Consultant at John Snow Incorporated (JSI)


Posted on: Fri 02-06-2023

John Snow Incorporated (JSI) - We are public health care and health systems consultants and researchers driven by a passion to improve health services and health outcomes for all.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Consultant for Technical Support on Data Analysis and Final Report on Routine Immunization Data Spot-checks and COVID-19 Vaccination RDQA in focus states.

Location: Nigeria

Background

  • Immunization services are an essential part of the primary healthcare system and a key contributor to people’s fundamental right to health. Vaccines are among the greatest advances in global health and development. For over two centuries, vaccines have safely reduced the scourge of diseases like polio, measles, and smallpox, helping children grow up healthy and happy.  Some populations – often the poorest, the most marginalized, and the most vulnerable – have little or no access to immunization services [Immunization-agenda-2030].  
  • In 2021, 25 million children were un- or under-vaccinated and more than 60 percent live in just ten countries including Nigeria, and 18 million did not receive any vaccines (zero-dose children), an increase of 5 million from 2019 [WHO/UNICEF national immunization coverage estimates, 2021 revision].  
  • MOMENTUM (Moving Integrated, Quality Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and Family Planning and Reproductive Health) Round 3B,  hereafter referred to as MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity (M-RITE), is a global U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) cooperative agreement, which aims to sustainably strengthen routine immunization (RI) programs to overcome the entrenched obstacles contributing to stagnating and declining immunization rates in maternal, newborn, and child health, voluntary family planning, and reproductive health (MNCH/FP/RH) partner countries; and address the barriers to reaching zero-dose and under-immunized children with life-saving vaccines and other health services.
  • M-RITE is a consortium of global leaders in immunization systems approaches, integrated management and service delivery, health system strengthening (HSS), financing, data and learning, social and behavior change (SBC), strategic partnerships, gender, and human-centered design (HCD).

Purpose

The Consultant will work closely with the Senior Advisor MEAL to support the M-RITE Nigeria MEAL team on the analysis, preparation and finalization of the final report of recently conducted Rapid Data Quality Assessment and Routine Immunization Data Spot-checks  in M-RITE focus states.

Duties, Responsibilities and Scope of Work

  • The Consultant shall familiarize him/herself with the M-RITE Project document, COVID-19 introduction efforts of NPHCDA, SCALES 3.0 achievements and challenges, USAID RDQA tools, sources of data for COVID-19 coverage, Data Quality Improvement plans and protocols, as well as other documents required to inform the Consultant of the mandate and activities of M-RITE.
  • The Consultancy entails research, editing and writing, and a commitment to deadlines, as well as providing advice and other technical assistance to the M-RITE project.

Reporting directly to the Country Director and the MEAL team, the Consultant will perform the following tasks:

  • Develop the structure and outline of the final report and a “working” editorial and production schedule, where flexibility is built in to accommodate lapses, yet deadlines are set and overall, ensure that the final report is completed within 20 working days.
  • Review all presented portions of the back-end data, with a view of ensuring:
  • The Consultant shall be required to sign a confidentiality agreement with the project.

Institutional Arrangement/Reporting

The Consultant will be reporting on a weekly basis directly to the Senior MEAL Advisor, shall brief other members of the Country Director biweekly.

Duration and Modality of Work

  • The duration of the consultancy is for 20 paid working days within 30 working days, noting that due to the nature of the assignment, there may be periods of time when no actual writing or research will occur because the Consultant will be waiting for text and/or information from the Senior MEAL Advisor.
  • Qualifications - Education, Experience and Language

The following skills and experience are expected:

  • Proficiency in English (written and spoken);
  • More than five years of experience in project evaluation, including collecting data in interviews, surveys and focus groups;
  • Master's Degree in a relevant field, including Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health;
  • Experience in pre, peri and post-campaign evaluations and working on security sector reform-related themes;
  • Proficient in the use of data visualization software;  
  • Experience working with international NGOs;
  • Experience conducting quantitative surveys and analysis;
  • Evaluation methods and data collection skills;
  • Familiarity, contextual knowledge of and experience working with USAID funded project in Nigeria, experience vaccination or malaria campaigns contextual challenges is a comparative advantage.

In addition, the consultant is required to respect the following Ethical Principles:

  • Comprehensive and systematic inquiry: Consultant should make the most of the existing information and full range of stakeholders available at the time of the review. Consultant should conduct systematic, data-based inquiries. He or she should communicate his or her methods and approaches accurately and in sufficient detail to allow others to understand, interpret and critique his or her work. He or she should make clear the limitations of the review and its results.

Technical Proposal:

  • CV
  • Cover/Motivational Letter
  • Proposed methodology
  • Past experiences in similar consultancies and/or projects
  • List of professional referees

Financial Proposal:

Daily professional fee, communication and other expenses allowable by JSI policy)

Conditions

  • Place of work: Desk-based
  • Travel: None
  • Type of contract: Short-term consultancy
  • Duration: May-June 2023
  • Fees: Professional fees
  • Insurance: Professional indemnity insurance is a pre-requisite
  • Equipment: Should have own computing and broadband facilities for remote collaborations

Application Closing Date

9th June, 2023.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates (Individuals or Teams) are requested to submit the following two documents to: [email protected] using “COVID-19 Vaccination RDQA in focus states” as the subject of the mail

  • Application Document
  • Curriculum Vitae;
  • A technical and financial proposal for the completion of the deliverables and a short cover letter.

Note

  • Only two documents can be submitted, so the technical and financial proposals must be combined, along with the short Cover Letter.
  • Note that any submission made after the stipulated date will not be considered.