Established in 2003, Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organisations specialising in the prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable populations. Our mission is to save lives and improve health in Africa and Asia, through evidence-based programmes that combat targeted diseases and promote universal health coverage.
Locations: Abuja (FCT), Abia, Borno and Kogi
Employment Type: Contract
Project background
- Building on its extensive experience in supporting malaria prevention programmes, Malaria Consortium has received philanthropic funding to support the implementation of the 2026 Insecticide-Treated Net (ITN) Mass Distribution Campaign in Borno, FCT, Kogi and Abia states in collaboration with the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) and State Malaria Elimination Programmes (SMEP).
- The campaign is designed to ensure equitable access to quality ITNs while strengthening monitoring, accountability, and evidence generation to inform future malaria control strategies. To enhance operational efficiency and data quality, the campaign will leverage a fully digitalized implementation approach which will facilitate timely data capture, improve campaign oversight, strengthen monitoring and evaluation processes, and support efficient coordination among stakeholders throughout the implementation period.
Rationale
- The LGAs Coordinators are required to provide direct oversight and effective coordination of all mass campaign activities in the assigned LGA during the ITN mass campaign, providing regular feedback to the Campaign Implementation Team.
- The LGA Coordinator play critical functions in the ITN mass distribution campaigns at each LGAs/ward level, a role focused on planning, administrative, operational, monitoring and supervision of daily implementation activities.
Goal of the assignment
- The overall objective of this consultancy is to support MC in the implementation of the 2026 ITN mass campaign distribution in Borno, FCT, Kogi, and Abia, at Local government level by providing coordination, administrative support, leadership and oversight on all implementation activities, including provision of oversight to all work stream in each of the assigned LGA.
Specific objectives
- The overall objective of this consultancy is for the LGAs coordinators to support and lead the administrative activities in the implementation of the 2026 ITN mass campaign distribution in Borno, FCT, Kogi and Abia State local government levels, working with Malaria Consortium and State Ministries of Health (SMoH) by providing coordination assistance and oversight as per this Terms of Reference (ToR).
Methodology
- The support would be via a combination of administrative, coordination and supervisions and oversight function. Each LGAs coordinator will work in sync with other CTAs which will include Training and Technology Administrator (TTA), Cluster Supervisors, Distribution Hub Supervisors, Mobilization and Distribution Team but would oversee the campaign implementation at LGA areas of their jurisdiction, with support from, State Malaria Elimination Program and Malaria Consortium campaign team.
- The LGA Coordinator will be reporting to the State Campaign Manager and have dotted line reporting to the Work Stream Advisors. They would be providing support in ITN distribution training and implementation activities in ensuring timely implementation of planned activities.
- This will include supporting training and personnel management, logistics and ITN distribution, community mobilization and stakeholder engagement, payment and administrative processes, campaign monitoring, and ICT4D activities, while identifying and resolving implementation challenges to ensure smooth and effective campaign delivery activities in all wards in Borno, FCT, Kogi, and Abia. The exercise will commence with State level training and conclude with a report, after the campaign (net distribution) proper.
Responsibilities
The specific tasks include:
Working in collaboration with the campaign implementation team;
- Facilitate training session as required.
- Ensure all training attendance sheets are properly filled
- Ensure all accounts details of campaign personnel in the LGAs are correct and verified.
- Ensure that personnel without account details are documented with their phone numbers and their details forwarded to finance.
- Documentation of personnel should be according to their respective tasks (That is town announcers, DH personnel and MDTs etc)
- Ensure payment details for each concluded activities in their LGAs are shared with finance (i.e. Training and regular working day activities should not be lumped together).
- In collaboration with Campaign Finance & Administrative officers coordinate vendors activities and service delivery at LGAs level, ensuring quality services are deliver as required.
- Follow up with LGAs store readiness at LGAs level and ensure that the stores are ready before distribution start.
- Supervise the delivery of ITNs to the LGAs stores.
- Supervise the distribution of ITNs the DH.
- Support LGAs advocacy and program implementation.
- Visit at least ten households per day in a selected ward to monitor the door – to- door distribution process.
- Provide daily feedback from the LGAs supported during daily review meetings.
- Provide real time support and monitoring information on the use of android devices during ITNs distribution activities.
- Coordinate device and inventory management within the assigned LGAs.
Description of Duties:
Coordination and oversight:
- The LGA coordinators will ensure LGAs are implementing the campaign in accordance with the National Operational Manual and MC guidelines.
- He / She will supervise personnel working on ITNs replacement campaign at LGAs level, support advocacy to stakeholders, ensure trainings are carried out accordingly and support the trainings as required, support monitoring and supervision of all campaign activities, support personnel data changes on the DIGIT HCM platform, ensure review meetings are held, export LGA HH door-to- door distribution coverage data from DIGIT HCM platform and discuss during review meeting, with a view to escalating issues that cannot be resolved at the LGA to the state campaign team for intervention and quick resolution.
Operations:
- The LGA coordinator is expected to collate the digital and paper attendance sheet and verify names on the attendance sheets. This entails line by line verification and conduct spot checks for paper attendance and populate the information from the support documents in a required excel template.
- The LGA coordinators will verify the account details of campaign personnel using standard methodology. He/she will be responsible for preliminary onsite review of information/data in the field before documents are sent to MC office in respective states. This is to ensure that discrepancies are detected early, reported and addressed immediately.
- The LGA coordinator will collate other support documents that are necessary for payment (such as copies of waybill e.tc) he/she will be the link between MC and the LGA personnel. He/she will send payment schedule to the Campaign Finance and Admin officers for further confirmation and revert to participants with issues that need follow-up.
- The LGA coordinators will be responsible for distribution of campaign materials (training and implementation) for their respective LGAs to ensure timely delivery of the food, the right quantity based on agreement with the vendor and to report issues with regards to the feeding if any.
Digital Health:
- The LGA coordinators will ensure effective compliance with the Digit strategy process and provide the required coordination guidance to the ward supervisors, mobilization and distribution team (MDTs) on the use if the android devices.
- LGA coordinators will ensure distribution (and subsequent retrieval) of Digital Health tools to identified cluster supervisors, household mobilizer/ITN distribution team; and update the inventory as necessary. He /she will update device security, safety and management document by cluster supervisors, household mobilizers/ITN distribution teams before collection of Digital Health tools and will also provide and deliver buffer devices in a case of theft, loss or damage to Digital Health tools assigned to campaign personnel for an activity. He/she will ensure completion of device incidence report forms where necessary and provide real time field evaluation report on the use of the devices to designated Digital Health focal supervisor.
- Any other duty as assigned by the campaign manager.
Qualification and Experience
- First Degree / HND in a relevant field.
- A minimum of 3 years relevant post-graduation experience
- Work-related experience in a public health organisation
- Proficiency in Microsoft office, including word, excel, PowerPoint, internet navigation and outlook
- Previous experience in the use of electronic data monitoring systems will be added advantage
- Previous experience in ITN/SMC mass campaign will be added advantage.
Type of personnel required:
- Specific experience in malaria programmes strongly desired.
- Proven experience in managing public health programmes or projects in Nigeria basically at local level context.
- Demonstrated ability to monitor, supervise, and train in health service programmes
- Excellent leadership qualities.
- Previous training by NMEP and experience in ITNs mass distribution campaigns.
- Knowledge of malaria and its prevention, diagnosis and treatment is required.
- Experience with a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing significant workloads and multiple tasks, in a fast-paced environment, with tight deadlines is required.
- Strong representational skills and ability to interface with multiple stakeholders, representatives, and partners (including representatives of government agencies) in a professional manner on an ongoing basis.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively under pressure and to prioritize competing demands.
- Strategic, analytical and decision-making skills.
- Excellent experience in using Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Experience of proactively identifying and addressing bottlenecks/issues desired.
- Experience and understanding of technical and M&E issues related to mass ITNs campaign required.
- Previous experience in electronic data monitoring systems desired.
Application Closing Date
15th September, 2026; 05:00 PM.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online – Borno
Click here to apply online – Kogi
Click here to apply online – Abia
Click here to apply online – Abuja
Note
- Candidates who are passionate and willing to contribute towards the achievement of our goals should kindly fill in the application form below and submit their resume in PDF Format
- Safeguarding Requirement: Candidates must complete the Safeguarding Course on Kaya using this link Log in to the site | Kaya as you will be mandated to submit the certificate at the point engagement – Only candidates who provide a valid certificate will proceed with the engagement process.
- Applicants who do not follow this specification will be disqualified and only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and as a result, the process may conclude before the advertised deadline. Therefore, early applications are highly encouraged.
- Malaria Consortium does not accept or ask for payment during recruitment. We also would not accept hardcopy CVs; all applications should be sent through the above link.
- Safeguarding: Malaria Consortium is committed to protecting children and vulnerable adults and ensuring that all staff, partners, and representatives uphold the highest standards of ethical conduct. Our Safeguarding Policy outlines our responsibility to prevent abuse, harassment, and exploitation in all areas of our work. We expect everyone working with us staff, consultants, volunteers, and partners to adhere to this policy and our Code of Conduct. By following these standards, we help create safe environments and reduce any risk of harm in the communities we serve.
