Technical Advisor – Social Behaviour Change/WASH at sightsavers

• Title: Technical Advisor – Social Behaviour Change/WASH
• Salary: Local terms and conditions apply
• Location: Kaduna, Nigeria
• Contract: Fixed Term Contract until end March 2026 (with a view to extension)
• Hours: Full time – 35 hours per week
• Req ID: 1508

About the role

Sightsavers are currently seeking an experienced social and behaviour change Technical Advisor to join our social behaviour change (SBC) team to support our work to scale up the quality and impact of social behaviour change interventions.

Sightsavers is a lead implementing partner for the multi donor funded Reaching the Last Mile Programme, aimed at elimination of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis. As part of this programme, the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is funding a programme called ELFA: Eliminating LF in Africa. In Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda, ELFA funding will support social behaviour change approaches to promote uptake of mass drug administration, support healthy behaviours to reduce risk of disease transmission, and address stigma and discrimination.

Responsibilities

As the Technical Advisor you will lead and support social and behaviour change activities in NTDs and wider Sightsavers programme areas in Nigeria. The post holder will work with our global SBC teams, design team, country office staff and other stakeholders to lead and support a broad range of social behaviour change analysis, design and implementation.

Further duties include:

Social and Behaviour Change

• Lead on and oversee all social and behaviour change interventions in Sightsavers Nigeria portfolio, with an emphasis on the ELFA related interventions.
• Provide technical advice and support to country office staff and partners on social and behaviour change activities in new and ongoing projects, working in close collaboration with other members of the global SBC team and thematic leads.
• Develop and support the execution of activity plans and budget for social and behaviour change activities.
• Support in the design and development of field assessment and ethnographic protocols and their implementation.
• Support the Global SBC team in analysis of field assessment and ongoing monitoring activities.
• Support the Global SBC team in other country programmes as needed.
• Contribute towards the planning and facilitation of co-creation and design exercises for SBC programs.
• Support implementation and monitoring of programme specific social and behaviour change interventions.

WASH and NTD Coordination

• Lead on and provide technical oversight of all programme activities at national and county levels related to WASH and NTD coordination activities.
• Develop and support the execution of activity plans and budget for WASH and NTDs coordination.
• Support coordination of joint WASH and NTD monitoring activities and development and identification of integrated WASH related monitoring activities.

General

• Share new and creative ideas and perform any other role as assigned by supervisor.
• Building and maintaining working relationships a variety of stakeholders to strengthen opportunities for advocacy and higher visibility, representing Sightsavers and ensure programme information flow.
• Undertake representation of Sightsavers at relevant professional and sector-specific events and as part of international networks and consortia.

Skills and Experience

As the successful candidate you will possess working experience or a postgraduate qualification in a relevant field (social and/or behavioural research methods, public health, social or behaviour sciences or research methods etc), have good knowledge of different social science and/or anthropological research and analysis paradigms and methods, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches, and have a background of working in social and behaviour change analysis and research within or contributing to international development projects in West Africa (both Francophone and Anglophone).