Project officer, Advisor at Malaria Consortium in Niger

Goal

The goal of this consultancy is to participate certified Project officer(s) who will offer business and IT assistance to the state execution team to guarantee efficient organizing, synchronization, execution, and status updates of the 2025 combined SMC/ITN marketing.

Objective of the Task

The Project officer Advisor will assist Malaria Consortium’s state execution team to supply SMC/ITN initiatives at LGA level. The advisor will organize closely with LGA Site Officers, state participants, supervisors, and health facility employees to guarantee successful marketing roll-out. The position covers business organizing, oversight, logistics synchronization, status updates, and participant relation.

 Embedded Assist Model:

Advisor will be embedded within MC’s state execution framework and work across all allocated LGAs. Will organize directly with LGA teams, supervisors, and MC State Technical specialist.

 Execution Plan:

• Assist business organizing and guarantee promptness accessibility of marketing materials.
• Organize logistics allocation, development, and oversight across allocated LGAs.
• Track execution quality, offering IT assistance to supervisors, LFOs, and group systems.

Assist and Oversight:

Documentation straight to the State Program Manager, with dotted-line technical monitoring from the State Technical specialist. Engage in routine synchronization and evaluate sessions at state level.

Timeline:

Advisor will be engaged for 30 operating days from August to October 2025.

Specific Duty

Anticipated Outputs

Number of Consultancy Days

1

Assist pre-execution organizing and logistics allocation

Business and logistics preparedness documentation

2 (August)

2

Track execution of SMC marketing at LGA/group level

Routine oversight checklists, trip documentation

4 (August)

3

Assist operational check-in sessions and client engagement on action points

Operational check-in meeting notes

1 (August)

4

Assist data verification with ICT4D and Monitoring and evaluation teams

Approved documentation and settled discrepancies

1 (August)

5

Assist pre-execution organizing and logistics allocation

Business and logistics preparedness documentation

2 (September)

6

Track execution of SMC marketing at LGA/group level

Routine oversight checklists, trip documentation

4 (September)

7

Assist data verification with ICT4D and Monitoring and evaluation teams

Approved documentation and settled discrepancies

2 (September)

8

Organize and oversee development sessions for supervisors and LFOs

Development documentation and presence sheets

2 (October)

9

Carry out helpful oversight during SMC/ITN consolidation

Oversight and supervising documentation

4 (October)

10

Record lessons learned, success stories, and industry standards

Recordkeeping documentation

3 (October)

11

Support to End-of-Cycle (EoC) documentation and overviews

Project officer section of EoC documentation

3 (October)

12

Send concluding consultancy documentation

Concluding consultancy documentation

2 (October)

30 Days

Outputs:

• Deployment readiness documentation and development documentation.
• Oversight checklists and stand-up meeting notes.
• Activity and trip documentation from helped LGAs.
• End-of-Cycle documentation payments and recordkeeping of lessons learned.
• Concluding consultancy documentation.

Responsibility:

• Documentation straight to the State Program Manager – Yobe.
• Works closely with the State Technical specialist, Monitoring and evaluation Officer, and ICT4D team.
• Aligns with MC’s safeguarding, ethics, and information security rules.

Assist and Assets:

• Advisor to use personal laptop and smartphone.
• MC will offer entry to internet and marketing analytics platforms.
• ICT4D and oversight resources will be deployed during orientation.

Anticipated Result:

• Smooth synchronization and execution of SMC/ITN initiatives across LGAs.
• Prompt accessibility of products, development, and logistics.
• Precise and prompt status updates from LGAs.
• Strengthening capacity of supervisors and LGA teams.
• Recordkeeping of lessons learned and industry standards.

Consultancy Qualifications

• Academic qualification in Community health, Community-related Sciences, or relevant field.
• A minimum of 2 years’ expertise in programme execution, ideally malaria or community health marketing.
• Robust synchronization and supervisory competencies.
• Expertise in logistics and participant relation.
• Effective communication and people skills.
• Competence in English and Hausa; Kanuri is a plus.

Note

• Suitable applicants who are driven and ready to support towards the accomplishment of our targets should kindly fill in the application form below before 5:00pm Monday, 1st September 2025.
• Kindly note that candidates who do not follow this specification will be rejected.
• Only Select applicants will be reached.
• Kindly note that applications will be examined on a rolling basis, and as a result, the process may finalize before the promoted due date. Therefore, early applications are highly inspired.
• Malaria Consortium does not accept or request payment during hiring process. We also would not accept hardcopy CVs; all applications should be sent through the above link.
• For this role, previous operating expertise with MC and in SMC are added advantages.