Consultant Based In Niamey To Support Gavi 6.0 Reprogramming At GAVI Alliance

Department: Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries, Country Implementation Department

Level: 3

Contract type: Consultancy

Duration: October 1, 2026 – March 31, 2027

Duty station: Niamey, Niger

About the mission

DevelopmentAid is currently supporting the identification of a Consultant (or team of consultants) on behalf of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to support the Government of Niger — in particular the Ministry of Public Health and Hygiene — throughout its transition to the Gavi 6.0 financing model, through a comprehensive reprogramming process covering vaccine budget programming and cash grant programming.

Job Overview

This mission lies at the intersection of grant reprogramming, vaccination financing, and multi-stakeholder coordination. The consultant will provide integrated technical and coordination support to prepare, finalize, and submit Niger’s Gavi 6.0 reprogramming application, ensuring the technical, strategic, and financial quality of the vaccine and cash programming, and supporting the entire submission and review cycle until its approval.

This mission takes place within a context marked by significant financial and operational constraints, requiring explicit strategic choices, a robust and transparent costing methodology, proactive risk management, and realistic operational feasibility given the Nigerien context. The consultant will work closely with the Ministry of Public Health and Hygiene, technical and financial partners, and the Gavi country team in Niger to ensure that national priorities are effectively translated into a coherent and prioritized reprogramming portfolio.

Main responsibilities

Translating priorities into a reprogrammed portfolio

Translate national priorities into a coherent portfolio of grants, covering both vaccines and cash.
Implement a rigorous, explicit and documented prioritization approach, aligned with the principles of Gavi 6.0, including health systems strengthening (HSS), equity/zero-dose, fragile contexts and resource optimization.
Supporting trade-offs between interventions, including vaccination, RSS, equity and fragile contexts.
Ensure consistency between programmatic needs, financial allocations and expected results.

Prepare and submit the reprogramming file

Support the entire preparation of the reprogramming file, covering vaccines and cash.
Coordinate the drafting, consolidation and finalization of narratives, budgets and appendices.
Develop a robust costing methodology, including assumptions, unit costs and efficiency analysis.
Incorporate costed government plans as well as contributions from technical and financial partners.
Identify and document synergies to avoid duplication.
Ensure technical coordination between all stakeholders, including the Ministry of Public Health and Hygiene, UNICEF, WHO and civil society.
Ensure that the required national approvals are obtained, particularly from the GTCV, the CCIA and the relevant ministries.
Ensure full compliance with Gavi 6.0 guidelines, formats and criteria.

Support the review of the application

Supporting exchanges with the Gavi Secretariat and preparing responses to requests for clarification, relating to the vaccine and cash aspects.
Ensure the overall technical consistency of the file.
Clearly explain to review bodies — including the Internal Review Committee (IRC) and the GO Group — the prioritization choices, strategic rationale and costing methodology.

Managing feedback resolution and risks

To serve as the focal point for managing comments and conditions.
Facilitate exchanges between the Government and Gavi, ensuring rapid and high-quality adjustments within the required timeframes.
Proactively identify and mitigate risks affecting timelines, portfolio quality, and operational feasibility.

Main deliverables

Detailed work plan and rescheduling schedule, covering vaccines and cash.
Methodological note on cost estimation, including assumptions, unit costs and efficiency.
Prioritization and arbitration note, including key choices and their justification.
Risk register covering programmatic, financial, operational and contextual risks, with mitigation measures.
Complete reprogramming file, including intermediate and final versions.
Finalized documents ready for review by the IRC / GO Group.
Consolidated responses to comments and revised versions.
Final handover note, covering key decisions, residual risks and implications for implementation.

Desired profile

Advanced degree (Master’s) in public health, health economics, or a closely related field.
Demonstrated involvement in at least one Gavi grant application or funding process (vaccines, cash support or vaccination campaigns); equivalent experience in preparing funding applications to other major immunization donors is also acceptable.
Proven experience with Gavi processes, including grants, reprogramming and financing; prior experience in preparing a Gavi Full Funding Proposal (FPP) under the Gavi 5.0 Strategy is a strong asset but not required.
Strong skills in coordination and stakeholder management, with a proven track record of mobilizing multiple actors, including Ministries of Health and Technical and Financial Partners (TFPs), ideally in fragile and/or humanitarian contexts.
Excellent writing skills, with demonstrated experience in drafting funding proposals, strategic documents, and budget analyses.
Ability to manage complex processes involving political and technical considerations, and to operate effectively in a fragile environment.
Prior professional experience in Niger, or a good understanding of the Sahelian context, is desirable.

Skills and abilities

Strong analytical skills, including cost estimation and budget analysis capabilities.
Excellent skills in stakeholder engagement, facilitation and consensus building.
Ability to operate effectively in complex, politically sensitive and fragile environments.
Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
Strong command of digital tools and ease with modern tools, including Excel, budgeting platforms, Power BI (or equivalent), and electronic grant submission systems.

Language requirements

Excellent command of French, both written and spoken.
A working knowledge of English is an asset.

How to apply

Only applications submitted via our online platform will be considered: https://jobs.developmentpeople.com/
If you have any questions or difficulties submitting your application online, you can write to j.anagonou@developmentaid.org.
Due to the high volume of applications received, we can only respond to shortlisted candidates. Please note that the above requirements may be modified during the recruitment process, in accordance with the client’s procedures.

Deadline : July 23, 2026