Jobs at The Danish Refugee Council (DRC)

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Contract length: 01 month
Level: Consultancy
Start date: 15th March, 2018.

About the Job
DRC currently has offices in Abuja, Yola, Mubi, Maiduguri and Yobe, with over 200 national staff and 21 expatriate staff providing emergency assistance to populations affected by the conflict in NE Nigeria.  In partnership with WFP, DRC is implementing in-kind food distribution activities (GFD and BSFP for children under 2 / 5 years and pregnant and lactating women) in Mafa, Bama, Ngala, Jere (Farm Centre) and Michika LGAs in Borno and Adamawa States.

The transition to cash-based transfers is planned for March 2018 in one camp of Jere LGA (Farm Centre; population around 21,000). Over the last year, DRC has strengthened and expanded the scope of its operations in all of these locations, through providing an area-based, integrated and multi-sectorial response that generates full complementarity between its core sectors of Food Security, WASH, NFI and Shelter. As a leading Protection agency, and alongside the Armed Violence Reduction (AVR) programme in humanitarian mediation run by the Danish Demining Group (DDG), DRC’s approach mainstreams protection and increasingly conflict mitigation between communities throughout its means of implementation.

A strong understanding, regular monitoring and analysis of the dynamics of each community has led to increasingly effective nutrition enrolment and positive-change indicators, has served to identify early some underlying protection risks and dynamics, and has been a key factor in mitigating the developing tensions between IDPs and host communities. Scaling up, adapting and refining outreach, sensitisation and understanding of vulnerability in each location has been crucial to identifying at risk individuals and being able to provide equal assistance in a safe, dignified and equal manner.

Purpose of the Consultancy

• To be successful in this role we expect you to build the capacity of field officers to support community members in growing, preparing and consuming nutritious food.

Tasks and Responsibilities
Situational analysis:

• The consultant will conduct rapid participatory research to understand the needs of the community members and field officers in terms of challenges relating to availability, access, affordability and acceptability of nutritious food as well as infant and young child care and feeding practices, health and hygiene situation.
• This will be done through a desk-based review, interviews with key informants, focus group discussions with selected community members and a mini workshop with field officers.

Training Field Officers:

• Field officers will participate in a ToT to enable them to cascade training in nutrition basics and methods for growing, harvesting, preparing and consuming nutritious food.

Developing Training Support Kit:

• The consultant will develop a training kit to support the field officers. This will include – a simple training manual, visual aids and a key messages booklet for community members.

Expected outputs:

• Situational analysis report
• Training report
• Training kit

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent in  Nutrition, Public health, International Development, Social sciences or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in nutrition and agriculture related field
• Experience in community-based training, training of trainers and development of training and IEC materials.
• Fluency in English

Core Competencies:

• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and maintain effective working relations with people of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds
• Ability to use participatory research and training methods in working with multistakeholder groups
• Ability to self-motivate, organise and manage
• Ability to work in rural community settings
• Ability to adhere to deadlines
• Excellent facilitation, communication and reporting skills
• All consultants should master DRC's core competencies: Communicating, Taking the lead, Collaborating, Striving for excellence and Demonstrating integrity.

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Location: Maiduguri, Borno

About the job

• DRC currently has offices in Abuja, Yola, Mubi, Maiduguri and Yobe, with over 200 national staff and 21 expatriate staff providing emergency assistance to populations affected by the conflict in NE Nigeria.
• While investment in the pipes, pumps and treatment systems of wastewater collection systems are often necessary for health improvement, they are insufficient on their own. 
• It has long been recognized that the everyday acts of the individual and the household in managing water and waste can have a profound impact upon health and nutrition outcomes. 
• These everyday habits are referred to as “hygiene behaviour” which includes such activities as handwashing, the management and disposal of infant stools, household practices of water storage and use, food storage and use, management, disposal/reuse of household solid waste, etc. 
• Efforts to promote (by whatever means) hygiene behaviours that improve health and nutrition are referred to as hygiene promotion.
• Hygiene promotion is recognized as an essential activity to maximize the health and nutritional benefits resulting from the major infrastructure investment of the DRC/ WFP project as well as other projects implemented by DRC within the region.

About you
To be successful in this role we expect you to be responsible for:

• Production of Situational Analysis:  The consultant will conduct rapid participatory research to understand the needs of the community members and field officers in terms of challenges relating to availability, access, affordability and acceptability of nutritious food as well as infant and young child care and feeding practices, health and hygiene situation.  This will be done utilizing desk review, interview of key informants, focus group discussions and workshops with field officers
• Training field officers: Field officers will participate in a ToT to enable them to cascade training in nutrition basics and methods for growing, harvesting, preparing and consuming nutritious food.
• Developing training support kit: communication to promote hygiene (e.g. house to house visits, mass media, community events, etc.) and by whom (e.g. Cultural Health promoters, Water Users’ Associations, mass media, Health outreach workers, local govt.)

Scope of Work
See the attached Terms of Reference (ToR) for further details:

Objectives and summary of the consultancy:

• The consultant will be asked to conduct detailed formative research as a basis for WFP / DRC related hygiene promotion. The data gathered during the formative research should serve as the basis for detailed hygiene promotion program design, to be closely coordinated with the community mobilization efforts of the overall food security program.

The objectives of the formative research are to:

• Identify and prioritize high-risk hygiene practices in the project area.  This research should take into full account whatever is already known about hygiene behaviour in the region, and is intended only to “fill the gaps” of knowledge.  In particular, the consultant should start with a review of the work prepared as part of the Scoping Study.
• Identify the most promising motivators for change in behaviour: i.e. those aspirations and desires most likely to be effective in promoting change in behaviour. (e.g. religious motivation, self-respect, desire for cleanliness, respect for community, peer pressure, etc.)
• Identify the most appropriate channels and agents of communication to promote hygiene (e.g. house to house visits, mass media, community events, etc.) and by whom (e.g. Cultural Health promoters, Water Users’ Associations, mass media, Health outreach workers, local govt.)
• All consultants should master DRC's core competencies: Communicating, Taking the lead, Collaborating, Striving for excellence and Demonstrating integrity.

Moreover, we also expect the following:
Required

• Master's Degree or equivalent in Nutrition, Public Health, International Development, Social Sciences or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years' experience working in nutrition and agriculture related field
• Experience in community-based training, training of trainers and development of training and IEC materials.
• Excellent facilitation, communication and reporting skills
• Fluency in English

Desirable:

• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and maintain effective working relations with people of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds
• Ability to use participatory research and training methods in working with multistakeholder groups
• Ability to self-motivate, organise and manage
• Ability to work in rural community settings
• Ability to adhere to deadlines

Selection Criteria

• Administrative Evaluation: Evaluated to ensure compliance with all the documents required
• Technical Evaluation:

Criteria
Notation:

• Experience in research work in a similar context as the crisis in NE Nigeria: 3
• Experience in food security/health/hygiene promotion analysis (at least 5 years of experience): 4
• Excellent English writing skills, qualitative adn quantitiative analysis skills-evaluation based on the excerpts from recent evaluations submitted: 4
• Quality of the evaluation methodology - based on clear sampling methodology, tools development methodology and coherent workplan: 5
• Total: 20

Following a shortlisting based on these criteria, an interview will take place. The interview will be evaluated on:

Criteria
Notation:

• The in-depth knowledge of the consultant of the Nigeria context: 4
• The relevant expertise/experience based on the CV: 4
• The ability to demonstrate and justify the methodology relevance when challenged: 5
• The ability to work in autonomy: 3
• The consultant availability: 4
• Total: 20.

We Offer

• Contract length: 2 months
• Level: Consultancy
• Designation of Duty Station: Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria
• Start date: March 15, 2018