Advancing Health for Humanitarian Support Initiative (AIDHealth Inc.) – hiring Senior Narrative & Gender Analyst (Hybrid)

Advancing Health for Humanitarian Support Initiative aka (AIDHealth Inc.) is a non-religious, not-for-profit organization officially registered with Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in 2024. AIDHealth was founded by a visionary coalition of Nigerian healthcare professionals, public health experts, development practitioners, and diaspora leaders with a mission to bridge systemic gaps in healthcare access for marginalized and displaced populations. Through an integrated, evidence-based approach, AIDHealth Inc., implements cross-cutting programs addressing the root causes of persistent health challenges, particularly poverty, inadequate health infrastructure, and socio-economic disparities. By leveraging innovative healthcare solutions, strategic partnerships, and community-driven interventions, AIDHealth is committed to strengthening health systems and ensuring sustainable, equitable healthcare services for vulnerable populations, especially women, children, and the youth.

AIDHealth bridges the divide between emergency response and resilience-building. The organization leverages Nigeria’s dynamic NGO ecosystem to foster cross-continental collaboration. Headquartered in Nigeria, AIDHealth Inc., operates through strategic regional hubs, partnering with global and local stakeholders to advance health equity, development, and humanitarian nexus interventions …advancing health equity…service without borders.

We are  recruiting to fill the position below:

 Job Title: Senior Narrative & Gender Analyst
Job ID: SL-03

Location: Hybrid
Employment Type: Part-time Expert

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the coding framework (tone, stance, theme, narrative) and the project narrative register.
• Recruit, train and calibrate the Hausa coders to an inter-coder reliability (Krippendorff’s alpha) of 0.80 or higher, and adjudicate disagreements.
• Identify dominant narratives and counter-narratives on GBV, early and forced marriage, and family and social norms.
• Lead narrative analysis for the periodic learning reports and the final report.
• Advise on gender-responsive and trauma-informed framing in all outputs.

Required experience

• Master’s Degree in Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Public Health, Communication or a related field; PhD preferred.
• At least 7 years of professional experience in qualitative or gender research in Northern Nigeria.
• Proven work on GBV or early and forced marriage.
• Codebook development and supervision of coding teams (NVivo, Atlas.ti or similar).
• Native Hausa speaker with fluent English.

Preferred experience:

• Social and behaviour change or entertainment-education programmes.
• Familiarity with behaviour change theory, such as Social Cognitive Theory.

Skills and attributes:

• Trauma-informed practice when handling GBV-related content.
• Strong team leadership and coaching skills.
• Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

Application Deadline 
15th October, 2026.

METHOD OF APPLICATION 
Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications in one PDF to: info@aid-health.org using “SL Application – [Job ID] – [Full Name]” as the subject of the mail.

Candidates should send one PDF containing:

• A CV (maximum 4 pages);
• A one-page cover note;
• One work sample;
• Two referees.

Note

• Engagement depends on the contract being awarded.
• AIDHealth never charges a fee at any stage of recruitment.
• Women and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.