RFP: Propcom+ Y4 Baseline & Outcome Survey for Scaling Last-Mile Delivery of Vaccines Intervention (Agricultural Research)

Location: Nigeria; fieldwork across two intervention states in Northern Nigeria, covering at least three LGAs per state. Senior consulting team members must remain in each state during data collection.

Company

hirify.global implements Propcom+, an FCDO-funded rural and agricultural market systems development programme in Nigeria.

What you will do

• Review programme, MERL, intervention, results-chain, and indicator-reference materials.
• Develop the research methodology, sampling strategy, work plan, questionnaires, qualitative tools, data analysis plan, and reporting templates.
• Conduct a 700-farmer baseline survey and a 1,500-farmer outcome survey, including 800 non-intervention comparison farmers.
• Recruit, train, supervise, and select data collectors, while reviewing data daily and coordinating feedback meetings.
• Collect LGA-level prices of livestock inputs and products through focus groups with lead farmers, and conduct KIIs with CAHWs/VPPs and FGDs with farmers.
• Analyse and present findings, prepare baseline and outcome reports, update deliverables based on review comments, and develop comparative PowerPoint presentations.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in social sciences or a related field.
• Strong research, analytical, and technical writing skills.
• Evidence of at least one completed baseline survey in an agricultural setting in Northern Nigeria.
• Evidence of at least two additional socio-economic or livelihood surveys in agricultural settings in Northern Nigeria.
• Experience with quasi-experimental research, quantitative and qualitative data collection, and analysis; examples of previous work must include at least one QED study in agriculture.
• Ability to work in Nigeria and manage field activities across multiple LGAs and states.

Culture & Benefits

• Close collaboration with the MERL Manager, technical implementation team, and wider MERL team.
• Assignment period from 17 September 2026 to 30 April 2027.
• Professional fees and reimbursable field costs are budgeted separately.
• Payments are made after each deliverable is reviewed and approved.

Hiring process

• Submit a technical proposal, capacity statement, CVs, previous work examples, work plan, and itemised budget.
• Applications must be emailed to the stated procurement address by 5pm on 7 September 2026.
• Proposals are evaluated using technical and financial criteria weighted at 70% and 30%, respectively.