Consultant - Radio Program Writers 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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Consultant - Radio Program Writers

Location: Abuja

Details

• Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria hereby seeks proposals from individuals or companies with experience in writing radio drama and factual program to design content for a Hausa radio program.
• BA-Nigeria works with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), National and State Malaria Elimination Programs (NMEP/SMEP) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Implementing Partners (IP) to develop comprehensive, costed, state-level Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) programs for malaria, family planning, tuberculosis (TB) and Maternal and Neonatal Child Health Plus Nutrition (MNCH+N) in Nigeria.
• The consultants will use a pre-existing creative brief to design and create refreshingly new and exciting radio spots scripts on several thematic areas for the project-MNCH+N, Family Planning, TB and Malaria.

Specifically, the consultant will be responsible for writing:

• Scripts for 26-episode radio program (including drama and factual information). Each episode 25 minutes.
• The consultant will sign a MOU not to share or use any of the final products of the work with others and not to use them for any other purpose outside this scope of work.
• Deliverable: 26 Exciting radio program scripts on the MNCH+N thematic area.
• Consultation period: 6 weeks (March 11th - 22nd April 2019)
• Supervision and Technical Oversight: The consultants will report directly to BA-Nigeria Program Officer II-Media

Timeline:

• The Consultant must provide final deliverables by or before 22nd of April 2019
  

Qualifications

• Demonstrated professional writing for radio
• Proven ability to write engaging content for radio (both dramatic and factual info)
• Experience developing radio content-drama and factual for public health related projects
• Experience developing social and behavior change content
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Access to a laptop to accomplish the scope of work
• Availability during the consultation period

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 appropriate tax authorities on behalf of the Consultant.

Application Closing Date
5.00pm, 31st 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] candidates should use the following format in the subject line of their email submission "Application for BA-N Spots Writers" followed by candidate's name-. For example, if a candidate named Grace were applying for the position, the subject line for the submission MUST read: "Application for BA-N Consultant Spot Writer Grace". Any emails without this exact subject line format will be immediately discarded.

Note

• The document should be a cover letter first, with bullet points in bold on how the candidate meets the minimum qualifications. Following the cover letter, in the same document, should be the candidates CV.
• Interested Consultants must also attach script samples (in English or Hausa) and portfolio of previous works with references. Additionally, soft copy attachments or links to audio files (English or Hausa) that demonstrate the applicants work (would be preferred. These links should be in the attached any of the attached documents but not the body of the mail.
• Interested Consultants should also include financial quotation for the services to be rendered
• All attached document should have the candidate’s full name as part of the document name e.g. Yanusa Hassan’s Financial Quotation.
• Only final candidates will be contacted for further engagement
• Proposals will be scored on the completeness and quality of the technical proposal, quality of the proposed work plan, quality of the budget and accompanying narrative, and relevant experience.