2025 Job Vacancy at Malaria Consortium (4 Positions)

Applications are invited from interested and qualified candidates to apply for the job vacancy at Malaria Consortium. You are invited for roles many roles to apply for.

Malaria Consortium is an international non-profit organization based in Cambridge Heath, London, specializing in the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases, particularly those affecting children under five.

They provide technical assistance and support to various regions, including efforts in Niger state, Nigeria, to implement community-based health initiatives.

Individuals interested in the job vacancy at Malaria Consortium should review the job details, requirements, and application process provided below.

Research Assistant – Quantitative Survey

Specifications:

• Full Time
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND
• Location: Kebbi | Nigeria. See other Jobs in Kebbi
• Category: NGO Jobs
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Description:

The specific research objectives are as follows:

• To assess the feasibility and acceptability of the hybrid model
• To evaluate the impact of the hybrid model on malaria vaccination coverage, timeliness of vaccination, vaccine-preventable malaria parasitological outcomes, caregiver outcomes (vaccine awareness, knowledge and perceptions) and utilization of non-vaccine malaria prevention interventions
• To assess the costs associated with implementing the interventions.

Purpose of the Assignment

• The purpose of the assignment is to engage research consultants that will conduct quantitative surveys of an hybrid vaccination schedule with different delivery approaches.

Scope of Assignment

• The overall objective of this consultancy is to support MC in generating evidence for an effective hybrid model of malaria vaccine delivery in highly seasonal malaria transmission settings.
• This involves conducting quantitative survey to evaluate the impact of implementing the hybrid malaria vaccine immunization with different delivery approaches on malaria vaccination coverage, timeliness of vaccination, vaccine-preventable malaria parasitological outcomes, caregiver outcomes (vaccine awareness, knowledge and perceptions) and utilization of non-vaccine malaria prevention interventions.

Methodology:

• This will involve a three-arm non-randomized controlled study based on repeated cluster-random sampling of households and eligible children before and after the introduction of the interventions.
• Study arm units will be three (3) local government areas (LGAs) in Kebbi state while cluster sampling unit will be defined at an administrative unit below the LGA level, such as health facility catchment areas, villages or census enumeration areas.
• The primary and secondary outcomes to be measured are listed below:
  • Primary outcomes:
    • Vaccination coverage
    • Incidence of parasitologically-confirmed clinical malaria episodes among vaccine-eligible children using enhanced passive case surveillance.
  • Secondary outcomes:
    • Proportion of age-eligible children receiving 1/2/3 doses in the priming series
    • Timeliness of vaccination dosing among children who received at least one malaria vaccine dose
    • Occurrence of malaria severity and hospitalization, among vaccine-eligible children
    • Caregivers’ awareness, knowledge and perception of the malaria vaccine
    • Coverage and utilization of non-vaccine malaria prevention services (e.g. SMC, ITNs)
• Data for the two primary outcomes (vaccination coverage and parasitologically-confirmed malaria episodes) as well as secondary outcomes of interest under Objective 2 will be collected through two waves of household surveys.
• The first survey wave will be conducted at baseline (shortly before the start of the interventions), while the second (endline) wave will be carried out six months after the start of the interventions.
• The survey questionnaire will be developed in line with Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) standards, which will also allow for the collection of data pertaining to child, caregiver and household-level sociodemographic characteristics in each survey wave.

Specific Tasks for Research Assistants:

• Attend physical training on data collection and survey methods conducted by Research Team lead
• Conduct interviews in selected households using SurveyCTO
• Follow confidentiality and security procedures to ensure participants’ privacy is protected.
• Ensure the integrity of data during collection and upload
• Upload data on the SurveyCTO platform to server

Deliverables for Research Assistants:

• Dataset of completed interviews submitted.

Requirements
Personnel Specifications – Research Assistants:

• A minimum of degree (BSC/HND) in Public Health, Social Sciences and Health related discipline
• At least 2 years’ experience in conducting public health research, particularly data collection for quantitative research
• Experience in the use of modern technology in research – use of phone for data collection, use of data collection tools (eg surveyCTO)
• Ability to speak both English and local language (eg Hausa)
• Familiarity with and respect for the tradition and culture of the locality
• Familiarity with terrain of the locality
• Availability for the whole period of the assignment.
• Must not be a staff of Government.

Research Team Lead (Quantitative), Senior National Consultant

Specifications:

• Full Time
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND
• Location: Kebbi | Nigeria. See other Jobs in Kebbi
• Category: NGO Jobs
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Description:

The specific research objectives are as follows:

• To assess the feasibility and acceptability of the hybrid model
• To evaluate the impact of the hybrid model on malaria vaccination coverage, timeliness of vaccination, vaccine-preventable malaria parasitological outcomes, caregiver outcomes (vaccine awareness, knowledge and perceptions) and utilization of non-vaccine malaria prevention interventions
• To assess the costs associated with implementing the interventions.

Purpose of the Assignment

• The purpose of the assignment is to engage research consultants who will conduct quantitative surveys of a hybrid vaccination schedule with different delivery approaches.

Scope of Assignment

• The overall objective of this consultancy is to support MC in generating evidence for an effective hybrid model of malaria vaccine delivery in highly seasonal malaria transmission settings.
• This involves conducting a quantitative survey to evaluate the impact of implementing the hybrid malaria vaccine immunization with different delivery approaches on malaria vaccination coverage, timeliness of vaccination, vaccine-preventable malaria parasitological outcomes, caregiver outcomes (vaccine awareness, knowledge and perceptions) and utilization of non-vaccine malaria prevention interventions.

Methodology

• This will involve a three-arm non-randomized controlled study based on repeated cluster-random sampling of households and eligible children before and after the introduction of the interventions. Study arm units will be three (3) local government areas (LGAs) in Kebbi state, while cluster sampling units will be defined at an administrative unit below the LGA level, such as health facility catchment areas, villages or census enumeration areas. The primary and secondary outcomes to be measured are listed below:
• Primary outcomes:
  • Vaccination coverage
  • Incidence of parasitologically-confirmed clinical malaria episodes among vaccine-eligible children using enhanced passive case surveillance.
• Secondary outcomes:
  • Proportion of age-eligible children receiving 1/2/3 doses in the priming series
  • Timeliness of vaccination dosing among children who received at least one malaria vaccine dose
  • Occurrence of malaria severity and hospitalization, among vaccine-eligible children
  • Caregivers’ awareness, knowledge and perception of the malaria vaccine
  • Coverage and utilization of non-vaccine malaria prevention services (e.g. SMC, ITNs)
• Data for the two primary outcomes (vaccination coverage and parasitologically-confirmed malaria episodes) as well as secondary outcomes of interest under Objective 2 will be collected through two waves of household surveys. The first survey wave will be conducted at baseline (shortly before the start of the interventions), while the second (endline) wave will be carried out six months after the start of the interventions. The survey questionnaire will be developed in line with Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) standards, which will also allow for the collection of data pertaining to child, caregiver and household-level sociodemographic characteristics in each survey wave.

Specific Tasks
Specific Tasks for Research Team Lead:

• Provide technical oversight for the implementation of the quantitative aspect in tandem with the project research protocol.
• Provide an inception report detailing the identification and recruitment methodology of the survey participants, data analysis plan and timelines for accomplishing the tasks
• Liaise with the Project manager to obtain the necessary research tools.
• Participate in the pre-test and finalization process for the survey questionnaires
• Develop and review the supervision checklist that will guide supervisors during data collection
• Develop an agenda for the training of the field supervisors and research assistants
• Facilitate the training activity of the research assistants and supervisors on the use of the research tools.
• Ensure that the surveys are accurately conducted according to standard international best practices.
• Ensure anonymity of respondents and develop a relationship of trust and a safe space during the survey exercises with participants.
• Follow confidentiality and security procedures to ensure participants’ privacy is protected.
• Ensure the integrity of data from collection to storage.
• Download, compile, analyze all data sets into a single dataset
• Interpret the analyzed data and submit a technical report highlighting key findings and recommendations

Deliverables for Research Team Lead:

• Inception report detailing the identification and recruitment methodology of the survey participants, data analysis plan and timelines for accomplishing the tasks
• Training agenda
• Training delivery guide, stating quality parameters for the delivery
• Supervisory checklist
• Raw dataset
• Cleaned dataset
• STATA dofile
• Data analysis plan (Dummy tables)
• Preliminary analysis outputs
• Final survey report (narrative format & PowerPoint format)
• Consultancy report

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Qualifications and Requirements:

Research Team Lead:

• MSc in Public Health, Demography, Statistics, or other related disciplines with at least 8 years’ post-qualification experience
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in public health research methodology while working on donor-funded public health projects.
• Excellent statistical analysis skills, including familiarity with software such as SurveyCTO, STATA and other statistical software.
• Demonstrable report writing skills
• Excellent skills in in MS Office software package.
• Availability for the whole period of the assignment.
• Ability to demonstrate good facilitation skills
• Must not be a staff member of the Government
• Results-oriented attitude to work and ability to give attention to details.
• Self-motivated, team player, but also able to work independently.
• Meets tight deadlines and is able to work under pressure.

Field Supervisor – Quantitative Survey

Specifications:

• Full Time
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND
• Location: Kebbi | Nigeria. See other Jobs in Kebbi
• Category: NGO Jobs
• Job Alerts: To receive Job Alerts on WhatsApp, Click HERE

Description:

• To assess the feasibility and acceptability of the hybrid model
• To evaluate the impact of the hybrid model on malaria vaccination coverage, timeliness of vaccination, vaccine-preventable malaria parasitological outcomes, caregiver outcomes (vaccine awareness, knowledge and perceptions) and utilization of non-vaccine malaria prevention interventions
• To assess the costs associated with implementing the interventions.

Purpose of the Assignment

• The purpose of the assignment is to engage research consultants that will conduct quantitative surveys of an hybrid vaccination schedule with different delivery approaches.

Scope of Assignment

• The overall objective of this consultancy is to support MC in generating evidence for an effective hybrid model of malaria vaccine delivery in highly seasonal malaria transmission settings.
• This involves conducting quantitative survey to evaluate the impact of implementing the hybrid malaria vaccine immunization with different delivery approaches on malaria vaccination coverage, timeliness of vaccination, vaccine-preventable malaria parasitological outcomes, caregiver outcomes (vaccine awareness, knowledge and perceptions) and utilization of non-vaccine malaria prevention interventions.

Methodology

• This will involve a three-arm non-randomized controlled study based on repeated cluster-random sampling of households and eligible children before and after the introduction of the interventions.
• Study arm units will be three (3) local government areas (LGAs) in Kebbi state while cluster sampling unit will be defined at an administrative unit below the LGA level, such as health facility catchment areas, villages or census enumeration areas.
• The primary and secondary outcomes to be measured are listed below:

Primary outcomes:

• Vaccination coverage
• Incidence of parasitologically-confirmed clinical malaria episodes among vaccine-eligible children using enhanced passive case surveillance.

Secondary outcomes:

• Proportion of age-eligible children receiving 1/2/3 doses in the priming series
• Timeliness of vaccination dosing among children who received at least one malaria vaccine dose
• Occurrence of malaria severity and hospitalization, among vaccine-eligible children
• Caregivers’ awareness, knowledge and perception of the malaria vaccine
• Coverage and utilization of non-vaccine malaria prevention services (e.g. SMC, ITNs).
• Data for the two primary outcomes (vaccination coverage and parasitologically-confirmed malaria episodes) as well as secondary outcomes of interest under Objective 2 will be collected through two waves of household surveys.
• The first survey wave will be conducted at baseline (shortly before the start of the interventions), while the second (endline) wave will be carried out six months after the start of the interventions.
• The survey questionnaire will be developed in line with Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) standards, which will also allow for the collection of data pertaining to child, caregiver and household-level sociodemographic characteristics in each survey wave.

Specific Tasks

• Attend physical training on data collection and survey methods conducted by Research Team lead
• Provide supportive supervision for data collectors using appropriate supervision checklist
• Oversee data collection process, including logistics and community entry and mobilization
• Follow confidentiality and security procedures to ensure participants’ privacy is protected.
• Ensure the integrity of data during collection and upload
• Provide necessary information to clean data
• Write a report on the data collection process, outlining the best practices, the lessons learnt, challenges, achievements and recommendations.

Deliverables

• Supervision schedule developed and submitted
• Datasets of interviews are electronically upload ensured
• Process report on research activities are submitted.

Personnel Specification

• Bachelor’s Degree in public health, Global Health, Sociology, Anthropology, Research Methods or a related social science discipline
• At least 5 years’ extensive experience in a research role with an excellent understanding of quantitative research approaches while working on donor-funded public health projects.
• Experience in the use of modern technology in research – use of phone for data collection, use of data collection tools (eg surveyCTO)
• Demonstrable understanding of stakeholders’ engagement in relation to overcoming the barriers as well as approaches of effectively communicating with broad stakeholders such as state & LGA decision-makers and community beneficiaries.
• Ability to speak both English and local language (eg Hausa)
• Familiarity with and respect for the tradition and culture of the locality
• Familiarity with terrain of the locality
• Excellent skills in MS Office software package.
• Availability for the whole period of the assignment.
• Must not be a staff of Government.

Research Team Lead, Qualitative (Senior National Consultant)

Specifications:

• Full Time
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND
• Location: Kebbi | Nigeria. See other Jobs in Kebbi
• Category: NGO Jobs
• Job Alerts: To receive Job Alerts on WhatsApp, Click HERE

Description:

Purpose of the Assignment

• The purpose of the assignment is to engage research consultants that will conduct qualitative surveys (FGDs and KIIs).

Scope of Assignment

• The overall objective of this consultancy is to support MC in generating evidence for an effective hybrid model of malaria vaccine delivery in highly seasonal malaria transmission settings.
• This involves conducting qualitative survey to assess the feasibility and acceptability of implementing the hybrid malaria vaccine immunization with different delivery approaches.

Methodology:

• The qualitative survey will draw on a framework of constructs important in feasibility studies described by Proctor et al (2011) to develop topic guides and areas of questioning for both Focus Group Discussions and Key Informant Interviews.
• The qualitative survey will be conducted across 3LGAs in Kebbi state where the project is being implemented.
• The study will employ a purposive sampling strategy to maximize the range and diversity of the participants, ensuring that we have a diversity of participants across criteria which may influence SMC and EPI programming.
• Furthermore, the KIIs component of the qualitative research will be conducted either virtually or in-person among two (2) national, two (2) sub-national level policy makers, two (2) program managers and 12 health workers – four (4) from each LGA (inclusive of LGA-level malaria and immunization lead amongst others) that have experience and understanding of the SMC and EPI programs (2 + 2 + 2 + 12 = 18 KIIs).
• Two groups of FGDs will be conducted with local leaders, fathers and caregivers of children age 5-20 months in each LGA (2 X 3 X 3 = 18 FGDs), will be conducted in person (face-to-face) in groups of 10 -12 participants and will take place in a communal space in participant’s communities.
• The six (6) interviewers to be recruited will form 3 groups/teams (two (2) persons per group/team). One group/team to conduct 2 interviews per day. The 3 groups to conduct 6 interviews per day. The 36 interviews (18 FGDs and 18 KIIs = 36 interviews) will be conducted in 6 days.
• For the transcription/translation, assuming an interview was conducted in a local language, one person will transcribe and then translate such record as one day level-of-effort. In such situation, the six interviewers will transcribe and translate 36 recordings in 6 days, making a total of 12 days’ work for the six interviewers.
• However, where an interview was conducted in English Language, two recordings will be transcribed by the research assistant for one (1) day level-of-effort.
• All the interviews and FGDs will be conducted by local researchers. A second research assistant will be present to take notes and record observations.
• If the participants consent to audio recording, the interviews and discussions will be recorded and transcribed.

The Key Outcomes (Domains) To Be Measured Are
Acceptability:

• Health worker (HW) satisfaction and adherence to hybrid approach.
• Community, HW perception of benefits and risks of hybrid model.

Appropriateness:

• Community, HW perceptions of fit/relevance of seasonal messaging to vaccine uptake improvement.

Practicality & Sustainability:

• Health systems capacity to implement hybrid approach supply management, other relevant infrastructure)
• Perception of ease of maintenance or routinization of hybrid model.

Adoption & Fidelity:

• HW and CHWs’ uptake of hybrid approach and implementation consistency.

Specific Tasks

• Provide technical oversight for implementation of the qualitative aspect in tandem with the project research protocol.
• Develop the study protocol and field manual
• Support the translation and back translation of field guides and questionnaires to the local language (Hausa).
• Support preparatory activities for training and for field data collection.
• Train all research personnel in the qualitative survey on conducting the data collection process.
• Liaise with the Project manager to obtain necessary research tools.
• Liaise with the Project manager to prepare a list of key informants and FGD participants and arrange for interviews and FGDs
• Promptly raise any methodological question arising during the data collection process which may affect adherence to the research protocol.
• Coordinate the data collection process and assign daily tasks to interviewers.
• Lead the scheduling of interviews and FGDs.
• Conduct key informants’ interviews
• Coordinate the organization of FGD sessions.
• Prepare data analysis plan for FGDs and KIIs
• Oversee recording transcription and translation.
• Collate and summarize all transcriptions
• Conduct data analysis and report writing
• Collate and report daily issues and challenges to the Project Manager and the Principal Investigator.
• Collate and submit all assessment materials including soft copies of all FGDs and KII data sets.
• Ensure that all recording devices are accounted for.
• Take responsibility for compliance with confidentiality and security procedures to ensure respondent privacy is protected.
• Prepare and submit the report in MS word and a summary of key findings in MS PowerPoint slides.

Deliverables:

• Develop the study protocol and field manual.
• Code book.
• Translation of research tools into Hausa.
• Data analysis and quality assurance plan.
• Preliminary analysis outputs.
• Final assessment report submitted (narrative format & power point format).
• Scheduling of KIIs and FGD.
• Incident log.
• Summary daily reports.
• Final supervision report.
• Consultancy report.

Personnel Specification
Essential:

• PhD in Social, Behavioural or Health Sciences.
• At least 10 years experience in conduct and management of qualitative studies.
• At least 10 years experience in supervising qualitative research.
• Demonstrated expertise in rigorous qualitative research design, data collection and data analysis techniques
• Strong analytical skills and ability to clearly demonstrate synthesize and present findings, draw practical conclusions, make recommendations and to prepare well-written reports in a timely manner
• Experience in leading evaluations, surveys and analysis is highly desirable.
• Practical knowledge of community entry & mobilization techniques.
• Experience in the use of qualitative statistical softwares such as Nvivo and atlas Ti etc
• Demonstrable experience in data transcription
• Computer literacy to be able to work on electronic data collection applications.
• Good facilitation skills.
• Strong written and verbal skills in Hausa, preferably mother tongue.
• Strong written and verbal skills in English.

Desired:

• Good communication skills and experience in participatory methodology.
• Innovative, motivated, and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Certification in M&E will be a plus.
• Resident in Kebbi state.
• Mother tongue Hausa.

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