Content Reviewer and Graphic Designer at Center for Clinical Care and Clinical Research

The Center for Clinical Care and Clinical Research is an indigenous, non-profit organization registered in Nigeria in 2010 to promote best practices in health care delivery, medical training, and research using locally adapted models of health systems strengthening.

Job Title: Content Reviewer and Graphic Designer

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Akwa Ibom

Scope of Work: Consultancy to Finalized CCCRN Standard Operating Procedures Manual for Integrated Child Health and Social Service Award Lot 1

Background / Rationale

• Integrated Child Health and Social Service Award (ICHSSA) is a – five year, USAID – funded project designed to reduce the impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Akwa Ibom and Cross River states respectively.
• The project is scaling up to include Bayelsa State from October, 2021. ICHSSA1 is implemented by Center for Clinical Care and Clinical Research Nigeria (CCCRN) in partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), alongside other local resource experts.
• The ICHSSA will ensure that OVC are cared for and protected by their households, communities, local and state governments to reduce their vulnerability to HIV.
• The project will also ensure that communities promote child and family friendly, gender and HIV sensitive cultural norms and practices. 
• ICHSSA 1 is seeking the services of a highly qualified book content reviewer consultant to review and presents the content and structure of the ICHSSA 1 SOP manual as objectively as possible highlighting key elements of the work.
• We are also looking to hire a Graphic Designer that can create engaging and brand-compliant designs for the proposed ICHSSA 1 Standard Operating Procedure.

Task Objective

• The objective of this assignment is to review and design ICHSSA 1 program SOPs in a way that creatively presents the content and structure of the project’ thematic areas OVC service guidance as a manual for use by staff and sub-grantees organizations.

Scope of Work / Responsibilities
Content Reviewer:

• Review the SOP manuscripts into finished manual
• Format the font size, style, paragraph indentations, chapter headings and spacing
• Decide the manual cover, title and subtitles.
• Indicate clear table of content
• Write a brief description of the manual including introduction to the main points of the body in the manual.
• Determining scientific merit, originality, and scope of the work; indicating ways to improve it; and, if requested, recommending acceptance or rejection using whatever rating scale the editor deems most useful
• Ensuring that the article cites all relevant work by other scientists
• Use and or summarize/paraphrase quotations from the manuscript’s sub-themes.
• Keep all SOP included in the manuscript in its own section.
• Handle all editing and professional narration used in the document
• Submit final SOP to the ICHSSA 1 Technical Management Team for review and approval
• Incorporate comments and feedback on the final copy and resubmit for final approval by SMT.
• Complying with the editor’s written instructions on the manual’s expectations for the scope, content, and quality of the review
• Providing a thoughtful, fair, constructive, and informative critique of the submitted work, including supplementary material provided to the manual by the program staffs
• Noting any ethical concerns, such as any violation of accepted norms substantial similarity between the reviewed manuscript and any published paper or any manuscript concurrently submitted to another manual that may be known to the reviewer

Graphic Designer:
The incumbent will be required to execute the following:

• Engage in the entire process of defining requirements, visualizing, and creating graphics including illustrations, layouts, and photos.
• Ability to conceptualize and develop manuals and, product packaging.
• Ability to conceptualize visuals based on requirements
• Develop images and layouts by hand or using design software
• Art direction and photo editing
• Prepare rough drafts and present ideas
• Develop illustrations, identities, and other designs using software or by hand
• Ensure final graphics and layouts are visually appealing and on-brand
• Quality control – review materials for errors and ensure brand consistency

Language:

• The manual will be prepared in English

Timeline:

• The SOP review will require a period of 10 days including weekends and public holidays, executed within a period Nov 1st – 31st, 2021.

WORK SCHEDULE

Milestones	Tasks	Deliverable	Number of Days
Content Reviewer
M.1	Attend inception meeting to clarify assignment Suggest content guide/structure for a Standard SOP Share preliminary draft of proposed implementation plan  Professional editing, review and share first draft SOP – Formatting: font size, style, paragraph indentations, chapter headings and spacing;	Manual Content structure/guide First review manual	6 days
M.2	Submit final manual based on feedback from the first draft Share and develop catalogs of potential graphic representation and citations	Final reviewed manual Catalogs of graphic representation and important citations Consultancy Report	4 days
	TOTAL NUMBER OF WORKING DAYS		10 days

Graphic Designer
M.1	Develop manual cover, title and subtitles/frame Submit first draft of manual with graphic designs Attend joint design and review meeting to solicit feedback on draft designed manual	Design structure First manual design (draft)	6 days
M.2	Incorporate comments and feedback on the final copy and resubmit for final manual.	Final Manual Consultancy Report	4 day
	TOTAL NUMBER OF WORKING DAYS		10 days

PAYMENT SCHEDULE

Task	Deliverables	Percentage Payment
Content Review
Completion of Milestone 1	Manual Content structure/guide First review manual	40%
Completion of Milestone 2	Final reviewed manual Catalogs of graphic representation and important citations Consultancy Report	60%
Graphic Designer
Completion of Milestone 1	Design structure First manual design (draft)	30%
Completion of Milestone 2	Final Manual Consultancy Report	10%

Supervision

• The consultant will be supervised by the CLA Advisor.

Experience Required

Content Reviewer

• The content review must possess a minimum of Master’s Degree,
• Content review should have at least 5 years of professional experience in educational and scholastic materials review; professional experience in journal reviews in non-profits, academic or institutional research projects
• Demonstrated ability in book editing, formatting and creative writing
• Demonstrated experience in book reviews (a minimum of 5 years)
• Excellent working knowledge of English

Graphic Reviewer

• A Bachelor’s Degree for the Graphic Designer
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar role
• Software Requirements: Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop); In-depth knowledge of the use of Microsoft Word & PowerPoint.

General Competencies:

• Demonstrates competency in quality book content review skills.
• Demonstrates competency in MS Word, formatting, editing, etc.
• Has excellent communication skills.
• Has the ability to works under the pressure.
• Monitors own work to ensure quality; and
• Has the ability to express ideas clearly and persuasively.

Experience

5 years

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates are encouraged to email their CV / Resume and Sample of previous work to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

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