Vacancy For Consultant at Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria, 14th March, 2019

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Breakthrough ACTION/Nigeria is a new five-year, USAID-funded project. The goal of Breakthrough ACTION/Nigeria is to increase the practice of 17 priority individual and household level behaviours and five provider targeted behaviours in the areas of malaria; maternal, newborn, 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: Consultant, BA-Nigeria Women Group Location: Abuja Job Summary

• For the 'Women's Group' prototype, BA-Nigeria is looking for a consultant who will provide overall guidance in the development and/or adaptation of an approach that enables women of reproductive age learn about MNCH and Nutrition, and access opportunities for basic economic empowerment.

Scope of Work:

• Assist BA-Nigeria with supportive supervision of the women’s groups when established
• Develop and submit comprehensive report of the support provided to BA-Nigeria towards establishment of the women’s groups.
• Other tasks that may arise and agreed with BA-Nigeria.
• Provide overall guidance to BA-Nigeria on development and/or adaptation of an approach for women’s groups
• Identify and showcase successful models of women's groups previously established that may be adapted
• Support all activities leading up to establishment of the women’s groups including, development/adaptation of materials, training, selection of sites and participants etc.

Essential Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience nurturing and working with women’s groups at community level on issues related to MNCH, Nutrition and microcredit
• Residence in one of BA-Nigeria project states
• Must be able to read, write and communicate fluently in Hausa and English.

Timeline:

• The consultancy will be for a period of 15 days from March 31 to July 31, 2019.

    How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should submit their Application and CV in a word or PDF format to: [email protected] Indicate the position in the title/subject of the email application. Example: Consultant for Women Group.   Application Deadline 18th March, 2019. Note

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Candidates that do not comply with application instruction will be disqualified.

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