Malaria Consortium Nigeria Recruits Research Officer

Malaria Consortium (www.malariaconsortium.org) is one of the world’s leading non-profit organisations which is dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities, Government and non-Governmental agencies, academic institutions, local and international organisations; to ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning.

The organisation has been operational in Nigeria since 2008 and recently opened a country office in Nigeria to fully establish itself with long term commitment.

Malaria Consortium now seeks to recruit professionals in its newly established Country Office and new projects / programmes in Nigeria.

Job Title: Research Officer

Location: Katsina

The Research Officer will oversee and carry-out the research aspects of the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) project. The officer will be based in Katsina and will ensure that findings from research are properly documented and disseminated. While working with the Project Coordinator to prepare a detailed work-plan for all research activities in the project.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Providing technical support to the Project Coordinator, Project Director, Principal Investigator and other relevant technical leads to develop research/survey protocols, data collection tools and study operating procedures; to effectively carry out research in the project.
• Ensuring that all approvals are obtained for research activities such as institutional ethical clearance.
• Providing technical inputs for the development of the project communication and advocacy plan and support its implementation.
• Providing periodic updates to the country office team and project stakeholders, particularly at the State and LGA levels and keep abreast with the literature on SMC.

Qualifications
Candidates should possess the following:

• A Health professional with a Master’s degree in any of Epidemiology, Public Health or other related discipline.
• S/he must have a minimum of five years in health research; particularly qualitative research methods including ethnographic studies.
• Previous experience working with rural communities, a good understanding of research data quality assurance and excellent report writing skills is essential for this position.
• The ability to communicate fluently in Hausa language is required.

Application Closing Date
8th March, 2013

Method of Application
Interested candidates should please submit a covering letter addressing your suitability for the post and a CV to include contact numbers and email to:
malaria@gridconsulting.net Please quote the job title in the subject line.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews