisting will start immediately (deadline may be revised without notice)

Shortlisted candidates may be required to take a translation test under timed conditions.

Application Deadline: 24th December, 2013

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