Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organisations specialising in the comprehensive prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable and under privileged populations. We increasingly find our work on malaria can be effectively integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact and therefore expanded our remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: National Consultant - Epidemiologist / Surveillance (Regional STTA)
Location: Nigeria
Activity Timelines: February - March 2022
Total TA Days: 12 TA Days
Overview
We require qualified personnel with expertise in Malaria programming who will facilitate a landscape and context analysis of the malaria control situation in Borno, Lagos and the FCT.
The landscape and context analysis will involve collaboration with key stakeholders at the national (NMEP, FMOH -Child Health Dept) and sub-national levels (Borno, Lagos and FCT) especially the SMOH, SPHCBs, SMEPs, LGAs and MFPs including community-based service providers.
The key domains of the analyses will include:
Community accountability structures
Malaria control and child health situation analysis
SMEP and LGA institutional capacity assessment
Partners and private sector stakeholders landscaping
Health systems assessment (especially PSM and HMIS relevant to malaria programming) in both public and private sectors.
Objectives of the analysis are to:
Assess the state’s community level structure for malaria accountability and expansion of access to quality services
Describe the current malaria situation and programme implementation status in the states (malaria epidemiology, intervention coverage, barriers and facilitators of intervention coverage, and treatment seeking behaviour).
Conduct a rapid assessment of the capacity of key personnel at the state and LGA (programme officers) to plan and implement malaria control activities effectively and selected health facility workers on integrated case management of fever.
Conduct a landscape analysis of partners and private sector organizations working on malaria in the state.
Assess the key health systems components especially procurement supply chain management and health management information systems relevant to malaria programming both in the public and private sector.
Specific Tasks / Deliverables
Draft protocol and tool for landscape and context analysis
Organize stakeholder engagement meetings and interviews
Conduct desk reviews - published and unpublished literature review, review of reports, policies, plans etc
Mapping of stakeholders and potential malaria partners in the states
Conduct field work – including key informant interviews and health worker interviews
Map commodity procurement and distribution channels and document gaps
Conduct S.W.O.T analysis of LMIS and HMIS
Assess SMEP/LGA institutional capacity
Synthesize findings from desk review and empirical data collection
Write report.
Qualifications and Experience
PhD or equivalent experience in Public / Global Health, Epidemiology, Statistics or a related research discipline.
At least 15 years post-qualification experience
Extensive experience in a research role with an excellent understanding of quantitative and qualitative research approaches
Experience in primary and secondary analysis of household survey data and matrix of data from various sources
Experience in research management and understanding of good research practice
Experience in study protocol and tools design and evaluation research
Demonstrable experience in situation analysis, landscaping and context analysis
Demonstrable first-hand experience publishing scientific work in peer-reviewed journals
Demonstrated experience in survey design, survey implementation, analysis, and report-writing
Knowledge of malaria prevention and control in endemic settings
Excellent statistical analysis skills including familiarity with software such as STATA, R or Statgraphics
Experience with qualitative data analysis and synthesis
Experience in qualitative study design, data collection methods and data analysis using relevant data analysis software like AtlasTi, Nvivo etc.
Excellent command of English with exceptional writing and communication skills and the ability to present information in clear, concise, and compelling ways
Results-oriented attitude to work;
Experience in working effectively with government and non-government partners.
Application Closing Date
28th February, 2022 by 11:59 AM.
Applicants who do not follow this specification will be disqualified.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, therefore early applications are highly encouraged.
Malaria Consortium does not accept or ask for payment during recruitment. We also would not accept hardcopy CVs; all applications should be sent through the link above.