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We seek a suitably qualified candidate to fill the position below:
Job Title: Thought Leadership Consultant to Support Case Studies on Improved Accountability and Community Participation in Public Health System
Location: Gombe
Background
The State Accountability and Quality Improvement Project (SAQIP) is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented in Gombe State by Pact West Africa. The project’s targets include; improving the governance capacity for the public health system, improved accountability and community participation in the public health system and increased utilization of public Maternal, New-born and Child Health (MNCH) services.
To achieve this, SAQIP works with the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency, including Local Government Area (LGA) Health Teams, Primary Health Centres, Ward Development Committees and members of Mothers Groups who are rural poor Women of Child Bearing Age within the eleven LGA’s in the State.
The project has built very strong and veritable partnerships across the state and LGAs through which it is providing the support to address institutional gaps that exists at the SPHCDA, LGA Health Teams and facilities. The project has evolved several strategies and approaches through the Ward Development Committees and Mothers Groups to strengthen community structures and stimulated action for the support of high impact primary health services across the 57 intervention wards. This capacity development processes that included hands on support and mentoring is observably showing improvement in their planning and coordination roles of the primary health services.
The LGA health teams now take charge of coordinating the activities of all partners within the LGA for effective collaboration and synergy to reduce duplication of efforts, and enhancing linkages and collaboration with other stakeholders and community structures contributing to their health systems.
The Consultant will be expected to support the Project in the understanding of effective practices and innovative solutions evolved in the course of implementation for institutionalization. The study will solicit responses of primary and secondary stakeholders of the project to harvest information’s through face to face interview. The respondents would be randomly selected across the 57 intervention wards; in addition to the desk review of literature and programme reports. The findings will serve as knowledge base for Pact West Africa and other Pact Offices across the globe.
Purpose of the Consultancy
- To support Pact West Africa with an understanding of the effective practices and innovative solutions that evolved due to the implementation of the State Accountability and Quality Improvement Project (SAQIP) in Gombe State.
Description of Key Tasks
- Desk review of relevant literature and program documents
- Develop protocol for qualitative study and dissemination plan for findings
- Develop interview guides and identify respondents for study
- Obtain ethical approval where relevant
- Interview and collect data from respondents using appropriate methods
- Analyze qualitative data and information gleaned from desk review
Candidate Requirements
Candidate with:
- At least an M.Sc Degree in Development Studies, Social Sciences, Public Health, Political Science, or Economics and at least eight years of research experience
- Experience in designing and conducting qualitative studies in the development/humanitarian space with evidence of conducting at least one in the last three years
- Experience using NVIVO and/or any other qualitative data analysis tool
- At least one peer-reviewed publication in a reputable national or international journal in the last five years
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to speak Hausa fluently
- Readiness to share sample(s) of similar work done in the last three years.
Language:
- Fluency in written/oral English and Hausa is required
Expected Outcomes
- Develop protocol for qualitative study and dissemination plan for findings
- Develop interview guides and identify respondents for the study
- Obtain ethical approval where relevant
- Interview and collect data from respondents using appropriate methods
- Analyze qualitative data and information gleaned from desk review
- Develop report describing the effective practices and solutions due to SAQIP
Milestones and Deliverables:
- Activities/Tasks Timelines Days Outputs
- Develop protocol for qualitative study and dissemination plan from finding TBD 1 Study protocol
- Develop interview guides and identify respondents for the study
- TBD 1 Interview guides and respondent list
- Desk review of relevant literature and program documents
- TBD 3 Literature & program documents reviewed
- Interview and collect data from respondents using appropriate methods
- TBD 9 Data collected from respondent
- Analyze qualitative data and information garnered from desk review TBD 3 Qualitative data analysed
- Develop report describing the effective practices and solutions due to SAQIP TBD 5 Analysis report developed
Working Relationships:
- The Consultant will be expected to work in close collaboration with SAQIP Staff, SPHCDA staff and Community Structures.
Application Closing Date
29th August, 2018.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV and Cover Letter on their suitability to:
[email protected] Applicants MUST indicate the position applied for on the SUBJECT of the mail (E.g. Thought Leadership Consultant on improved accountability and Community Participation in public health system).
Note
- All applications MUST be submitted as a single file in either word format or PDF
- All gender is strongly encouraged to apply. However applications will be considered on a rolling basis
- Note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.