Team Lead - Community Based Activities (TLCBA) at Malaria Consortium

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: Team Lead - Community Based Activities (TLCBA)

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-Time

Scope of Work

• The TLCBA will provide technical leadership and guidance to the IsDB Project by supporting establishment of standards and quality of SBC activities.
• The position holder will lead the design and implement SBCC, identify innovative approaches including results measurements, to show achievement of programme targets.
• An important aspect of the role is to build the IsDB Project capacity in social mobilisation and behaviour change communications and to advise the commercial market partners on the generic marketing and ensure synergy with the updated NMEP ACSM strategy.
• The position holder will lead, quality assure and contribute to development, roll-out, and evaluation of SBCC strategies and plan; including advocacy for resource mobilisation, programme communication, community dialogues, gender and equity.
• S/he will lead /coordinate formative research and other studies which are relevant for effective SBCC, will contribute to continuous programme improvement through experiential learning, contribute to the evidence base for SBCC, and support peer-reviewed publications, knowledge management products, technical reports, conferences and presentations. In addition, the SBCC Specialist will contribute to improvement of approaches, assure and document value for money (vfm) for SBCC component.
• He/she will work with partner to also initiate and carry out relevant capacity strengthening of our key stakeholders such as Ministries of Health, national partners in IsDB project media and others related to SBCC. .

Key Working Relationships:

• The TLCBA will work with members of IsDB Project team. He/she will work closely Malaria Consortium’s SBCC Specialist to develop a coherent and effective SBCC strategy and monitor results of its implementation.
• He/she will be a member of Malaria Consortium’s Public Health Communications Community of Practice, and collaborate with the External Relations team. Selective inputs will be sought from members of the Senior Technical Team in the Nigeria country team of the Malaria Consortium including harnessing experiences from SuNMaP2 which are relevant for an effective SBCC approach in IsDB project.
• He/she will need to have regular communications with state project teams and FCT implementation partners. In the implementation of work on social mobilisation and demand creation they will need to collaborate and communicate with stakeholders such at the

Key Accountabilities
Social and Behaviour Change Communications, SBCC (40%):

• Provide technical support, training and leadership in the development of social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) strategies and materials
• Advise the programme team, NMEP, & FCT in adapting strategies, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of SBCC interventions, including the generic marketing activities.
• Facilitate the uptake of effective SBCC practices in malaria among the programme team at national level and in programme states
• Lead the design and coordinate implementation of formative research, other studies and assessments on SBCC for the programme.

External Relations, Networking and Representation (15%):

• Participate in national and regional working groups, and other national and regional communities of practice on SBCC and others as relevant.
• Actively participate in the ACSM working group of NMEP coordination platform, and provide regular updates on group activities. Use the platform to share experiences from IsDB project and to garner relevant experiences from other members of the ACSM working group which help to improve the effectiveness of IsDB project’s SBCC approaches.
• Facilitate the relationship with media representatives, national partners, malaria advocates and stakeholders’ in accordance with guidelines regarding media, social and community engagement
• Ensure compliance with branding policies of Malaria Consortium, and UK Aid in production of print, electronic and other materials/tools
• Work with project teams in country and MC/UK to provide content for dissemination on digital platforms such as website and social media.
• Work closely with the SuNMaP2 Team leader and the Senior Malaria Expert to handle community and public relation requests sent to IsDB project.

Qualifications and Experience
Essential:

• Master's Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline (public health/epidemiology/medicine/nursing/parasitology/tropical medicine) with minimum of 7 years of experience;
• Demonstrated experience of planning and management of malaria programming in developing countries including Nigeria. Experience from African countries will be an asset;
• Deep experience with community-based approaches for malaria prevention and control include and behaviour change communication in accordance with the most current national protocols.
• Familiarity with analytical tools and ability to translate theoretical concepts into practical approaches for operational work; and
• Strong communication skills (oral and written) in English. Knowledge of other Nigerian languages will be an asset.

Desirable:

• Demonstrable experience in the use of new and emerging information and communication technologies to reach audiences effectively and at scale
• Experience providing technical support to project teams remotely and physically, while meeting high standards
• Knowledge in communicable disease control and in particular malaria
• Experience planning, facilitating and managing stakeholder engagement and consultation workshops.

Work-based skills:
Essential:

• Excellent interpersonal, team building, problem solving skills
• Excellent intercultural skills
• Excellent writing and oral presentation skills
• Fluent in English Language
• Familiar with qualitative research methods
• Capacity building skills
• Capable of materials pretesting
• Ability to organise focus group discussions
• Results-oriented attitude to work
• Ability to work independently with little support
• Ability to manage a fluctuating workload, prioritise and re-prioritise when necessary and meet tight deadlines
• Able to travel to IsDB project -supported areas for up to one week at a time (sometimes at short notice).

Salary
N10,306,944.00 / annually

Application Closing Date
15th July, 2023.