Posted on: Fri 17-02-2023

Mercy Corps is a global team of humanitarians working together on the front lines of today’s biggest crises to create a future of possibility, where everyone can prosper. Our mission: to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities. In more than 40+ countries around the world,over5,400+ team members work side by side with people living through poverty, disaster, violent conflict, and the acute impacts of climate change. We’re committed to creating global change through local impact — 84% of our team members are from the countries where they work.

We bring a comprehensive approach to every challenge, addressing problems from multiple angles. And we go beyond emergency aid, partnering with local governments, forward-thinking corporations, social entrepreneurs, and people living in fragile communities to develop bold solutions that make lasting change possible.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Consultant GIRL-H SRHR IN KANO

Location: Kano

Firm or Individual: Individual

Program: GIRL- H SRHR

Task Manager: GIRL-H Program Manager

GIRL-H SRHR Program Overview

• Girls Improving Resilience through Livelihoods and Health (GIRL-H) is a Mercy Corps program targeting adolescent girls and boys, aged 10 to 24 years, in Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria.
• The program aims to improve girls’ well-being by increasing their access to and uptake of life skills, health information, basic numeracy and literacy, and financial literacy, as well as to foster pathways to formal education, economic opportunities and civic engagement.
• The Sexual Reproductive Health and rights component is embedded within the GIRL-H program to create an enabling environment by working with communities to transform unhealthy social norms and increase access to SRHR knowledge, products and services.
• The GIRL-H SRHR program relies on Family Planning 2020, National Youth Policy, National Health Promotion Policy, Health Sector Strategic Plan, and The National Action Plan for Advancing the Health and Development of Young people in Nigeria which calls for the integration of Adolescent & Youth Friendly Health Services (AYFHS) into the Primary Health Centre (PHC) system as one of the important ways for improving the access of young people to appropriate youth friendly SRH services.
• In Nigeria, this SRHR intervention will run from October 2022 to July 2023 alongside the core GIRL-H program on livelihood and resilience.

Goal

To ensure that the adolescent and young people’s wellbeing is improved in Nigeria

Objectives of the project

The objectives of the GIRL-H SRHR program include:

• Increase awareness and knowledge on SRHR services and products among the participants
• Create an enabling environment where adolescents and young people can freely access SRHR services and products
• Increase the uptake of SRHR services and products among adolescents and young people aged 10-24 years

Targets:

5,000 adolescents and young people aged 10 – 24 years.

500 community health workers

Minimally Required Job-Specific Competencies

• Global Health System: Deep knowledge of SRHR ecosystem with the global health and community engagement context, with a focus on AYSRHR.
• Program and Project Planning and Management: Deep skills in program and project management and planning to fulfill performance objectives, including the timely implementation and reporting of donor-funded program activities.
• Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Programs and Services: Strong up-to-date knowledge of adolescent development, family planning and reproductive health principles, policies, and programmatic practices and services, including program strategies and monitoring frameworks, and the latest professional developments in AYSRHR, including related issues such as child marriage, adolescent pregnancy, comprehensive sexuality education, youth participation and leadership.
• Technical Assistance: Proven skills in providing short-term technical assistance to complex health and development programs.
• Interpersonal skills: Skilled in developing productive relationships with varied stakeholders, including colleagues, partners, governments, and clients.
• Self-awareness and personnel development: Committed to growing as a leader and as a professional.
• Presentation Skills: Proven ability to communicate effectively on a range of topics related to AYSRHR to small and large groups.

Deliverables

The SRHR intervention will be implemented in three phases; Inception phase, Intensive phase and closeout phase. The SRHR Consultant will work to deliver on these seven (7) major strategies as follows:

• Advocacy and Sensitization
• Capacity Building
• Community Engagement
• Health Outreaches
• Establishment of Community Accountability Watch Group
• Research
• Partnerships

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Public Health, Community Medicine, Social Science or related discipline. Master’s Degree is an added advantage.
• 5-10 years of related professional experience in adolescent programming, youth, women empowerment, or livelihoods.
• Experience working with relevant government MDAs such as MoH, PHCB etc.
• Proven skills in networking, team building, community consultations, and organizational development.
• Ability to mobilize and supervise a team of health mentors that will disseminate the SRHR curriculum to participants
• Excellent reporting, communication, and representation skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships.
• Willingness to consider new perspectives, promote gender equality and engage in gender training
• Proven knowledge and capacity in using computer basic applications MS Word, Excel, and internet
• In-depth knowledge of the social, cultural, and economic context of Kano is a plus
• Experience in capacity building of health service providers
• Must be based in Kano state. Fluency in the local language (Hausa) is highly desired.
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, operations research, reporting, quality assessments, data analysis and presentation. This includes expertise in research to practice—identifying and adapting best practices to specific project context.
• Strong analytical and technical skills.

Ownership/Control of Work Product/Publication:

Matters relating to ownership and control of work product and publication of materials produced during course of this engagement are addressed in the main contract agreement entered between Mercy Corps.

Authorship and Acknowledgement:

Matters relating to authorship and acknowledgment of any materials produced by the Consultant during this engagement are addressed in the main contract agreement entered between Mercy Corps and the Consultant for performance of services for GIRL- H.

Task Manager/Reporting:

Task Manager is Mercy Corps GIRL- H Program Manager and the Program Director have final sign-off on deliverables and invoices.

Payment and Schedule:

• Payment will be made by milestone upon satisfactory delivery and acceptance of services rendered in the cause of this consultancy.
• All activities and deliverables related to this consultancy will be completed before July 2022 with the Program Director’s final sign-off on deliverables and invoices.

Application Closing Date

22nd February, 2023.

Method of Application

• Tested and qualified candidates should submit the following key documents to: [email protected] using the Position as the subject of the email.
• Proposal Submitals & Evaluation Criteria

Applicants will submit the following key documents:

• Motivation notes outlining experiences and how the applicant meets the requirements of this assignment and Curriculum Vitae (CV) of the applicant (30%);
• Technical proposal outlining how they propose to undertake this assignment including a work plan (30%);
• Finance Proposal that breaks down the consultant’s payment plan by milestone inclusive of transportation (20%).
• Two previous reports on similar or related work (if any) (10%)
• Three referees’ names and contacts related to similar work (10%).

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