Consultant - Covid-19 and Epidemic-Prone Diseases at the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA)

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) (formerly National Action Committee on AIDS) was established in February 2000 to coordinate the various activities of HIV/AIDS in the country.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Consultant to Assess Capacity to Create Responsive, Science-Shaped, Data-Driven, and Context-Specific Communications for Covid-19 and Epidemic-Prone Diseases at Sub-National Level

Location: Abuja
Grade: Consultant
Project / Program:  CRM19

Background

• The ongoing to the COVID-19 pandemic response has shown that right information delivered in the right way to the right audience and at the right time can promote positive response and adherence to public health recommended safety measures.
• It has been noticed that the states have limited capacity to use data to drive risk communication campaigns at the subnational levels and as such, training is necessary to build the needed skills to use data to inform risk communication activities.
• In other for the training to be effective, there is need to carry out a risk communication capacity need assessment to assess and develop a state-specific training curriculum and train the team to create responsive, science-shaped, data-driven, and context-specific communications for COVID-19 and epidemic-prone diseases at the sub-national levels.
• The assessment will help to identify priorities in terms of preparedness to respond positively to reduce risks and identify gaps and requirements to inform risk communication efforts that can produce efficient results and a tangible impact during a public health event.

Job Description
Specific Duties for this role will include the following:

• Develop a questionnaire to access the state’s capacity to create data-driven, and context-specific communications for COVID-19 and epidemic-prone diseases
• Develop an FGD guide to access the state’s capacity to create data-driven, and context-specific communications for COVID-19 and epidemic-prone diseases
• Participate in training RCCE officers in NCDC to collect data
• Travel to supervise data collection process in the States
• Analyze and develop a report of the assessment
• Present result to the NCDC team
• Expected outcomes
• Identified state-specific gaps and challenges
• Findings will inform the development of a state-specific training curriculum for Risk communication

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of an MSc in Social Sciences, Public Health, Information Systems or any other related field of study
• Minimum of 3 years of progressive experience relevant to project management.
• Experience in implementing Global funds or any other donor-funded project(s)
• Knowledge and evidence of standard software packages (Microsoft package) and the ability to learn project-specific software if required.

Essential Skills:

• Strong IT, administrative and data analysis skills
• Good written & oral communication /presentation skills
• Organizational skills & ability to multitask
• Excellent interpersonal skills as well as working well within a team environment
• Good Data Management & Analysis

Duration:

• 14 days within a 3-month period.
• The activity is planned for implementation in 12 states as follows: Taraba. Benue, Cross River, Kebbi, Ondo, Adamawa, Katsina, Nasarawa, Rivers, Ebonyi, Imo and Ekiti.
• The consultant may be required to travel to anyone of the 12 states as may be determined during implementation.

Application Closing Date
12:00 PM: 12th April, 2022.