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State Security Consultant, Malaria Consortium – 9 Openings

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Established in 2003, Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organisations specialising in the prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable populations. Our mission is to save lives and improve health in Africa and Asia, through evidence-based programmes that combat targeted diseases and promote universal health coverage.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: State Security Consultant

Locations: Abuja (FCT), Bauchi, Borno, Kebbi, Kogi, Nasarawa, Oyo, Plateau & Sokoto
Employment Type: Temporary

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Country and programme background

  • In 2013, WHO introduced the SMC strategy to prevent malaria among children aged 3 – 59 months in areas where malaria transmission is highly seasonal. The National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) led stratification exercise in 2020 increased the number of states eligible for seasonal malaria transmission (SMC) implementation from the nine (9) in the Sahel zone with marked seasonal malaria transmission and most of the disease burden occurring during a distinct rainy season, to 21, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Currently, Malaria Consortium has been supporting SMC implementation in 14 of these 21 states/territories with funding support from the Global Fund (for Jigawa, Kaduna, Yobe, Kano and Niger) and MC/Philanthropic Funding (for Bauchi, Borno, Kebbi, Kogi, Nasarawa, Oyo, Plateau, Sokoto, and the FCT).
  • SMC involves the administration of monthly treatment courses of a combination of antimalarial drugs (sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine/SPAQ) with the objective of maintaining therapeutic antimalarial drug concentrations in the blood throughout the period of transmission (rainy season) to prevent malaria. This preventive treatment requires a large number and variety of personnel involved at the state, LGA, health facility and community levels for four/five cycles, usually between June and October to coincide with the peak period of malaria transmission.
  • For the 2025 SMC round, more than one hundred thousand and fifty (150,000) personnel would be involved in the states Malaria Consortium SMC supporting SMC, where more than 18m eligible children would be reached with antimalaria medicines. While about one hundred and forty (140,000) are the frontline service providers – community drug distributors, town announcers and lead mothers who are resident within the communities, about twenty thousand (10,000) supervisors (national, state and LGA) are non-residents/indigenes of the communities and will be involved in travels to these communities for SMC activities, including training, last mile distribution, daily supervision and reverse logistics.
  • and SSPs and the use of a combination of key informant interviews (KIIs), administration of questionnaires and consensus meeting with Malaria Consortium staff at country, state and LGA offices; and stakeholders from the states and LGAs, especially the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Officers to obtain the required data and information. These would be followed by a consensus meeting involving the consultants, relevant Malaria Consortium, state and LGA personnel would be held to agree on the relevance, currency and validity of the obtained data/information.
  • Guided by the grading system developed in 2022 (and reviewed in 2025) from the Malaria Consortium Security Adaptation Guideline, Safety and Security Policy and Framework, and findings from the SRA, grade the wards, LGAs and states into red (high), amber (medium) and green (low) areas; to enable Malaria Consortium top management categorize the LGAs and states into:
    • High security risk/hard-to-reach (HTR) areas.
    • Medium risk area; and
    • Low risk area.
  • The assignment would require a desk review of existing security documents such as SSPs, SRAs, weekly security updates and any report related to the supported states and the FCT present security situation. Visits to be undertaken to selected communities, wards and LGA/Area Councils of interest to enable a comprehensive review of the security situation within the supported states/FCT which will enrich the reviews. Furthermore, the consultants will support the designate SSFPs to carry out rapid assessments based on designed questionnaires, the outcome of which, will also inform on the reviews. Remote support will also be provided in close collaboration with the Malaria Consortium Security Manager/Officers based in the country and zonal offices. The data will be collected using SurveyCTO; while the GIS coordinates will also be obtained and data analyzed to produce the SSPs and SOPs to support SMC implementation in all security profiling categories for all the supported states and FCT.
  • In addition, the engaged TAs would support the Country Operations Manager (in the country office) and SSFPs (for the states) to assess the different office locations and advise accordingly.
  • A debriefing meeting will be held at state level to validate all collated information with the respective SSFPs and Malaria Consortium’s Security Managers before submission to the Country Operation Manager, Programme Director and Regional Risk Programme Manager’s review and input before finalization and sign-off by the West and Central Africa Programmes Director.

Requirements
The State Consultant will be a security management expert with experience in security assessments and risk mitigation planning. Other requirements include:

  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in the context of a complex and challenging operating environments.
  • Demonstrable experience in security assessment / evaluation.
  • Good report writing skills and communication with stakeholders; and experience working in highly resource-constrained environments
  • For this position, previous working experience with MC and in SMC are added advantages.

Application Closing Date
Thursday, 30th January, 2025. (5:00pm)

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online for Bauch, Borno and Nasarawa States

Click here to apply online for Oyo, Plateau and Kebbi States

Click here to apply online 
for Kogi & Sokoto States and the FCT

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