National Consultant 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: National Consultant

Location: Osun
Employment Type: Contract

Job Description

• The aim of the technical assistance is to evaluate the experiences and perspectives of caregivers, community mobilizers and relevant stakeholders on PMC community dialogue intervention and gain in-depth understanding of lessons learnt to inform scale up of PMC SBCC intervention.

Scope of assignment
The Most Significant Change methodology will be used for the SBCC evaluation. The following activities will be carried out:

• Development of a qualitative research protocol including the preparation of MSC participatory data collection tools.
• Collection of data using focus group discussion with selected groups of people in selected LGAs
  • FGDs will be conducted with caregivers of children less than two years, health workers, men, WDCs and community mobilizers. Caregivers and health facility staff will be recruited from intervention facilities on scheduled recruitment days, caregivers of eligible children will be invited to take part in a FGD on a named date in an accessible, private location.
  • Groups will be purposely sampled to represent a range of implementation and socio-demographic states (including intervention coverage, age, gender, and staff type). A minimum of four FGDs will be conducted per day. Overall, a minimum of 16 FGDs will be conducted. The study will aim to include 8-10 participants per FGDs.
• Transcription of focus group discussions
• Analysis of findings on the cognitive, emotional, and environmental factors that drive behaviour change
• Analysis of the target audience needs and behaviour on PMC and Immunization.
• Preparation of draft and final report based on feedback from Malaria Consortium and the NMCP.

Expert Profile for National Consultant (1)
Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the overall tasks
• Develop plan with detailed timeline
• Develop power point presentation slides for training of research assistants.
• Draft manuscript on SBCC evaluation
• Develop protocol and tools using most significant change methodology
• Facilitate one day training for the data collectors
• Supervise data collection process (including spot-checks, audio monitoring and verifying transcriptions)
• Conduct data analysis and develop detailed draft report of findings
• Submit final draft reportwithin 5 days of receiving feedback from project team
• Draft and submit consultancy report

Deliverables for National Consultant:

• Draft Protocol including data collection tools
• Draft data analysis plan
• He or She must deliver all activity deliverables within contract time frame.
• Develop training materials for data collectors.
• Coded data sets
• Submit final SBCC evaluation report with recommendations

Qualifications and experience for National Consultant
Essential:

• MPH or MSc in Public Health, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work or relevant societal science field with experience implementing research in Nigeria or similar developing country
• At least 7 years’ experience conducting and supervising qualitative study and use of qualitative data analysis tools
• Demonstrated expertise in community entry and mobilization techniques, particularly in southern Nigeria.
• Skilled in quality assurance procedures, including spot-checks, audio monitoring and verifying transcriptions
• Proven expertise in analysis and reporting of finding of qualitative study in Nigeria or similar developing country context
• Familiarity with most significant change research methodology and PMC intervention or similar intervention for disease prevention.
• Proven experience in writing reports for public health programs or projects in Nigeria or similar developing country context
• He/she should have experience in publications (should be first author of at 2 papers in (international journals).
• Residency in Osun State is strongly preferred, to facilitate familiarity with local context and logistics.

Desired:

• Access to a qualitative software such as Atlasti and have excellent capacity in the use of the software for coding and analysis
• Extensive knowledge of the Nigerian public health sector
• A proven ability to work as part of a team
• Experience in setting up and facilitating meetings
• Ability to work with little or no supervision
• Good writing and reporting skills
• Good presentation skills
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills in English

Application Closing Date
7th November, 2025 5:00pm.