International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and Nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in under-served communities worldwide.
Job Id: 5569
Location: Kaduna
Overall Objective
- Determine single coverage of malnutrition treatment services, identification of barriers to service access and uptake in the 44 LGAs in Kano, 23 in Kaduna and 20 in Bauchi States of Nigeria.
Specific Objectives
- Enhance competencies of IMC technical staff and SMOH representatives in SQUEAC methodology.
- Assess single coverage in the target LGAs of Kano, Kaduna and Bauchi States.
- Identify factors affecting the uptake of IMAM services in target LGAs of Kano, Kaduna and Bauchi States.
- Develop in collaboration with IMC specific recommendations to improve acceptance and coverage of IMAM programme.
Duties and Responsibilities of the Consultant
To achieve the above-mentioned objectives, the consultant will undertake the following:
- Train IMC staff and SMOH representatives to equip them with knowledge and skills to undertake a SQUEAC coverage survey independently.
- Lead a full coverage survey (survey planning, data collection, analysis and reporting) in all the targeted areas .
- Conduct SQUEAC survey from its inception to finalization. Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Develop and design SQUEAC survey protocol, including sample size estimation, population size, and clustering of the villages etc., and tools using the SQUEAC technical reference documents.
- Build the capacity on SQUEAC of IMC nutrition team and SMOH representatives.
- Train the SQUEAC data collection teams (including pre-testing questionnaire).
- Assume overall responsibility for implementation of the SQUEAC, including daily supervision of SQUEAC teams and data quality assurance.
- Supervise data entry by experienced data entry personnel and ensure quality.
- Be responsible for data cleaning and analysis using Softwares like XMind, BayesSQUEAC, Epi Info, SPSS.
- Present preliminary findings in a validation workshop if required.
- Prepare a draft SQUEAC report for review by IMC.
- Prepare a final report including background, methodology, results, limitations, conclusions, recommendations
- Ensure that the assessment is comprehensive and includes all relevant indicators.
- Adhere to all national guidelines and standards, wherever they are available.
Qualification /experience required for the assignment
- A health professional or nutritionist with MPH or MSc or advanced professional Degree.
- Experience in epidemiology, surveys using SQUEAC methodology.
- Significant experience, at least five years, in community-based studies including conduct of surveys, SQUEAC and other coverage assessments.
- At least 2-year experience with the implementation of IMAM programs.
- Excellent analytical and statistical skills.
- Strong communication skills, with excellent written and spoken English.
- Excellent computing and analytical skills including at least in one of the following: Xmind, Bayes SQUEAC, EPI INFO, SPSS, ENA Software.
- Ability to work on own initiative and to meet deadlines.
- Excellent reporting and data consolidation skills.
- Proven competency and experience in monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment (with experience in the sectors of public health and nutrition).
- Proven experience in participatory research methods.
- Experience of working with pastoral community and in Northern Nigeria is desirable.
General Conditions of work of the consultancy:
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- The consultant (s) will be based in Kano, Kaduna and Bauchi States, and will spend most of the duration in the field.
- IMC will support and facilitate the consultant(s) travel to and within Kano, Kaduna and Bauchi States, and back to his or her home.
- The consultant(s) will be required to abide by the IMC security procedures and rules in place for IMC staff.
- The consultant will cover his/her food and subsistence related costs while in the areas of this assignment while IMC will offer only accommodation for the Lead consultant.
- The consultant will conduct his/her work using his/her own computer equipment. Other costs related directly to the task, like photocopying of questionnaires, shall be covered by IMC.
- Terms of payment will be negotiated upon acceptance of the consultancy. On the basis of the above proposed activities, the total budget for the consultancy will include VAT as required.
- Final payment to the consultant will be made dependent on the completion of all deliverables.
- IMC Nigeria reserves the right to organize a discussion and feedback session where the consultant(s) presents the first draft report of the assessment. The consultant(s) shall incorporate the feedback from this session as deemed necessary.
- The assessment report shall be written in English.
- The consultant will submit digital dataset, electronic and hard copies of the report written in Microsoft Word.
Deliverables:
- Inception report including data collection tools, enumerators training report, field work final report (including short term and medium-term recommendations), electronic and hard copy, detailed including all necessary chapters of standard reports.
- Data and analysis outputs, raw and electronic version.
Duration of the consultancy:
- The proposed fieldwork will last for 45 days (including training and technical support).
Application Closing Date
14th September, 2026.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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