**Contingent upon Donor Funding**
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Position Status: Full-time, Exempt or Non-exempt, Regular
Risk Level: X Level 3 ☐Level 2 ☐Level 1
(Level 3: Frequent contact with participants, direct contact with children, access to sensitive data, and/or high level of accountability.
Level 2: Some contact with participants; unplanned non-direct contact with children.
Level 1: Likely to have no contact with participants or sensitive data)
About Prosper Global
Barely enough is not enough for anyone. Prosper Global is a humanitarian organization working alongside communities facing conflict, climate change, and economic hardship to meet urgent needs and create the conditions for lasting progress. Today's challenges demand new solutions, so we pair local knowledge with global resources to help communities build what's needed, test what's possible, and scale what's proven so that people everywhere can pursue a full life on their own terms. In 2026, we changed our name from Mercy Corps to Prosper Global, to reflect our belief that when every community can prosper, all of humanity moves forward.
The Program / Department / Team
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, and its influence spreads across the continent. Yet, inequality and insecurity have consistently undermined Nigeria's development. Prosper GlobalNigeria was established in 2012 to respond to these challenges. The Nigeria team is headquartered in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and has programs across 16 states. Prosper Global works with communities to build economic opportunities, enhance water security, drive peace and good governance, and ensure food security. Our activities aim to build resilience through an integrated approach, helping communities and the most marginalized within them cope, adapt, and thrive in the context of numerous shocks and stresses. With a strong and growing team, Prosper Global works to achieve the vision of a Nigeria in which all people are empowered, engaged, resilient, and secure.
The Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Portfolio is a three-year Mastercard Foundation investment designed to enable 200,000 young Nigerians, particularly young women, to access and sustain Dignified and Fulfilling Work through climate-smart and nutrition-sensitive agrifood systems. The CSA Portfolio is of five complementary programs that respond to a structural disconnect between the growth potential of Nigeria's agrifood economy and its ability to generate D&F Work at scale. Each program contributes through its geographies, value chain while agrifood markets continue to grow, many enterprises, employers, financial institutions and market actors remain constrained in their ability to expand, invest and create jobs, while young women, youth, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and forcibly displaced persons (FDPs) face barriers that limit their participation in emerging opportunities. The Portfolio addresses both challenges simultaneously by strengthening the systems that generate work opportunities while helping marginalized populations access and sustain them. Prosper Global is seeking an experienced and dynamic GESI Director to drive forward the anticipated USD 45 million Mastercard Foundation-funded Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) investment program for the next three years. The Offer is contingent on securing donor funding and approval of the candidate.
The Position
The Gender, Equity and Social Inclusion Director will oversee the work of addressing gender and other social dimensions of food security and community resilience across all Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) investment program activities. S/he will be responsible for leading the implementation of gender integration strategies aimed at ensuring that program activities result in positive outcomes for male and female participants of different age groups. S/he will have overall responsibility for building team members’ and partners’ capacity to integrate a GESI perspective into activities, and raising awareness of the importance of GESI integration. The GESI Director will work closely with other team members to ensure the effective and timely execution of activities related to gender and age-based access to opportunities. During the first year of the program, in alignment with Prosper Global's best practices and Master card Foundation requirements, the GESI Director will conduct a gender analysis to inform and guide program implementation and to ensure that men, women, girls and boys have equitable opportunities to engage in and benefit from program activities. S/he will promote innovative initiatives for inclusiveness in conformity with the donor and Prosper Global's gender policy.
Essential Job Responsibilities
STRATEGY & PLANNING
- Provide strategic leadership and vision for the integration of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), youth empowerment, and safeguarding across the Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) portfolio.
- Lead the development and implementation of the portfolio-wide GESI and Safeguarding Strategy, ensuring alignment with Mastercard Foundation priorities, Prosper Global standards, and national frameworks.
- Ensure gender-transformative, youth-centered, disability-inclusive, and safeguarding approaches are embedded throughout the program lifecycle, from design and partner onboarding through implementation, adaptation, learning, and closeout.
- Serve as the principal advisor to portfolio leadership and Portfolio partners on GESI, youth inclusion, protection, and safeguarding priorities, risks, and opportunities.
- Drive the development of strategies that increase equitable access to dignified and fulfilling work opportunities for young women, young men, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized groups.
- Provide technical leadership to ensure safeguarding considerations are incorporated into program design, implementation plans, partnership agreements, participant engagement approaches, and monitoring systems.
- Lead the identification, assessment, and mitigation of gender, inclusion, protection, and safeguarding risks across portfolio activities and partnerships.
- Establish portfolio-wide standards, tools, indicators, and accountability mechanisms to measure and track GESI, youth empowerment, and safeguarding outcomes.
- Collaborate with technical leads and Portfolio partners to ensure GESI, youth, and safeguarding commitments are reflected in annual work plans, budgets, learning agendas, and performance targets.
- Promote evidence-based decision-making by leveraging data, research, participant feedback, and learning to continuously strengthen inclusive and safeguarding-centered programming.
- Champion a culture of inclusion, safeguarding, accountability, and participant-centered programming across all Portfolio partners and stakeholders.
- Represent the portfolio externally on GESI, youth empowerment, and safeguarding matters with Mastercard Foundation, government institutions, private sector actors, technical working groups, and other key stakeholders.
- Ensure that safeguarding, inclusion, and participant well-being remain central to portfolio strategy and decision-making, enabling young people to safely access, retain, and thrive in dignified and fulfilling work opportunities.
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
- Develop targeted GESI capacity building interventions for program staff.
- Support program team in the delivery of training and capacity building on key gender and social inclusion topics to project participants.
- Conduct periodic monitoring of field activities; ensure quality delivery of GESI interventions and coach/mentor staff technically on this.
- Document processes and achievements to ensure impact and best practices are captured and disseminated. This will include the continual re-evaluation of program activities and information, with resulting activity adjustments in keeping with new insights.
REPRESENTATION
- Develop relationships and linkages with organizations implementing other donor-funded programs focused on GESI in Nigeria.
- Conduct regular community consultations to ensure programming remains GESI sensitive and on track.
- Collect and share learnings and best practices from this program both internally and externally.
- Identify, build and manage collaborative partnerships with portfolio partners, donors, local governments and other stakeholders.
- Communicate effectively to ensure overall program targets and donor obligations are met.
SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT
- Collaborate with country leadership to support preparedness and response to major disruptive events.
- Work closely with the country team’s security focal point to develop and maintain systems that promote the safety and security of all team members.
- Ensure that activities are designed and implemented with a clear analysis and understanding of security.
Safeguarding Responsibilities
- Actively learns about safeguarding and integrates it into their work, including safeguarding risks and mitigations related to their area of work.
- Practices the values of Prosper Global including respecting the dignity and well-being of participants and fellow team members.
- Encourages openness and communication in their team; encourages team members to submit reports if they have any concerns using reporting mechanisms e.g., Integrity Hotline and other options.
Supervisory Responsibility
- Supervise gender, and Safeguarding team for Prosper Global and from the Youth and Women Led organizations
Accountability
Reports Directly To: CSA Chief of Party (CoP)
Works Directly With: Portfolio team members, Climate Director, MSD Director, MEL Director, Finance Director and research teams, partner organizations, HQ Regional Program Team, HQ Technical Support Unit