Consultant - Anchor Advocacy Project at Save the Children Nigeria

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We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:

Job Title: Consultant – End of Project Documentary for Anchor Advocacy Project
Location: Abuja
Total strategy days: 17

Background
With support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Save the Children (SC) Nigeria was commissioned in 2015 to influence and inform policy changes, as well as mobilize communities towards the support for and uptake of Routine Immunization (RI), Nutrition, and Reproductive Maternal, New-born and Child Health (RMNCH) services. The Anchor Grant is a 3-year advocacy project for the purpose creating, promoting and sustaining enabled environment, that will ensure Nigeria is progressing in efforts around maternal and child survival. In Nigeria the project is implemented at the national level, and in 4 states at the subnational level (Gombe, Jigawa, Katsina and Zamfara).

Required Qualifications and Experience
The consultant will be required to have:

5 and above years of experience working in similar field
Extensive experience in producing development work related documentaries for international organisations with the aim of reaching both local and international audiences
Experience in working other international organizations
Local Knowledge of the northern region in Nigeria particularly SC project areas
Excellent technical capacities (state of art filming equipment preferably High Definition) to ensure smooth and high quality production
Additional experience in development communication will be an added advantage

Intellectual Property:

All information pertaining to this project (documentary, audio, digital, cyber, project documents, etc.) belonging to the Client, which the consultant may come into contact with in the performance of his/her, duties under this consultancy shall remain the property of the Client (i.e. Save the Children) who shall have exclusive rights over their use.
Except for purposes of this assignment, the information shall not be disclosed to the public nor used in whatever without written permission of the Client in line with the national and International Copyright Laws applicable.

Contractual arrangements and supervision:

The consultant will be hired under SC’s terms of contract and supervised by the Advocacy and Campaign Unit solely for the purpose of delivering the above outputs, within the agreed time frame.
The consultant will be required to spend 90% of the consultancy time at the project site in the focus areas of SC’s work. A timesheet to record time spent on the consultancy will be filled and signed by the consultant.
Save the Children as the Client shall provide necessary support to the consultant in order to execute the assignment during the duration of the consultancy.

Primary Outcomes

Nigeria requests RMNCH services, ambitious targets (ending all preventable MNC deaths under 5) and indicators, linked to ending all preventable child deaths, are enshrined in post-2015 global development framework (particularly around immunization, family planning and nutrition
Global post-2015 goals/targets relating to maternal and child survival are translated into Nigeria’s national and sub-national targets/strategies/plans/manifestos for 2015 and beyond
Commitments made by the Nigerian government as part of Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) initiative, A Promise Renewed and the Every Newborn Action Plan are honoured
RMNCH services to all children and mothers, particularly marginalised and underserved communities, are prioritized around achieving equity
Commitments on women’s rights and equity (particularly those made at the London Family Planning Summit) are honoured and increasingly respected, costed plans are in place and delivered by the Nigerian government.
Allocative efficiency of health workforce maintained
Costed plans developed and implemented by relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies at National and State levels
International Code on the Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes fully implemented by Nigeria
Domestic resources for nutrition and approval for specific budget lines at national and state levels secured. In particular, at least two Federal MDAs and two state governments budget and expend for Nutrition sensitive and specific interventions
New Routine Immunization Strategic Plan (NRISP 2016+), based on lessons learnt from 2013-15 NRISP, developed, costed and implemented with a strong focus on equity and excluded groups
Implementation framework for the National Health Act developed and a specific percentage of the Basic Health Care fund is agreed and ring-fenced for Immunization services
Functional Cold Chain Equipment made available in every ward in project states
Planned Preventive Maintenance and Repair System for cold chain Equipment developed and institutionalized in each project state
Functional Cold Chain Equipment made available in every ward in project states
Planned Preventive Maintenance and Repair System for cold chain Equipment developed and institutionalized in each project state

Assignment Objective
The end of project video will be a tool for capturing outcomes, best practices, learnings and key achievements for the benefit of SC, and present/ potential donors. It can also be used as an advocacy tool to policy makers, or as a reference material for organizations implementing similar projects or planning to do so. It will also serve as a knowledge management tool in terms of capturing the basic facts, figures and project results.

Specific objective of the assignment is to research, film and produce a creative and engaging documentary showcasing the scope of work of the Anchor Advocacy project in the four implementing states and at the national level: Specifically, the documentary will:

Detail various strategies and tactics the project adopted and their specific outcomes on beneficiaries
Provide evidence of success or otherwise and at the same time, capture opinions of community members (Ward Development Committees) on the project
Document government efforts and plans for taking on or sustaining gains made on the project
Sample opinion of policy and decision makers on what can be done differently

Target Audience

Donors, partner organizations and policy makers at national and sub-national levels

Video Content

The video content will be divided into various spots, based on the thematic streams adopted by the project.
It is assumed that community members and indirect beneficiaries will prefer to speak in the local language (Hausa), the Consultant will provide subtitles in English to ensure non-Hausa speaking audiences are able to understand and comprehend.

Strategy & Duration Activity, Time Frame, Persons Responsible:

Briefing meeting on the project; meeting to include material identification, studying/reading, selecting angles of developing the script etc.
2 days
Consultant, CO project leads