Consultation pour l’élaboration d’une stratégie nationale sur la maternité sans risques au Nigeria basé à Abuja.

USAID Momentum Country and Global Leadership Quality of Care (MCGL QoC) project is a multi-year project that provides technical and capacity development assistance (TCDA) to ministries of health and other country partners to expand global leadership and learning and enable government-led partnerships to deliver high-quality, evidence-based interventions that accelerate reductions in maternal, newborn, and child mortality and morbidity. MCGL QOC has a geographic scope restricted to the national level but extended through partners to currently 24 States of Nigeria.

Rationale/Justification
MCGL-QoC wishes to support the Reproductive Health Division of the Department of Family Health; Federal Ministry of Health with the services of a Consultant. He/She will lead the process of developing the Safe Motherhood, End Preventive Maternal Mortality Strategy for Doctors, Nurses/Midwives, Community Health Extension Workers, Program managers, Administrators, Policy makers etc to improve Quality of Care in Nigeria. The scope of the review process would involve the following:

• Review and make inputs to the Zero draft;
•  Adapt/Adopt locally and internationally existing materials/documents;
• National stakeholders’ reviews;
• Finalization and Validation of document;
• Launching and Dissemination.

RATE: NGN 100,000 PER DAY

• Lead the National Safe Motherhood development process• Support Desk review of End Preventive Maternal Mortality Materials
• Support/plan the stakeholders’ consultative analysis meeting
• Orient stakeholders on the processes.
• Articulate and document the identified areas of focus in (d)
• Support/plan meetings to review/finalize the draft National Safe Motherhood

DELIVERABLE

• Draft National Safe Motherhood Strategy document

• University degree, preferably in one of the following: Obstetrics and Gynaecology,Nursing/ Midwifery, Public Health.
• Post-graduate degree in Public Health, in Epidemiology or other related public health fields will be an advantage
• Previous Experience in Adaptation of policy, curriculum etc
• Currently in Clinical Practice
• Certified/LSS Master Trainer is an added advantage
• Public Health Publications on maternal and newborn health
• Good knowledge of MS Office packages, including working knowledge of health data management packages like EPI INFO, etc
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure and collaboratively in a team.
• Advanced level of spoken and written English.

Closing date : August 06^th, 2023

Application process