Background:
Solthis is part of a consortium with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) – acting as the consortium lead organization – and I-Tech that has been shortlisted to answer the country request for proposals (RFP) for Health Facility Assessment (HFA) that the Global Fund will be issuing in the upcoming months. To this view, Solthis is looking to set up a roster of English-speaking and/or French-speaking experts in order to answer these RFPs. These experts will have to be ready to be mobilized on short notice for technical assistance, for a duration of up to 50 days depending on their profile.
The HFA are part of a monitoring & evaluation strategy that allow to monitor key quality indicators and processes regarding health services delivered in a country. The data from the HFA will be used to inform corrective actions and quality improvement approaches back into planning and implementation at national, regional/district and site levels. The HFA will be implemented in several countries by a specific team composed of a country team leader, a statistician, public health experts and health economist (NB : the exact composition of the team will vary depending on the needs in each country). The role of this team will be to build the capacities of national partners to allow them to implement an HFA in their country, and to provide overall oversight and management of the HFA.
Requirements for the position:
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Tasks :
Input from a qualified statistician will be critical in at least two phases of the HFA implementation – completing the sampling methodology during the planning phase and throughout the cleaning and analysis phase. In both cases, the statistician should work with local counterparts to ensure capacity is built. In cases where the local partner has strong capacity, the statistician may just validate their work, rather than completing the analysis.
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Estimated number of working days for one country HFA :
From 25 to 50 days depending on the country needs.
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Qualifications:
- Master's degree in epidemiology, statistics, or other related fields
- 5 or more years of experience in international public health work
- Experience with health facility assessments or other similar large-scale surveys
- Familiarity with statistical packages and tool to facilitate both data capture (such as CS Pro), data analysis (SPS, STATA, excel, etc.) and GIS mapping.
- Experience working with international teams and dealing in a culturally appropriate manner with a range of stakeholders, from high level government officials to community members
If you're interested in this position, please send your resume to the following address: caroline.gallais@solthis.org
