Audio-Visual Studio Construction Consultant 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: Audio-Visual Studio Construction Consultant

Location: Abuja

Job Description

• Breakthrough Action-Nigeria hereby seeks proposals from Abuja based individuals or companies with experience in Radio drama production to produce 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 (SBC) programs for malaria and family planning and Maternal and Neo-natal Child Health in Nigeria.

Responsibilities
The consultant will be responsible for designing and constructing a technically sound and visually appealing studio within an allotted space. This task is expected to be carried out in two phases: Phase 1- Assessment and prototyping and Phase 2- Construction and testing.

Specifically, the consultant will be responsible for:

Phase 1:

• Conducting a needs assessment for BA-Nigeria in-house audio and video editing requirements
• Designing an audio-visual studio layout containing audio booth and video editing suite that meets BA-Nigeria needs
• Developing a prototype (either a sketch or 2D/3D model of the studio layout) and run it through the technical oversight team for approval
• Providing a detailed list and technical specification of studio equipment to be procured

Phase 2:

• Organising and supervising the construction for the vocal booth, video suite and entire studio space based on the approved prototype

Test run the studio:

• Deliverable: High quality and technically sound acoustic audio-visual production suite in allocated space.

Consultation Period/Timeline 
The consultation period will be broken down in 2 phases for 9 weeks in total- 2 weeks for phase 1 and 7 weeks for phase 2:

Phase 1 (estimated to start February 18):

• Week 1: Needs assessment and Designing
• Week 2: Prototyping, Iteration and Approval

Phase 2 (start date TBD):

• Week 3-5: Construction/Building
• Week 6-8: Testing
• Week 9: Delivery of a fully operational audio-visual studio
• Supervision and Technical Oversight: The consultant will report directly to BA-Nigeria SPO 2, Media

Terms of Payment:

• Payment is on daily rate
• The consultant will be paid 100% of the consultancy upon satisfactory delivery of services at the completion of each phase.
• Note that 5% of the overall consultancy fee will be deducted as Withholding Tax and paid to the appropriate revenue
• collection authorities on behalf of the consultant.

Timeline:

• The Consultant must provide Phase-1 deliverables by or before March 4, 2019
• Timeline for starting Phase 2 and deliverables to be determined based on approval of design.

Application Closing Date
5:00pm; 31st January, 2019.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Cover Letter and CV as a single document to: [email protected] Candidates should use the following format in the subject line of their email submission “BA-N Consultant Audio-Visual Studio Construction” followed by candidate’s name - For example, if a candidate named Mathew were applying for the position, the subject line for the submission should read: “BA-N Consultant Audio-Video Studio Construction Mathew”

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.
• Minimum qualification here entails experience in the construction of high-quality studio space
• Interested Consultants must also attach pictures/samples of previous works done.
• Interested Consultants should include financial quotation for the services to be rendered
• 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.
• It is equally important to note that the decision to advance the project from phase 1 to phase 2 is at the discretion of BA-Nigeria.