DEADLINE: 11TH FEBRUARY, 2024
GAVI ALLIANCE (GAVI)
REQUEST FOR QUOTATION FOR CONSULTANCY OPPORTUNITY FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES TO SUPPORT NIGERIA SUPPLEMENTARY IMMUNISATION ACTIVITIES
1. Background and Introduction
Gavi Alliance’s (“Gavi”) mission is to save children’s lives and protect people’s health by increasing access to immunisation in poor countries.
Gavi is a unique organisation that aligns public and private resources in a global effort to create greater access to the benefits of immunisation. It does this with precision and in creative, innovative ways to ensure that donor contributions efficiently save lives and help build self-sufficiency in the world’s poorest communities and regions.
For more information, please visit the Gavi website: http://www.gavi.org/about/mission
2. Background of the team and purpose of the role
Gavi Country Programmes Delivery (CPD) – Nigeria Country Team (CT) has identified the need for a temporary and embedded consultant to support the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) to effectively plan and implement vaccine campaigns with a focus on campaign effectiveness and integration. Gavi supports the NPHCDA through financial and technical mechanisms to implement strategies to introduce and scale up use of vaccines in Nigeria.
The Supplementary Immunisation Activities consultant is expected to support NPHCDA under leadership of the Director, Disease Control and Immunisation to plan for, implement, monitor/supervise, and document prioritised vaccine programme activities in Nigeria including Big Catch-Up campaign, polio and non-polio supplementary immunisation activities (NPSIA), and introduction of Malaria and HPV vaccines with a focus on integration, cross learning, and institutional capacity building. The consultant should monitor progress towards country targets for supplementary immunisation activities and advise NPHCDA and partners on related technical and programmatic components to improve performance.
3. Description of Services:
The consultant will be embedded within NPHCDA working though the NPSIA, NERICC and other relevant working groups to plan, support implementation and monitoring of supplementary immunisation activity strengthening and vaccine introductions. The consultant will work with partners at national and state level, and through NPHCDA, also work with States to follow up on key activities agreed upon by Government and Gavi.
4. Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Specific duties include:
- Provide capacity building support and skills transfer to strengthen supplementary immunisation activity performance management, under the direction of Director, Disease Control and Immunisation
- Development of strategies to support smart integration of SIA activities and vaccine introductions, including cross learning from polio and non-polio teams.
- Coordinate with NPHCDA and partners on the review of Nigeria Big Catch-Up plans for submission to Gavi and provide technical expertise to support implementation plans.
- Support NPHCDA to develop institutional mechanisms to ensure cross learning and enable integration across Polio, NPSIA, and NERICC teams for vaccine introductions and campaigns.
- Support planning and strategy development for new vaccine introductions and supplementary vaccine activity planning for 2025-2028 through Full Portfolio Planning process.
Note: The essential functions listed in this section are not exhaustive of the job responsibilities; other duties may be assigned consistently with the department needs.
If you wish to apply, please visit our Careers webpage and apply by sending your application to procurement@gavi.org with the title 006-2024-GAVI-RFQ – ” TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES TO SUPPORT NIGERIA SUPPLEMENTARY IMMUNISATION ACTIVITIES ” before the closing date of 11 February 2024.
