Consultant – Radio Program Writers 277 views1 applications

Breakthrough ACTION ignites collective action and encourages people to adopt healthier behaviors—from using modern contraceptive methods and sleeping under bed nets to being tested for HIV—by forging, testing, and scaling up new and hybrid approaches to social and behavior change (SBC).

Firmly grounded in proven practices, Breakthrough ACTION works in partnership with governments, civil society, and communities around the world to implement creative and sustainable SBC programming, nurture SBC champions, mainstream new techniques and technologies, and advocate strategic and sustained investment in SBC.

Consultant – Radio Program Writers

Details:

Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria hereby seeks proposals from individuals or companies with experience in writing radio drama and factual program to design content for a Hausa radio program.

BA-Nigeria works with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), National and State Malaria Elimination Programs (NMEP/SMEP) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Implementing Partners (IP) to develop comprehensive, costed, state-level Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) programs for malaria, family planning, tuberculosis (TB) and Maternal and Neonatal Child Health Plus Nutrition (MNCH+N) in Nigeria.

The consultants will use a pre-existing creative brief to design and create refreshingly new and exciting radio spots scripts on several thematic areas for the project-MNCH+N, Family Planning, TB and Malaria.

Specifically, the consultant will be responsible for writing:

• Scripts for 26-episode radio program (including drama and factual information). Each episode 25 minutes.
• The consultant will sign a MOU not to share or use any of the final products of the work with others and not to use them for any other purpose outside this scope of work.
• Deliverable: 26 Exciting radio program scripts on the MNCH+N thematic area.
• Consultation period: 6 weeks (March 11th – 22nd April 2019)
• Supervision and Technical Oversight: The consultants will report directly to BA-Nigeria Program Officer II-Media

Terms of Payment:

• Payment is on daily rate
• The consultant will be paid 100% of the consultancy upon satisfactory delivery of services.
• 5% Withholding Tax will also be deducted from the total value of consultancy fees and paid to appropriate tax authorities on behalf of the Consultant.

Timeline:

The Consultant must provide final deliverables by or before 22nd of April 2019

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated professional writing for radio
• Proven ability to write engaging content for radio (both dramatic and factual info)
• Experience developing radio content-drama and factual for public health related projects
• Experience developing social and behavior change content
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Access to a laptop to accomplish the scope of work
• Availability during the consultation period

Method of Application

To apply please follow these directions exactly:

Send one document – Cover letter and CV ONLY on or before 5:00pm Abuja time, January 31 2019 to: [email protected]

The document should be a cover letter first, with bullet points in bold on how the candidate meets the minimum qualifications. Following the cover letter, in the same document, should be the candidates CV.

Interested Consultants must also attach script samples (in English or Hausa) and portfolio of previous works with references. Additionally, soft copy attachments or links to audio files (English or Hausa) that demonstrate the applicants work (would be preferred. These links should be in the attached any of the attached documents but not the body of the mail.

Interested Consultants should also include financial quotation for the services to be rendered

All attached document should have the candidate’s full name as part of the document name e.g. Yanusa Hassan’s Financial Quotation.

Candidates should use the following format in the subject line of their email submission “Application for BA-N Spots Writers” followed by candidate’s name—. For example, if a candidate named Grace were applying for the position, the subject line for the submission MUST read: “Application for BA-N Consultant Spot Writer Grace”. Any emails without this exact subject line format will be immediately discarded.

3.     Only final candidates will be contacted for further engagement

Note: Proposals will be scored on the completeness and quality of the technical proposal, quality of the proposed work plan, quality of the budget and accompanying narrative, and relevant experience.