Background Information
Title of Post: Public Health Midwifery Investment Specialist
Grade level of Post NOC
Location: Abuja, Nigeria - Remote
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Individual Consultancy (IC)
Duration: 40 days over a period of six months
CLOSING DATE: SUNDAY 21 JUNE 2026
Please note that this vacancy announcement is only for Nigerian nationals.
Purpose of Consultancy
Global attention and investment in midwifery are increasing as an effective strategy to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3). To advance this agenda, the Midwifery Accelerator was launched in April 2025 by a global coalition including WHO, UNICEF, and ICM to scale up the Midwifery Model of Care (MMoC).
The primary goal is to generate country-specific evidence on the costs and economic benefits of scaling up MmoC to inform policy, prioritize investments, and mobilize resources. By implementing investment case framework analysis in midwifery at country level, UNFPA together with key stakeholders would be able to provide economic arguments to persuade the government to expand investments in and coverage of MmoC. This case will guide strategic investments, policy formulation, and resource mobilization, with the ultimate goal of improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes in the country.
Scope of Work
The Public Health Consultant would provide the technical, epidemiological, health systems, and policy leadership needed to ensure that the investment case is evidence-based, context-specific, and aligned with national and global maternal and newborn health priorities. While a health economist focuses primarily on costs, financing, and economic returns, the public health expert focuses on the population health rationale, health systems implications, service delivery realities, and public health impact of investing in MMoC in Nigeria.
The consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Induction workshop: working in collaboration with a Health Economist, design and co-facilitate a national induction workshop, in coordination with Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (FMOH&SW), Federal Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning (FMBEP), Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, and key stakeholders, to present and discuss the objectives of the investment case. The workshop will aim to establish a multi-sectoral Task Force and develop a roadmap for implementation.
- Stakeholder Workshops: Plan and co-facilitate 3–4 national and subnational workshops to support the investment case for midwifery. These will include an inception workshop, coordination meetings, validation of draft results, and a final dissemination event with FMOH&SW and relevant stakeholders.
- Situational Analysis: Lead a thorough analysis of the national and subnational landscape for RMNCAH+N and midwifery in Nigeria. Review maternal and neonatal mortality rates, the primary causes of preventable deaths, health system characteristics, existing policies, and the current state of the midwifery workforce and model of care.
- Define Midwifery Intervention Package: In line with the investment case framework and national priorities, lead the definition and selection of a model package of midwifery care that can be delivered by midwives in the Nigerian context to accelerate reduction of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity.
- Workforce Analysis and Strategy: Estimate the workforce requirements needed to deliver the modeled scale-up scenario, in collaboration with the Health Economist. The Key Deliverables Duration and working Schedule: The consultancy is for 40 days over a period of six months. Month 1: inception workshop and planning phase.
Months 2–3: data collection, review, and analysis phase.
Months 3–4: report drafting and stakeholder validation.
Months 5–6: finalization and dissemination. Places where services are to be delivered: Abuja, Nigeria - Remote. Monitoring and progress control, including reporting requirements, periodicity format and deadline: A clear milestone-based payment is outlined for this consultancy, each payment tranche released upon the successful submission and approval of specific deliverables. Payment tranches
Key Deliverables
Percentage%
Tranche-1- Conduct a gap analysis of the current midwifery workforce supply, distribution, and skill mix against the projected demand.
- Develop evidence-based workforce development strategies, considering options such as training new cadres, scaling up existing training programs, and improving retention.
- Analyze Enabling Environment: Assess the contextual factors required for an enabling environment for midwifery in Nigeria, including regulation, professional status, gender equality, and system-level integration.
- Reporting: Lead the drafting of the RMNCAEH+N and human resource for health sections of the reports and deliverables, ensuring a cohesive and integrated final investment case document.
- Inception Report detailing the methodology, work plan, stakeholder engagement strategy, and data availability.
- Comprehensive Reports of the national induction and the Inception Workshops with FMOH&SW, FMBEP, and other stakeholder consultation meetings.
- Situational Analysis Report on the RMNCAH+N services, midwifery landscape and health systems, geographic disparity and equity analysis of Nigeria.
- Draft Investment Case Document, detailing the health impact projections of the model scenarios, the priority intervention package and framework including workforce development and retention strategies, and policy recommendations.
- Final Investment Case Document, fully validated and ready for dissemination, including roadmap for implementation, the monitoring, evaluation and accountability framework.
- Advocacy materials and contribution to policy briefs based on the investment case findings.
- Presentation & Dissemination Materials for the investment case.
- Final Technical Consultancy Report
- Inception report
- Comprehensive induction workshop & meeting reports
- Situational analysis report
