Job Purpose:
The primary goal is to conduct a comprehensive financial analysis of the national strategic direction for nurses and midwives (NSDNM2026-2030) in Nigeria and develop a multi-year costed operational action plan. The final deliverables will enable stakeholders to understand the financial expenses required to implement the NSDNM (2026-2030), identify funding gaps, and map funders to secure sustainable financing.
Scope of Work:
- The Health Financing/Costing Consultant will facilitate the development of a five (5) year costed operational action plan for the NSDNM2026-2030, providing robust data for budgeting, tracking funding gaps, and enabling donor engagement or financial sustainability.
- S/He is expected to carry out the following assignment:
- The Health Financing/Costing Consultant will facilitate the development of a five (5) year costed operational action plan for the NSDNM2026-2030, providing robust data for budgeting, tracking funding gaps, and enabling donor engagement or financial sustainability.
S/He is expected to carry out the following assignment:
- Situational Analysis: Review the finalized NSDNM2026-2030, national health workforce strategy, the midwifery model of care, health financing landscape, current domestic and external spending on reproductive and maternal health, and baseline workforce capacity.
- Costing Framework Development: Design a transparent, multi-year costing model capturing direct programmatic costs (training, deployment, retention), capital expenditures (equipment, infrastructure), and operational overhead.
- Stakeholder Workshops: Facilitate workshops and key informant interviews with the NSDNM Technical Working Group and the Federal Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, donor agencies, and midwifery associations to validate assumptions and gather missing data.
- Reporting: Lead the drafting of the Design and Validation Workshop reports workshops, including the comprehensive financial narrative report of the costed operational plan.
The expected outputs are:
- Preliminary Costing Model (Week 1): Draft budgeting tool with initial estimates including detailed objective and activity mapping.
- Design Workshop (Week 2): Presentation of draft costing model and assumptions including budget categorization to key stakeholders for feedback and consensus building.
- Draft Costed Operational Plan (Week 3): including narrative report detailing operational breakdown by pillar, implementation roadmap, multi-year funding requirements, financial gap analysis, donor mapping and engagement matrix, and resource mobilization action plan including risk/mitigation.
- Validation Workshop (Week 4): Presentation of second draft costed operational plan to key stakeholders for feedback and consensus building.
- Final Costed NSDNM (2026-2030) Operational Plan (Week5): including a comprehensive narrative of the context and strategic alignment, implementation roadmap, budget breakdowns, financial gap analysis, donor mapping and engagement strategy, resource mobilization action plan, and risk mitigation.
Duration and working schedule: The duration of this consultancy is five (5) weeks.
- Place where services are to be delivered: The consultancy will be remote, with two stakeholder in-person and virtual workshops
- Supervisory arrangements: The Costing Consultant will report directly to the Gender/SRHR Specialist, under the supervision of the Technical Specialist, Reproductive and Maternal Health at the country office. S/He would also have technical guidance from the Director of Nursing Services, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
- Monitoring and progress control, including reporting requirements: Weekly review meetings will be held to assess progress and resolve challenges.
- Expected travel: Minimum travel, expected.
Required expertise, qualifications and competencies, including language requirements:
- She/he must possess a Masters degree in Health Economics, Public Health, Public Financial Management, or a related field.
- At least two (2) years of relevant experience in costing health sector strategic plans, ideally with a focus on human resources for health (HRH) or maternal and reproductive health.
- Proven proficiency with global health economic modeling tools (e.g., OneHealth Tool, LiST, EQUIST).
- Experience working with UN agencies, government, NGOs, or youth/civil society groups with demonstrated success in building and sustaining national advocacy coalitions.
- Knowledge of Nigeria’s health system and services, policies, and socio-cultural context.
- Excellent analytical, stakeholder facilitation and communication skills.
- Strong drafting and writing skills with attention to detail.
- Computer literacy and proficiency in Microsoft Office and digital collaboration tools are mandatory.
Inputs / services to be provided by UNFPA or implementing partner (e.g. support services, office space, equipment), if
applicable:
UNFPA shall provide the following:
- Logistic support for travel(s) to workshop venues in line with UNFPA Travel Policy.
Other relevant information or special conditions, if any:
The Costing Consultant will be paid according to the payment schedule below:
- An initial 30% of the consultancy fees upon presentation of the draft costed operational plan.
- A final payment of 70% of the fees at the submission, and clearance by UNFPA and FMOHSW, of the finalised Costed NSDNM (2026-2030) Operational Plan.
Languages:
Required Competencies:
Values:
- Exemplifying integrity,
- Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system,
- Embracing cultural diversity,
- Embracing change
Core Competencies:
- Achieving results,
- Being accountable,
- Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen,
- Thinking analytically and strategically,
- Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships