Consultants at the Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN)

The Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) is a non-governmental, non-profit making coalition, made up of organizations with a shared vision to transform Nigeria into a country where every citizen has food and is nutrition secured. CS-SUNN pursues this lofty goal by engaging and mobilizing Government and Non-state actors to advocate for relevant policy implementation, raise awareness, generate evidence, build capacity and stimulate communities to scale-up nutrition in Nigeria, with special focus on maternal and child nutrition. The organizational capacity of CS-SUNN to become a leading voice on nutrition advocacy in Nigeria led to the SUN Movement Pooled Fund Project.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Consultant to Translate Advocacy Document (Christian Sermon Notes) to Local Languages; Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba

Reference No: Cs-Sunn/2021-05/0001
Location: Abuja (FCT)
Type: Consultancy
Career Category: Advocacy / Communications
Theme: Food and Nutrition
Organization: Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria
Delivery time: Delivery time for this assignment will be 31st of May 2021.

Background

• The Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) is a non-governmental, non-profit making coalition, made up of organizations with a shared vision to transform Nigeria into a country where every citizen has food and is nutrition secured. CS-SUNN pursues this lofty goal by engaging and mobilizing Government and Non-state actors to advocate for relevant policy implementation, raise awareness, generate evidence, build capacity and stimulate communities to scale-up nutrition in Nigeria, with special focus on maternal and child nutrition. The organizational capacity of CS-SUNN to become a leading voice on nutrition advocacy in Nigeria led to the implementation of the SUN Movement Pooled Fund Project.
• The Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Pooled Fund (The Pooled Fund) is a source of funding of catalytic and innovative projects to support Multi-Sector/Stakeholder Platforms in SUN Countries to increase the effectiveness and impact of national efforts to end malnutrition in all its forms.
• Pooled Fund grants will promote engagement of additional relevant actors in the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder national plans for nutrition, at national and sub-national level.
• The objective of Window II of the Pooled Fund is to strengthen linkages and joint collaboration within the Multi-sector / Stakeholder Platform at both the national and sub-national level. Improve the delivery of multi-sectoral nutrition activities that impact nutrition outcomes for nutritionally vulnerable groups including: women, girls and adolescents, and communities at the local level. The Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) is implementing the Pooled Fund project in the five focal states (Kaduna, Gombe, Kano, Oyo, and Enugu).
• To this effect, CS-SUNN requires the services of a consultant to translate advocacy documents (Christian Sermon notes) to local languages; Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba which will be used to disseminate messages on food and nutrition towards improving nutrition outcomes in Nigeria.

Purpose of Assignment:

• The purpose of this assignment is to translate advocacy documents (Christian Sermon) notes to local languages; Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba.

Scope of Work:

• As consultant, you are expected to translate the advocacy document to local languages ( Ibo, Hausa and Yoruba) The Consultant will independently undertake the translation of a 42-page (approximately 6,541 words) English document into simple and standard Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba.

Qualifications and Specialized Knowledge

• 3 - 5 years of experience translating English into Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba
• Demonstrated ability to write in simple and standard Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to use Microsoft Word
• Access to a laptop to accomplish the scope of work
• Availability during the consultancy period.

Expected Deliverables:

• Finalized translated document in Ibo will be in Microsoft Word document
• Finalized translated document in Hausa will be in Microsoft Word document
• Finalized translated document in Yoruba will be in Microsoft Word document

Application Closing Date
31st May, 2021 before 12 Noon.

Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their complete offer via mail to: procurement@cs-sunn.org using the job title and the Reference No as the subject of the mail.

Please address correspondence to:
The Executive Secretary,
Civil Society – Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN),
Plot 203 Cadastral Zone B02,
Off Oladipo Diya Way (Beside Concordia Apartment),
Durumi District, Abuja.

Note
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• CS-SUNN has a zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and sexual abuse in all ramifications. This is considered gross misconduct. ‘Sexual abuse’ means the actual or threatened physical intrusion of a sexual nature, whether by force or under unequal or coercive conditions.