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Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of children in over 120 countries around the world.
Recognized for our commitment to accountability, innovation and collaboration, our work takes us into the heart of communities, where we help children and families help themselves. We work with other organizations, governments, non-profits and a variety of local partners while maintaining our own independence without political agenda or religious orientation. Save the Children’s mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Save the Children is looking for experienced development professionals to work within the Nigeria Country Programme. These roles will be critical for the delivery of results for children expected by this programme.

We seek suitable candidates for an upcoming USAID-funded health program in Nigeria. The program will focus on reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) and nutrition and will be implemented at least initially in northern Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Technical Director, RMNCH

Location: Nigeria

Job Description

The Technical Director, in close collaboration with the Chief of Party and Deputy Chief of Party, will provide overall technical leadership to the program.
This is a senior leadership position and the successful candidate will serve on the project senior management team.

Qualifications

Clinical background in medicine or nursing and a Master's Degree in public health or a related field;
Minimum of 10 years of experience in public health, with at least 7 in a senior management position;
Expertise in multiple technical areas highly desired, including family planning and reproductive health, maternal health, newborn health, child health, malaria, and nutrition;
Proven senior expertise in developing and implementing effective partnerships with partners, local government entities, other NGOs, and USAID;
Knowledge and proven experience in strategy development, staff oversight, program administration, contractual compliance, and financial management of large health programs within Nigeria’s public health system.

Other Requirements:

Candidates must demonstrate management, coordination, teamwork, and planning skills, with proven ability to liaise effectively with and collaborate with a range of key stakeholders, including national and local officials, public, private and civil society partners, and communities;
Excellent communication, interpersonal and team management skills;
Strong training, monitoring, coaching and supportive supervision;
Ability to work effectively on the following: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook;
Fluency in English and Hausa languages required; willingness to travel extensively, and potentially live in northern Nigeria;
This position is opened to both national and international candidates.
Only candidates with extensive working experience in Nigeria will be considered for this role.

Job Title: Senior Advisor, Nutrition

Location: Nigeria

Job Description

The incumbent, in collaboration with state and Local Government Area (LGA) Ministry of Health (MOH) leadership and the RMNCH team, will provide strategic direction and technical management for the planning and implementation of facility and community-based nutrition interventions in project states.

Qualifications

Master's degree in Nutrition or related field;
Minimum of 10 years of direct experience in nutrition policy development, program planning, implementation and evaluation, including programs with a strong nutrition behavior change component as well as nutrition services delivery, prevention and management of acute and chronic malnutrition within Nigeria’s public health system;
Prior experience working with USAID funded projects highly preferred;

Other Requirements:

Candidates must demonstrate management, coordination, teamwork, and planning skills, with proven ability to liaise effectively with and collaborate with a range of key stakeholders, including national and local officials, public, private and civil society partners, and communities;
Excellent communication, interpersonal and team management skills;
Strong training, monitoring, coaching and supportive supervision;
Ability to work effectively on the following: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook;
Fluency in English and Hausa languages required; willingness to travel extensively, and potentially live in northern Nigeria;
This position is opened to both national and international candidates.
Only candidates with extensive working experience in Nigeria will be considered for this role.

Job Title: Senior Advisor, Child Health

Location: Nigeria

Job Description

The incumbent, in collaboration with state and Local Government Area (LGA) Ministry of Health (MOH) leadership and the RMNCH team, will provide strategic direction and technical management for the planning and implementation of child health interventions at the facility and community level in project states.

Qualifications

Medical doctor with an advanced degree in Public Health, International Development, or relate field;
Minimum of 10 years of direct experience in child health program planning, implementation and evaluation, including immunization, malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, MCI, ICCM, micronutrients and nutrition within Nigeria’s public health system;
Prior experience working with USAID funded projects highly preferred.

Other Requirements:

Candidates must demonstrate management, coordination, teamwork, and planning skills, with proven ability to liaise effectively with and collaborate with a range of key stakeholders, including national and local officials, public, private and civil society partners, and communities;
Excellent communication, interpersonal and team management skills;
Strong training, monitoring, coaching and supportive supervision;
Ability to work effectively on the following: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook;
Fluency in English and Hausa languages required; willingness to travel extensively, and potentially live in northern Nigeria;
This position is opened to both national and international candidates.
Only candidates with extensive working experience in Nigeria will be considered for this role.

Job Title: Senior Adviser, Community Mobilization

Location: Nigeria

Job Description

The incumbent, in close collaboration with the project team, state and LGA MOH and other relevant ministry staff, will provide technical leadership and coordination to community mobilization activities in project states to improve provider-client interaction, RMNCH behaviors, care-seeking, and strengthen community led initiatives to improve health.

Qualifications

Advanced degree in Public Health, Health Development, or Social Sciences;
Minimum of 10 years of experience in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of community mobilization and SBCC programs within Nigeria’s public health system;
Prior experience working with USAID funded projects highly preferred;

Other Requirements:

Candidates must demonstrate management, coordination, teamwork, and planning skills, with proven ability to liaise effectively with and collaborate with a range of key stakeholders, including national and local officials, public, private and civil society partners, and communities;
Excellent communication, interpersonal and team management skills;
Strong training, monitoring, coaching and supportive supervision;
Ability to work effectively on the following: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook;
Fluency in English and Hausa languages required; willingness to travel extensively, and potentially live in northern Nigeria;
This position is opened to both national and international candidates.
Only candidates with extensive working experience in Nigeria will be considered for this role.

Job Title: Quality of Care for Mothers and Babies Consultant

Job ID: #1118886
Locations: Jigawa and Lagos

Background and Introduction

Save the Children in partnership with Unilever committed to make a real difference in the lives of women and newborn babies in Nigeria; by giving mothers the care they need, and babies the right start to a healthy life; one that they deserve. Through Unilever's support over three years, Save the Children planned to improve the lives and health status of an estimated 435,000 mothers and their babies; 112,000 mothers and babies in 13 Health facilities across 6 LGAs in Jigawa state , and 323,000 mothers and babies in 27 facilities in 7 LGAs and LCDAs in Lagos state. The project also committed to build the capacity of 1,000 health care workers to provide quality health services and appropriate care to mothers and their babies as well as increased awareness among mothers and access to quality maternal and newborn health services.
The Quality of Care project was designed and implemented by following an integrated approach; involving Ward Development Committee (WDCs), supporting target Primary Healthcare Centers as agreed with SMoHs to implement multiple advocacy strategies addressing MNH issues at their ward.. This approach was adopted to maximize local stakeholders' involvement, contribution towards implementation of cost effective packages of proven MNH interventions along the continuum of care.

Purpose of the evaluation study:

This summative evaluation is commissioned by the Quality of Care project team of Save the Children. The purpose of this evaluation is to assess both the processes and outcomes of the project, collect robust evidence, document lessons learnt and best practices to inform future planning, strategy and practice of Save the Children, leadership of SMoH and other relevant bodies.
To this end Save the Children plans to present the findings of the evaluation in a dissemination workshop for major stakeholders including local government decision makers and feed into future strategy particularly as it relates to scle up of QoC approach in the 2 states and in Nigeria as a whole.

Specific Objectives
More specifically, this evaluation will explore the following key evaluation questions and develop recommendations based on the findings:

To what extent did the project meet its stated objectives (Goal and Outcomes indicators) and demonstrated the effectiveness of the approach of Quality of Care contributing to improved health for mothers and newborn babies and technical strengths of the programme overall?
Document project achievements and lessons learned as well as best practices and identify underlying factors (i.e. what worked well and why and what did not work and why).
A comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of the pilot post natal home visits using CHEWS to provide services to beneficiaries in their homes.
Recommend improvements for the longer-term strategies on QoC focusing on project management, achieving quality, accountability and to replicate similar approach in other states in Nigeria. What should have been done differently to achieve more effectiveness, efficiency, Sustainability and impact?

Evaluation Criteria:

Following evaluation criteria is based on the OECD-DAC principles for evaluation of development assistance; the following questions will be used to undertake the evaluation study. Final evaluation report will be expected to respond all questions mentioned below.

Relevance:

To what extent were the objectives of the Quality of Care project valid in response to the needs of the community in the project target areas?
Were the planned programme activities and outputs consistent with the progress on overall goal and objectives?
Were the planned programme activities and outputs consistent with the intended impacts and effects on the improved healthcare for mothers and babies at the time of birth & Immediate Post-Partum Period?

Effectiveness:

To what extent were the objectives achieved likely to be achieved by the end of the project and also identify the underlying reasons leading to achievements and key bottlenecks that contributed to delays?
To what extent did the quality of care project cause changes to the practices of health workers and women that are known to reduce neonatal and maternal mortality? What factors were responsible for these changes?
How effective was the advocacy strategy to influence the MoH's decision to step up regulations for the private sector, what is the evidence to demonstrate project contribution?
How effective was the use of text messaging to convey key educational messages on maternal and newborn health?
What was the effect generated by incorporating reflective practice into supportive supervision of health facilities?
How effective was project activities to improve HMIS data quality and analysis?
How effectively were the findings of the various studies (including Barrier to scaling up MNH interventions , Referral Study, Facility Assessment, Community Based Study of Neonatal Mortality in Lagos, and the report of the ongoing pilot for provision of postnatal home visits) been utilized and disseminated for influencing policies and practices at different levels of decision making?
What have been the effect and the challenges of the pilot for community health worker postnatal home visits for mothers and newborns?
How well did the project team engage with different stakeholders and partner organisations in order to achieve effectiveness and sustainability of project activities.

Efficiency:

How efficient was the project in achieving the desired project outcomes.
Were project objectives and activities achieved on time in the Quality of care Project?
Have the most efficient approach/(es) been used to achieve project Outcomes and Outputs (as compared to alternatives approaches)?

Impact:

What real difference has implementation of the project activities made in the lives of the beneficiaries?
What were the key lasting changes achieved by the Quality of Care project particularly for Mothers and Babies at the Time of Birth & Immediate Post-Partum Period
Did the training of health workers lead to changes in practice and improvement in the quality of care they provided, what evidence do we have and what evidence can we gather to demonstrate this?

Coherence:

To what extent have our interventions been coordinated with the efforts of different stakeholders including WDCs/CDCc?
What internal coordination problems did project team face and how was it addressed?
What was the project level biggest achievement to demonstrate effective coordination? How can we improve coordination if Quality of Care project mobilize further resources?

Sustainability:

To what extent will the benefits of the Quality of Care project for beneficiaries continue after the project funding ceases?
To what extent will the government stakeholders be able to continue with implementation of the project activities in Lagos and Jigawa and do they have the funding and resources or other partners to enable continuity of activities.

Methodology:

The lead consultant will develop the evaluation methodology in collaboration with the MNH Advisors for Lagos & Jigawa State the MEAL Advisor and MNH and M and E advisors from SCUK.
The lead evaluator or team will be expected to write an inception report following review of existing literature and gaps where they explicitly propose an evaluation methodology.
Such a methodology should define an appropriate sample size and specify mechanisms that will be adopted to avoid selection bias.
The evaluation should meet the principles of participation of involving children and adults and making sure that men and women are representative in the data collection.

As a minimum, the evaluation process will include the following key steps:

Secondary data review: Review of relevant literature related to the Quality of Care Project, this includes; the baseline health facility assessment report, project annual reports, project inception report, project monitoring data Barrier Analysis, Referral Study, Facility Assessment, Community Based Study of Neonatal Mortality in Lagos, and the report of the ongoing pilot for provision of postnatal home visits
Draft inception report with summary of literature review and detailed evaluation study design including application of appropriate data collection tools (e.g. questionnaire, checklist etc) for Interviews and discussions with stakeholders including Save the Children staff. Field Data Collection by using -Quantitative and Qualitative methods will be used (Including FGDs and KIIs) with appropriate groups/individuals including beneficiaries, health workers, WDC/CDC members, policy makers and government officials at LGA and State level.
Health Facility Assessment using similar research methodology as baseline assessment including observation of service provision in health facilities, assessments of equipment, commodities and infrastructure.
To review the current status of MNCH related policies and strategies as outlined in the project log frame, as compared to their status at the inception of the project e.g. Child Health Policy and the IMNCH strategy.
To ensure that all outcome indicators in the project log frame are assessed.

Expected Deliverables and Completion Dates

Evaluation Study will be conducted between July 10, 2015 - 15 August 2015
Key Activities Completion Date Planning meeting between consultant and SCI staff to review relevant documents and logistics arrangements for the evaluation.
2 Days Desk Review : Review of documentation and elaboration of field Study 3 Days Inception Report 3 Days Field activities in Lagos & Jigawa State 10days Analysis results, submit first draft of report 5days Final report, debrief and final presentation. 4days

The evaluation will follow the key phases
Phase 1- Desk study: Review of documentation and elaboration of field Study [3day]:

The lead consultant/evaluation team will review relevant documentation. Based on this review; they will produce an inception report which will include an elaborate plan, methodology and sampling strategy of the data collection for evaluation study. The evaluation will only proceed to the next stage upon approval of this inception report. An appropriate inception report format will be made available to the team as part of this TOR.

Phase II: Field Data Collection [7-10 days]:

This phase of the evaluation will seek to collect primary data on the key evaluation questions explained under evaluation criteria. The team will use the agreed plan, methodology and sampling strategy from phase 1 to conduct the field work.

Phase III - Data analysis and production of draft evaluation report [5days]:

The team will draw out key issues in relation to evaluation questions and produce a comprehensive report.

Output and Deliverables
The following specific outputs are expected:

An Inception report
A draft evaluation report
A Final draft evaluation report including country case studies and recommendations to Save the Children for future use of the same or alternative solutions to achieve the objectives.
Data sets (SPSS, Excel) - for all collected data (quantitative and qualitative). Qualitative data should be transcribed for future use by Save the Children Country Program. The data sets should be in an appropriate format (SPSS, Excel, and Word) and will be submitted together with the final evaluation report
PowerPoint presentation, summarizing the key findings from the evaluation submitted together with the final evaluation report

Inception Report:

The evaluation team is expected to submit an inception report after 3 working days of commencing this evaluation.
The purpose of this report is to detail the appropriateness and robust methodology to be employed.
The inception report provides the organization and the evaluators with an opportunity to verify that they share the same understanding about the evaluation and clarify any misunderstanding at the outset.
The report should reflect the team's review of literature and the gaps that the field work will fill. Field work will only commence once this report has been reviewed and agreed with the designated representatives (consortium) of the Stakeholders.

Draft Report:

The draft evaluation report must be submitted to the MEAL Advisor and QoC team no later than eleven days (11) after the field study. The report should conform to a reporting format which will be made available to the consultant on signing the contract.

Final Report:

The final report of the evaluation on the suggested format, after integration of the various comment made, must be submitted by the second week after draft report is submitted and feedback received.
The evaluation report is an exclusive property of the Save the Children should not be released without prior authorization.
The final report will be available through Save the Children and will also be circulated to the country Program.

Date Sets:

The evaluation team will be expected to submit complete data sets (in SPSS/Access/ Excel) of all the quantitative data as well as the original transcribed qualitative data gathered during the exercise.
These data sets should be provided at the time of submission of the final report

Summary Findings:

On submission of the final report, the team is expected to submit a PowerPoint presentation (maximum 12 slides), summarizing the methodology, challenges faced, key findings under each of the evaluation criteria and main recommendations.

Suggested Report Format:

Detailed guidelines on how to structure the evaluation report will be provided to the evaluation team prior to commencement of the activity. The team should conform to this format

Person Specification
Essential:

A lead expert in the field of maternal and newborn health, and research in Nigeria.
Demonstrate competency in maternal and newborn health programming.
A minimum of 10 years' experience in administering surveys, conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis, collecting data and producing quality baseline and end line reports preferably for international non-profit organizations.
Minimum education: Higher degrees in social sciences, public health, statistics or epidemiology.
Knowledge of mixed methods design.
Strong qualitative data analysis expertise required.
Demonstrated analytical, communication and report-writing skills.

Administrative/Logistical Support
Budget:

The lead evaluator will be expected to submit the estimated budget including their consultancy fees along with EoI form.

Job Title: Senior Advisor, Newborn Health

Location: Nigeria

Job Description

The incumbent, in collaboration with state and Local Government Area (LGA) Ministry of Health (MOK) leadership and the RMNCH team, will provide strategic direction and technical management for the planning and implementation of newborn health interventions at the facility and community level in project states.

Qualifications

Neonatologist, pediatrician, medical doctor, or midwife with a master's degree in public health or a similar field;
Minimum of 10 years of direct experience in newborn health policy development, program planning, implementation and evaluation within Nigeria’s public health system;
Prior experience working with USAID funded projects highly preferred;

Other Requirements:

Candidates must demonstrate management, coordination, teamwork, and planning skills, with proven ability to liaise effectively with and collaborate with a range of key stakeholders, including national and local officials, public, private and civil society partners, and communities;
Excellent communication, interpersonal and team management skills;
Strong training, monitoring, coaching and supportive supervision;
Ability to work effectively on the following: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook;
Fluency in English and Hausa languages required; willingness to travel extensively, and potentially live in northern Nigeria;
This position is opened to both national and international candidates.
Only candidates with extensive working experience in Nigeria will be considered for this role.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send your C.V. and qualifying statements to: [email protected] ; explaining why you are suitable for the position you are applying for, State position clearly in the subject field as applications without appropriate subject will be disqualified. Also, applications received after the closing date above will not be considered.

Note: That applications will be treated as they are received and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Application Deadline 19th August, 2015

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