Vacancy For Researchers at HIPCITY Hub

HIPCITY Hub - A registered Nigeria NGO (non-profit) organisation working on social justice and humanitarian response in both the southern and northern region of Nigeria. Applications are hereby invited for the vacant position below:     Job Title:Researchers (SLUM DWELLERS) Location: Abuja Job Summary: A CSO-Social Enterprise that supports and focuses on youth empowerment and community rights) proposes to undertake a research work on urban slums in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja to explore possible sustainable clean businesses and skills needed in rural-ghetto areas (popularly described as indigenous urban slums) so as to guide the locals (mostly women and restless youth) into arriving at identified problems, common challenges, as well as new opportunities. The end would be the creation of a new values and a systematic and strategic manner to amplify local voices, create platform, network for skill acquisition for the youths and women via pressing new demand to the government and constituency representatives ahead of the 2019 election; unlike old norms where restless ghetto youths and women sell their votes and become social vices for political elites. Job Approach: The project will adopt a participatory but disguised observation methods:

• move and live in the ghetto/slum area for 1/2 month, have flatmates/observers/field officers who would live in the area as a local; interact (guided by a daily task routine) with targeted persons, age grades, business, chieftains and social groups. this would enable the observers have first-hand experience of what the locals experience, understand the social, environmental, political and cultural trends; but are however conditioned to think solution while un-interrupting existing experiences at the first instance.