Consultant

A reputable Non-Profit Organization - Incorporated in 2013 with a mission to improve the quality of decision making and execution in the health sector through a focus on results at scale, providing analytical support, driving innovation, and substantive engagement with key stakeholders, we seek to address complex and fundamental health system challenges in Nigeria and Africa by focusing on the core pillars of health systems that ultimately drive transformative and sustainable impact on society.

The Federal Ministry of Health (Non-Communicable Diseases Division) and our organization are collaborating to implement a diabetes awareness and care project in the FCT and Imo State, with support from the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Consultant - Diabetes Care and Awareness Project in Nigeria Baseline/Endline Survey
Job Location: Abuja

Project Background & Consultancy Objectives

• The Diabetes Awareness and Care Project in Nigeria will run for 3 years and is aimed at improving Diabetes health outcomes in selected communities in the FCT and Imo state
• The project aims to do this by increasing demand for diabetes prevention and care services in the communities and at the same time strengthening the primary health care facilities to respond effectively. The project would ultimately strengthen evidence-based programming and policy-making towards reducing the burden of diabetes in Nigeria.

To this effect, a Consultant is now required to conduct preliminary and other activities towards effective implementation of the project as outlined below:

• Finalize the Baseline Survey Framework which is already being drafted with full participation from FMoH and us to serve as baseline, throughout the project implementation and for the final impact assessment.
• Coordinate and oversee two Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) and prevalence surveys on Diabetes Risk Assessment- one at baseline and one at the end of the project.
• Put together a team of enumerators and translators who can support the baseline / project impact assessment process and coordinate the trainings of same in addition to other members of the project team. Both the consultant and the local research team will work at all times in collaboration with the FMoH and our staff involving them in all processes.
• Supervise local enumerators to collect good quality data and perform Quality Control
• Conduct a project impact assessment at the end of the project using the baseline survey framework as a basis for analysis.
• Write a baseline report and a Project Impact Assessment report at the end of the project.

Scope of Work

• Develop appropriate survey methodology; design, sample size calculations, sampling techniques
• Train enumerators and community mobilisers in data collection
• Develop questionnaires and tools to be used for baseline survey
• Administer survey and follow-up data collection to ensure data quality and quantity
• Collate, process and analyze data
• Provide us with hard copies of individual responses and soft copies of collated responses
• Produce and present the draft report
• Integrate comments and produce hard and soft copies of final report

Desired Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Experience in Community Health programming or work/project/surveys
• Previous experience in conducting KAP surveys and prevalence studies.
• Good technical knowledge of diabetes; prevention, risk factors, management and care
• Excellent communication, writing, and editing skills
• Be based in the FCT
• Familiar with transparency and accountability processes and their values
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Relevant university degree or higher education, preferably in Medicine/ Public Health
• Proven track record in related consultancy work
• Of Added Advantage will be evidence of publication of surveys in peer-reviewed journals and a good understanding of/sensitivity to different cultures and traditions in communities to be surveyed

Note
Candidates are to submit the following below:

• A proposed methodology (minimum of 3 pages)
• Detailed CV. Please include your: Daily rate (justified by reference to previous work) and the estimated number of days as well as (at least) two references from work conducted in the last 24
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