Malaria Consortium Nigeria is committed to tackling the large number of malaria cases and deaths in the country. Working in partnership with the Ministry of Health and other partners, we lead and support three major malaria control initiatives in the country: Support to the National Malaria Control Programme (SuNMaP);
Position A: State Consultants End of Cycle (One per state)
Position B: Lead Consultant End of Cycle (National Consultant)
Experience: Eight Years’ Experience
Location: FCT, Bauchi, Borno, Plateau, Nassarawa, Kogi, Kebbi, Sokoto and Oyo states.
Duration: July –October, 2022.
Malaria Consortium requires qualified research personnel that will carry out data collection, analysis and interpretation for the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention End of Cycle evaluation based on LQAS approach. The consultants and the supervisor will train data collectors and oversee data collection process while other personnel will carry out the actual data collection using an electronic platform.
The End of Cycle (EoC) evaluation will be conducted in the eight states and the FCT Abuja where SMC is being implemented. The process will involve identification, selection and training of supervisors at a training of trainers (ToT) and subsequently, data collectors in the states. The aim of the EoC evaluation is to assess SMC coverage and adherence of community drug distributions (CDDs) to treatment protocols immediately and not more than 5 days after each cycle of treatment.
Specific Activities for the personnel
Lead consultant
- Receive briefing from the programme team at the national level
- Review data for quality, and clean the data using STATA.
- Compile and analyze all state data set into single dataset.
- Compile and submit a single technical report highlighting key findings and recommendations from all the eight (8) states and FCT Abuja.
- Train the state consultants and supervisors.
- Work closely with the Malaria Consortium Team to get required support and documents including data and templates for the report, including the template for technical reports.
- Submit overall report.
State Consultants
- Overall technical oversight for implementation of the EoC protocol in assigned state.
- Collectively develop agenda for the training of data collectors.
- Facilitate the training of data collectors and supervisors in their respective assigned states.
- Collectively review the supervision checklist that will guide supervisors during data collection.
- Develop pre and post test questions as well as qualitative performance assessment checklist to be used for final selection of data collectors.
- The dataset from each of the LQAS cycles
- Download analyzed data from the electronic platform – SurveyCTO.
- Interpret the analyzed data in a simple usable form for SMC personnel.
- Facilitates the feedback mechanism of findings as appropriate.
- Present feedback of LQAS to country office and state teams.
- Write technical report highlighting key findings and recommendations
Deliverables for State Consultant
- Training agenda.
- Training delivery guide, stating quality parameters for the delivery.
- Training monitoring checklist to be used by MC Zonal/Senior Project Managers to ensure quality.
- Supervision checklist.
- Pre and post test results.
- Technical report – narrative format.
- Technical report – Power point format.
Deliverables for Lead Consultant compiling the reports
- Technical report – narrative format in Malaria Consortium standard template.
- Technical report – in MC Power point format.
Qualifications and experience:
Profile requirements of Lead/State Consultants
- Must be a degree holder in Public Health, Demography, Statistics, or other related disciplines with at least 8 years’ post-qualification experience.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in public health research methodology.
- Must be familiar with SurveyCTO, STATA, and other statistical software.
- Ability to demonstrate good facilitation skills.
- Demonstrable report writing skills.
- Availability for the whole of the period of the survey. (July –October, 2022).
- Must not be a staff of Government or involved in SMC activity at any level and in any State Ministry of Health (SMoH).
- The Lead Consultant must be resident in Abuja; while state consultant must be resident in the state for which s/he applied for.
Timelines for Activities:
- July –October, 2022
No of TA Days
Lead Consultant- 14 days
Method of Application
Kindly note that applicants who do not follow this specification, will be disqualified.
All application should be sent in on or before 7:59am Wednesday, 11th May, 2022.
Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted
Kindly note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, therefore early applications are highly encouraged.
NB: 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.
If you have recently applied for this role, please do not re-apply as double application will be disqualifed.Interested and qualified? Go to Malaria Consortium on docs.google.com to apply
