Consultants to Conduct Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention End of Round Programmatic Assessment at Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is an international non-governmental organization supporting relief and development work in over 99 countries around the world.
- CRS programs assist people based on need, regardless of creed, ethnicity, or nationality.
- CRS works through local church and non-church partners to implement its programs, therefore, strengthening and building the capacity of partner organizations is fundamental to the work of CRS.
- CRS re-established its presence in Nigeria in 2000 and currently focuses on health, vulnerable children, agriculture, extractives and governance, and peace-building programming.
We invite applications for the position below:
Job Title:
- Consultant for the 2026 Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention End of Round Programmatic Assessment (SMC-EORA)
Locations:
- Adamawa, Kaduna, Niger and Taraba
Employment Type: Contract
Project Background
CRS has a long and rich history of collaboration with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund).
In Nigeria, CRS has been a Co-Principal Recipient (PR) of the Global Fund Malaria grant since January 2017.
- As a Co-PR, CRS partnered with its sub-recipients, the National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP), the State Malaria Elimination Program (SMEP), and other stakeholders to coordinate and implement Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention since 2018.
- For the 2024-2026 Grant Cycle 7 (GC7) of the Global Fund Malaria grant, CRS has remained a Co-PR with NMEP, strengthening the synergy and collaboration with NMEP to improve access, efficiency, and impact of quality malaria services in the 13 GF-supported states.
- These critical interventions include malaria treatment and prevention services such as facility and community-based case management of malaria, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), ITN campaign/Routine distribution, Integrated ITN and SMC campaign, social and behaviour change activities, and routine M&E activities.
- CRS implements through three sub-recipients – Society for Family Health (SFH), Malaria Consortium (MC), and Management Sciences for Health (MSH) to support SMC implementation in 8 states (Adamawa, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Niger, Taraba, and Yobe) in collaboration with the NMEP who provides leadership and ICT4D support for the campaigns.
Scope
CRS is looking for four (4) Consultants, one for each of the following states: Adamawa, Kaduna, Niger and Taraba.
The consultants should have experience in public health research and will be responsible for conducting an end-of-round assessment of the 2026 SMC campaigns.
- The assessment will focus on evaluating coverage and implementation quality.
- The scope of work is to carry out data collection, analysis, interpretation and development of the End of Round (EoR) programmatic assessment report.
- The consultant will train supervisors, data collectors, oversees data collection process and carry out the actual supervision of data collection using an electronic platform in the state.
- The EoR evaluation will be conducted in four (4) states as listed above where SMC is being implemented in 4 cycles.
- The aim of the EoR evaluation is to assess SMC coverage and adherence of CDDs to treatment protocol immediately at end of the fourth cycle of treatment.
- Findings will be analysed and any LGA scoring less than 80% will be targeted for corrective measures in their area of poor performance for improvement in subsequent rounds.
- The consultant is also expected to have excellent skills in the design of mobile data collection tools, data visualization, analysis and report writing.
- Therefore, experience with use of Kobo collect/Survey CTO, Tableau/Power BI, SPSS/STATA and programmable software like MySQL is desirable.
The consultant will work with CRS in ensuring SMC data is harnessed in databases, meet quality standard, analysed, reported, and used for programme improvement.
More specifically the consultant will make it possible to:
Assess self-reported SMC coverage among the targeted population Identify the main factors associated with community drug distributors’ visits and treatment administration during the round of SMC.
- Measure adherence to the SMC protocol by the caregivers and distributors (CDDs).
- Highlight the most effective information channel on SMC.
- Measure the degree of information given to mothers/caregivers on what to do in case of adverse reaction to SMC (See details of the evaluation objectives in the SMC end-of-round programmatic assessment National protocol
Requirements
CRS is looking for a consultant with:
Capacity/human resource (experienced survey consultant/specialist) to survey more than one state within the same period.
- At least 3 years of experience in conducting public health research / surveys.
- Previous experience conducting similar community field research/surveys.
- Knowledge of SMC implementation and processes.
Deadline: 6th September, 2026
How to Apply
Interested applicant can apply via this link
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