Senior Narrative & Gender Analyst

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the coding framework tone, stance, theme, narrative and the project narrative register.
• Recruit, train and calibrate the Hausa coders to an inter-coder reliability Krippendorff’s alpha of 0.80 or higher, and adjudicate disagreements.
• Identify dominant narratives and counter-narratives on GBV, early and forced marriage, and family and social norms.
• Lead narrative analysis for the periodic learning reports and the final report.
• Advise on gender-responsive and trauma-informed framing in all outputs.

Required experience

• Master’s Degree in Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Public Health, Communication or a related field; PhD preferred.
• At least 7 years of professional experience in qualitative or gender research in Northern Nigeria.
• Proven work on GBV or early and forced marriage.
• Codebook development and supervision of coding teams NVivo, Atlas.ti or similar.
• Native Hausa speaker with fluent English.

Preferred experience:

• Social and behaviour change or entertainment-education programmes.
• Familiarity with behaviour change theory, such as Social Cognitive Theory.

Skills and attributes:

• Trauma-informed practice when handling GBV-related content.
• Strong team leadership and coaching skills.
• Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications in one PDF to: info@aid-health.org using “SL Application – [Job ID] – [Full Name]” as the subject of the mail.

Candidates should send one PDF containing:

• A CV (maximum 4 pages);
• A one-page cover note;
• One work sample;
• Two referees.

Note

• Engagement depends on the contract being awarded.
• AIDHealth never charges a fee at any stage of recruitment.
• Women and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.