NASSBER Project Lead at Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) – Apply Now

Key Skills:

• Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement and Management, Program Management, Communication, Research, Public Speaking, Data Management and Analysis, 

Education:

• Suitable candidate should possess a degree in law and a call to bar certificate 

Experience:

• At least 10 years of work in a top-tier law firm working with key sectors of the Nigerian Economy, Understanding of Nigeria’s regulatory landscape. In-depth and Knowledge of the Nigerian Legal System and Political-Economic dimensions. 

JOB DECSCRIPTION 

• Provide Strategic leadership towards the provision of technical support to the National Assembly 
• Implement the NASSBER secretariat operational framework which consist of: Legislative reform strategy, Programme management processes, day-to-day NASSBER activities, technical working groups, expert network, partnerships and continual review of NASSBER policy, procedures and processes.
• Implement legislative and regulatory reform initiatives that ultimately improve the ease of doing business and drive sustainable economic growth and development.
• Support with legislative components for grants on request
• Provide support for citizen engagement, strengthening communication for impactful reform, involving both internal and external stakeholders. 
• Prepare an internal and external stakeholder plan for effective stakeholder engagement 
• Coordinating the implementation of NASSBER programmes, projects and initiatives approved by the Governing Council.
• Facilitating external resources mobilization and fundraising for NASSBER.
• Developing and implementing budget and funding plan for NASSBER.
• Generating NASSBER corporate performance reports for board and executive decision making.
• Conducting legislative impact assessments on NASSBER bills before and after passage into law.
• Planning and implementing the legislative stakeholder engagement strategy for NASSBER.
• Serving as official liaison between the NESG community and the legislative arm of government.
• Establishing, maintaining and upgrading a system for comprehensive repository of all national legislations and legislative support instruments.
• Establishing, maintaining and upgrading a system for comprehensive database for all Senate and House of Representative Leadership of the whole and committees and heads of national legislative service (clerks and their principal officers).
• Designing and supporting presentations of legislative briefs at forums, mini-summits, Nigerian economic summit and pre-summit events.
• Working with the NESG grants and donor relations office to develop the legislative input component of grants proposals and fundraising briefs.
• Establish and maintaining a working relationship between the NASSBER expert network and the National Bar Association Section on Business law.
• Develop NASSBER legislative intelligence programme for ensuring the efficient and effective track, monitoring and reporting of all national legislative changes.
• Other duties that may be assigned.