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Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Senior Security Manager to join our team in Abuja Office.

Job Purpose

The job holder will be responsible for ensuring that all project activities in states where the Malaria Consortium operates is implemented in a safe and secured manner, following agreed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and with daily decision making based on risk and security awareness.

Scope of Work

The Senior Security Manager position will coordinate and oversee the security management of all Malaria Consortium operations, projects, and programmes to ensure the achievement of project goal and objectives. The position holder will analyse complex security issues and contexts, create, and continually update a country security communication tree and location specific Safety and Security Plans (SSPs) and associated SOPs, and give sound practical safety and security advice make decisions to support safe operations. S/he will also be responsible for providing guidance to the Country Director in the management of security situation within MC operations in Nigeria.

Key accountabilities

General security duties (covering all states where Malaria Consortium operates) – 40%

• Lead SMs in the delivery of effective and efficient safety and security management for Malaria Consortium in Nigeria
• Create the country security communications tree and ensure that it always remains updated.
• Work with SMs to coordinate the review the security risk profile of each ward, LGA and project states where Malaria Consortium plans to commence project activities.
• Work closely with the SMs and SSFPs to ensure that Security Adaptation Principles are strictly followed by all staff.
• Coordinate and work with the SMs in ensuring that security risk assessments are completed and signed off and agree implication on operations function and programme management with functional leads and project and programme leads.
• Ensure the development of risk mitigation measures and contingency plan drawing on result of the risk assessment, and all staff trained on the safety and security procedures for their respective project states, LGAs and wards.
• Ensure that all states have a designated fire warden, and that fire equipment checks, and fire drills are done at least once every 6 months.
• Establish and maintain an active information network, which includes national and state security actors, peer NGO security focal points and relevant security alert sources to obtain daily reliable and credible and relevant safety information.
• Ensure that all international visitors receive security briefings on arrival in Nigeria.
• Provide travel security clearance for in-country staff at the states’ offices within MC north-central zone and country headquarters travelling nationally and internationally.
• Support the SMs and SSFPs to ensure that Security Briefings are conducted for all new staff and all visitors to the states within the NC zone and country office (national and international).
• Work with relevant operations staff to ensure that all Malaria Consortium vehicles, offices and rented vehicles have the right equipment and tools to support good safety and security practices, and that all such equipment is regularly checked and tested.
• Support the SMs to conduct quarterly physical security assessments on states under his/her purview and carry out quality assurance on the security assessments conducted by the other Security Managers
• Serves as security focal person with donors as necessary.

Security Duties related to Project/Intervention Activities – 35%

• Coordinate security assessment in all the states implementing SMC and LLINs campaigns at the planning state and ensure recommendations from the assessment feed into the micro plan and design of implementation strategies.
• Review the list of hospitals for the conduct of REVEAL activity and any such activities before commencement or research, data collection and other activities.
• Review security status of each state after each cycle, including level of compliance with security protocol in previous cycle and make recommendations accordingly, for the next cycle
• Input daily and weekly into all SMC project activity plans for the programme, LGA, Ward and community activities ensuring that all activities are planned based on the principle of ‘staff safety first’
• During major project activities, along with SMs, Project Leads, Operations and Project staff, make daily decisions from a security perspective, approving, restricting, or delaying activities and/or movements where needed.
• Working with the SMs, project, and state leads, maintain a movement tracker for the movement of all national, state, and temporary employees related to the major MC interventions (SMC, LLIN campaign), ensuring that it is updated daily and accurate at all times, and includes start and end locations, estimated start and end times, driver and passenger names and contact details, vehicle details.
• Ensure that for all national staff movements, there is an agreed mode of communication that is functional in the areas to be visited, with agreed check-ins for every trip
• Provide weekly security reports to the Country Director copying relevant Project Leads, the Country Operations, and the Global Operations Manager, including with a risk map by LGA and LGAs with planned activities for the following week where there is major project operations, highlighting relevant risks and mitigation plans.

Security Document Development, Updating and Capacity Building – 25%

• Work with the SMs and State Security Focal Persons (SSFPs) to draft, implement and continually update (at least every 6 months) the location specific Safety and Security Plans, with associated SOPs, using the standard template which includes communications and movement protocols, security communication tree, information flows, etc.
• Review the security profile of each SMC state after each project cycle (as prepared by the SMs) and submit updated risk profile to the Country Operations Manager and Programme Directors for approval, at least two weeks to the next project cycle.
• Ensure that all staff in Malaria Consortium Nigeria receive a safety and security induction and have completed relevant internal and online security training courses.
• Collaborate and work with the SMs and SSFPs to ensure that all state staff are trained on and are familiar with and follow the programme Safety and Security Plan and associated SOPs.
• Work with the SMs and SSFPs to embed all safety and security SOPs and develop the safety and security capacity of the State staff.
• Conduct an awareness safety and security training/webinar to all staff via skype or zoom biannually to reinforce Malaria Consortium’s safety and security policy and provide updates on current threat trends in all MC states.
• Ensure that all staff working in Nigeria have completed the required online security trainings.

Security Management – 5%

• Serve as the primary contact for the SSFPs in each state and the country office on safety and security incident reporting.
• Work with SSFPs and country office leadership in the management of security incidents.
• Monitor all agreed security management actions and provide update as necessary.

Qualifications and experience

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in security management of operations in a conflict situation, with extensive experience of security management in Nigeria
• Demonstrated courses in security management
• Has held a senior security manager role in an international NGO within the last years
• Significant experience in risk analysis and management
• Ability to demonstrate their links with relevant security networks in Nigeria
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team

• An effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent analyst
• Ability to work effectively in a culturally sensitive setting
• Ability to explain complex security issues to a non-technical audience
• Ability to work independently in an organized manner but within an integrated team
• Ability to give attention to details

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VACANCY

Position: Data Collectors                          

Experience: One - Two Years’ Experience

Location: Local Government Areas in the locations- (FCT and Oyo)

Duration: May, 2022

Malaria Consortium requires qualified research personnel that will carry out data collection, analysis and interpretation focus on conducting an assessment to evaluate the HMIS performance in eight SMC-implementing states and the FCT Abuja the assessment will inform the development and implementation of a continuous data quality improvement and use plan for HMIS at state, LGA and HFs levels. The findings from the assessment will guide the development of a comprehensive action plan to improve malaria data quality in selected health facilities across the eight states and the FCT Abuja.

Specific Activities for the personnel

• Data Collectors/Research Assistants (54): The data collectors will be responsible for administering the questionnaire at HF level according to the data collection protocol. They will undergo a 2-day training on SMC, data collection protocol/methodology, data collection instrument, art of data collection, inter-personal communication, and the use of electronic platform. The training will be facilitated by the trained state consultant/supervisor. One data collector per LGA will be required for this study (on the average of 6 LGAs per state and the 6 area councils of the FCT Abuja).

Qualifications and experience:

Profile requirements of data collectors

• A minimum of degree (BSc/HND) in Social Sciences and Health related discipline.
• Experience in conducting public health research, particularly data collection.
• Experience in the use of modern technology in research, especially computer assisted personal interviews (CAPI) and simple apps like ODK and SurveyCTO.
• Familiarity with terrain of the locality.
• Ability to give attention to details.

Timelines for Activities:

• May, 2022

No of TA Days

Data Collectors- 10days

Interested and qualified candidate who are passionate and willing to contribute towards the achievement of our goals should kindly fill the form using the link below https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7wWlKGlAt4BJDMiJP8NU6p393WONM6rHnPmWYNeK4DcJe6w/viewform?usp=pp_url before 8am Monday, 9th April, 2022.

Kindly note that applicants who do not follow this specification, will be disqualified.

All application should be sent in on or before 7:59am Monday, 9th April, 2022.

Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Kindly note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, therefore early applications are highly encouraged.

NB: Malaria Consortium does not accept or ask for payment during recruitment. We also would not accept hardcopy CVs; all applications should be sent through the above link.

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Position B: Lead Consultant (National Consultant)         

Position C: National data analyst

Experience: Eight Years’ Experience

Location: FCT, Bauchi, Borno, Plateau, Nassarawa, Kogi, Kebbi, Sokoto and Oyo states.

Duration: May-June, 2022.

Malaria Consortium requires qualified research personnel that will focus on conducting an assessment to evaluate the HMIS performance in eight SMC-implementing states and the FCT Abuja the assessment will inform the development and implementation of a continuous data quality improvement and use plan for HMIS at state, LGA and HFs levels. The findings from the assessment will guide the development of a comprehensive action plan to improve malaria data quality in selected health facilities across the eight states and the FCT Abuja.

Specific Activities for the personnel

National consultant

• Oversee the data analysis component of the assignment.
• Work with state consultants in the selection of HFs according to the protocol.
• Support training on the survey tools for the data collectors.
• Prepare data collection and supervision plans.
• Track, review and validate electronic submission from field data collectors daily.
• Monitor data collectors directly in the state during data collection.
• Review of HMIS assessment questionnaire.
• Field supervision/monitoring plan.
• Collated training reports and activity reports.
• Coordinate the entire field work.
• Quality-assure daily submissions from the state teams.
• Write a final report on the assignments outlining the best practices, the lessons learnt, challenges, achievements, and recommendations.

National data analyst

• An interim data analysis plan.
• Collation of all data generated from the assessment across the states.
• Analysis of the entire data, the collection process, recommendations, and conclusions.

State-level consultant

• Selected HFs for assessment.
• An interim data analysis plan.
• Submit a final report with revisions based on the inputs and feedback on the draft report.
• Organizing data collection visits in facilities (making initial contact, preparing a schedule of data collection visits, etc.).
• Supervising data collection activities: − make sure data collection protocols are followed. Arrange for regular communication with data collection teams − Check data collection forms at the end of each day for completeness and legibility − Ensure data are uploaded on ODK server at the end of each day and at national level by the end of the assessment.
• Collecting and storing data collection forms and sending them to the lead consultant.
• Follow up with LGA and state HMIS officers to fill self - administered questionnaire
• Cover selected LGA/HFs and supervise 2 assessment teams.
• Help the assessment teams collect data, collect, and review the completed questionnaires, troubleshoot problems, and finalize and submit the completed questionnaire using SurveyCTO.
• Have the daily schedule and contact numbers of the assessment team.
• Visit each team during the assessment and help the team complete the assessment (where necessary).

Required consultant qualification

National Consultant

• Minimum of Master’s degree in the Social Sciences or related fields and at least 7 years post-graduation.
• Previous experience in assessments, and surveys, especially within the Public Health sector and HMIS system strengthening.
• Knowledge of malaria and its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment is required.
• Excellent training and supervisory skills.
• Excellent technical writing and presentation skills
• A proven ability to work as part of a team and, independently.
• Excellent ability in data analysis especially qualitative data analysis and interpretation.
• Demonstrated report writing skills for quantitative study and surveys.
• Experience using qualitative software e,g Nvivo, ATLasTi, etc
• Ability to work under stressful conditions and to remain flexible and calm under pressure.
• Experience of proactively identifying and addressing bottlenecks/issues desired.

National Data Analyst (qualitative and quantitative)

• Degree holder in Mathematics, Demography, Statistics, or other related disciplines with at least 5 years’ post-qualification experience.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in public health research methodology.
• Must be familiar with statistical tools like STATA, Nvivo, ATLas, etc.
• Excellent analysis of survey results.
• Demonstrable report writing skills.

State consultant

• Minimum of Master’s degree in the Social Sciences or related fields and at least 5 years post-graduation.
• Previous experience in assessments, and surveys, especially within the Public Health sector and HMIS system strengthening.
• Knowledge of malaria and its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment is required.
• Excellent training and supervisory skills.
• Excellent experience in using Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience of establishing strong working relationships with team members and state personnel.

Timelines for Activities:

• May-June, 2022

No of TA Days

• State Consultants -15days
• Lead Consultant (National Consultant)  -13days
• National data analyst – 8days

Interested and qualified candidate who are passionate and willing to contribute towards the achievement of our goals should kindly fill the form using the link below https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfo6lqnv-kIVaaum64VVaRgrKNItr2RjGH1B_bdb7xwlS9IhA/viewform?usp=pp_url before 8am Monday, 9th May, 2022.

Kindly note that applicants who do not follow this specification, will be disqualified.

All application should be sent in on or before 7:59am Monday, 9th May, 2022.

Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Kindly note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, therefore early applications are highly encouraged.

NB: Malaria Consortium does not accept or ask for payment during recruitment. We also would not accept hardcopy CVs; all applications should be sent through the above link.