Infodemic Management (IM) Consultant at Breakthrough Action Nigeria

Breakthrough ACTION/Nigeria is a 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, new-born, 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: Infodemic Management (IM) Consultant

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type:

Scope of Work
The Infodemic Management Consultant will provide overall technical support to the country’s infodemic management system to further strengthen coordination, collaboration, and communication among relevant stakeholders. More specifically, the IM Consultant will:

• Provide technical assistance to the National Infodemic Management Team’s (NIMT) to coordinate stakeholders and use data for informed action.
• Develop SOP and guiding documents for infodemic management operations in Nigeria.
• Strengthen coordination of infodemic management operations at all levels.
• Build the capacity of focal persons across key One Heath MDAs on Infodemic Management using a synchronized and harmonized curriculum, tools and template.
• Institutionalize community listening and polling approaches at national and sub-national levels.
• Ensure the collection and triangulation of data from offline (community listening/polling) and online (social listening) sources to guide the development of insights and trend reports in a timely manner.
• Explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that will support real-time development of content to timely address mis/disinformation debunking and prebunking.
• Ensure the co-creation and supervision of amplification channels for NIMT activity following a well-developed (social)media guide.
• Establish a system that measures output, outcome and impact of IM activities and ensures maximum productivity.
• Strengthen coordination, collaboration and communication among relevant stakeholders and partners working in infodemic management in the country.

Minimum Qualifications & Skills

• A minimum of a postgraduate Degree in Public Health, Social / Health Sciences, Health Informatics, Communications, or related discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years post NYSC work experience is required.
• Proven experience in leading infodemic management activities.
• Excellent analytic, writing, presentation and mentoring skills are highly desired.
• Excellent knowledge of infodemic management, global health security and One Health concepts.
• Proven ability of working with cross-cutting national and subnational government MDAs.

Application Closing Date
29th September, 2023.