OneHealth Tool Data Collector (Abuja) at Avenir Health

Avenir Health, formerly Futures Institute, was founded in 2006 as a global health organization that works to enhance social and economic development by providing tools and technical assistance in policy, planning, resource allocation and evaluation. In particular, we focus on developing and implementing demographic, epidemiological and costing models for long-range planning to assist with setting goals, strategies, and objectives. We assist in both developing and implementing programs in HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, maternal health and other programming areas. We work with government agencies, foundations, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations around the world.

Areas of program concentration include family planning and reproductive health, maternal and child health, the prevention and treatment of HIV / AIDS, and infectious diseases. With staff based in the United States and Africa, we work collaboratively with our in-country counterparts to improve policies and programs that address population issues, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, and maternal and child health.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: OneHealth Tool Data Collector

Location: Abuja (FCT)

Project Overview and Role

• Avenir Health’s contract under the USAID Integrated Health Program (IHP) Task Order Contract (TO 07) is to support IHP’s work to sustainably support quality primary health care (PHC) services in FCT. As part of this work, Avenir Health is building capacity in FCT to support strategic health planning and costing using the OneHealth Tool (OHT).
• This includes training a cadre of IHP project and government staff in FCT to use the OHT, and supporting implementation of the OHT in FCT, including data collection required for the OHT.
• The OHT Data Collector in FCT will work under the supervision of a national OHT Expert and work in coordination with the OHT focal team in FCT, to gather the necessary data needed for the OHT application in FCT. This includes proper documentation of data sources, assumptions, and missing data.

Responsibilities

• Participate in a 5-day training workshop of IHP OHT focal points in or around FCT on the application of the OHT
• Review data collection methodology and template for FCT
• Determine process and next steps for data collection in the FCT
• Use OHT template to gather data in FCT for OHT modules: health services, health systems (human resources, logistics, infrastructure)
• Coordinate with FCT OHT focal teams to review state data collected for baseline OHT projection. As necessary, participate (virtually or in person) in state data review and validation meetings
• Participate (virtually or in person) in state OHT results dissemination meetings

Timeframe:

• May - July 2021

Criteria to Apply (Mandatory)

• Practical experience with the OneHealth Tool (OHT), including participation in a training workshop and experience collecting data required for the OneHealth Tool (OHT) (national or state-level)
• At least 10 years of demonstrated experience in Nigeria with costing and budgeting in two or more technical areas of reproductive health / family planning, maternal and newborn health, child health, nutrition and malaria programs, and working with development agencies and organizations, government officials, civil society leaders, community leaders, project beneficiaries and project staff
• Experience with costing, budgeting and related topics and data sources in Nigeria
• Possess excellent organizational, analytical, oral and written communications skills in English.
• Bachelor's Degree qualification.

Deliverables:

• Final OHT data collected for FCT:
  • Health Services module
  • Human Resources module
  • Infrastructure module
  • Logistics module
• Summary of OHT data collection data collection (sources, interviews conducted, missing data, assumptions, etc.).

Application Closing Date
26th March, 2021.