Consultant - Technical Producer at Breakthrough Action-Nigeria

Breakthrough ACTION/Nigeria is a new five-year, USAID-funded project. The goal of Breakthrough ACTION/Nigeria is to increase the practice of 17 priority individual and household level behaviors and five provider targeted behaviors in the areas of malaria; maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition; family planning and reproductive health (RH); and tuberculosis, while increasing the capacity of national and sub-national entities to coordinate and oversee quality SBC programming. Implementation will vary by health area across eleven states.

The project is conducting the feasibility stage of the TB Human Centred Design (HCD) methodology and requires an experienced Consultant in Abuja to carry out the scope of work outlined below:

Job Title: Consultant - Technical Producer

Location: Abuja

Scope of Work

• The consultants will use a pre-existing creative brief to design and create refreshingly new and exciting radio program on MNCH+N thematic area for the project.

Specifically, the consultant will be responsible for:

• Recruiting a professional Hausa musician for a theme song
• Recording, mixing and mastering a theme song for the program
• Designing, recording and mixing unique stings for the program
• Conducting technical rehearsal with actors/presenters
• Recording 26 episodes of 25-minute radio program content (drama + factual) within production schedule
• Editing and mastering for 26 episodes of 25-minute radio content with production schedule
• The consultant will sign a MOU not to share or use any of the final products from the work with others and not to use them for any other purpose outside this scope of work.
• Deliverable: high quality and engaging 26-episode radio program on MNCH+N thematic areas.
• Consultation period: 7 weeks (May 6th-24th June 2019)
• Supervision and Technical Oversight: The consultant will report directly to BA-Nigeria Program Officer II-Media

Timeline:

• The Consultant must provide final deliverables by or before 17th of June 2019

Qualifications

• Demonstrated professional development in radio production
• Experience recording radio drama for public health related projects
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Access to studio space and recording gadgets to accomplish the scope of work.

Terms of Payment

• Payment is on daily rate
• The consultant will be paid 100% of the consultancy upon satisfactory delivery of services.
• 5% Withholding Tax will also be deducted from the total value of consultancy fees and paid to relevant tax authorities.

Application Closing Date
25th January, 2019.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application Letter/Expression of Interest and CV as a single PDF file saved with your full name to: [email protected] Indicate the title of the consultancy and location as the subject of your email application for the position. e.g. Consultant - Technical Producer - Abuja.

Note: Candidates that do not comply with application instruction will be disqualified.