Eye Health Integration Consultant

About the role

The Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) is inviting applications from individual consultants to provide part-time technical support and coordination for an 18-month eye health integration pilot in Adamawa State, Nigeria. The pilot tests an eye health module in ThinkMD's Clinical Intelligence platform, with FHF providing clinical direction, co-design, technical assistance, monitoring and evaluation support and input on possible scale-up. The consultant works with ThinkMD, the Adamawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency (ADSPHCDA) and FHF's technical and monitoring teams.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate FHF's role in the pilot: planning, implementation, review, regular coordination with partners, action records, progress tracking and escalation of delays to the contract manager.
• Develop an inception plan, implementation tracker and quarterly progress reports.
• Support the development and refinement of the eye health module, check consistency with national protocols and worker competencies, and run implementation-focused user testing.
• Document lessons on integrating eye health referral pathways into routine primary healthcare and monitor referral bottlenecks in a sample of PHCs.
• Carry out structured technical reviews of the module, clinical content, workflows and user-testing findings, and coordinate specialist reviews where needed.
• Undertake field visits, track pilot indicators, support data-quality checks, review clinical cases and identify requirements for scale-up.
• Gather feedback on usability and workload, contribute to mid-pilot and final reviews, and prepare scale-up recommendations.
• Maintain a risk register covering clinical safety, adoption, referral capacity, safeguarding and data protection.

Required profile

• A recognised qualification in ophthalmology, optometry, ophthalmic nursing, public health, health systems or a related discipline, with demonstrable eye health service delivery or programme implementation experience.
• At least 10 years of relevant professional experience, including at least three years supporting eye health programmes, PHC integration or referral and service-strengthening work.
• Demonstrated experience with Nigerian government health structures and frontline facilities, and with multi-partner implementation, workplans, risk tracking and reporting.
• Ability to interpret eye care guidance and clinical workflows and to work within professional and organisational boundaries.
• Desirable: digital health or clinical decision support experience, experience in Adamawa State or northern Nigeria, and knowledge of WHO primary eye care and vision-screening resources.

The engagement is part-time over 18 months, at about 10 working days per month (up to 180 days), combining remote coordination with occasional in-person meetings and facility visits. Applicants submit a cover letter, CV, qualifications and three referees, plus a technical proposal and financial proposal, by 25 November 2026.