• Country: Juba, South Sudan
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: IRC
• Gender: Both
• Deadline: N/A

Introduction

The IRC responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster – including the climate crisis – to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. IRC was founded in 1933 by Albert Einstein to respond to the needs of people vulnerable to conflict around the world. As the IRC approaches our 100th year of service in 2033, we remain focused on ensuring that the impact of our programs and the influence of our ideas empower people caught in crisis to make last change in their lives.

IRC South Sudan Country Program is planning to conduct a Gender Equity Diversity and Inclusion (GEDI Analysis) of the GAVI REACH Project to develop, implement, and monitor various strategies for encouraging service supply and uptake of vaccines by hard-to-reach populations in Twic East, Central Equatoria and Upper Nile.

2. Program Description

The GAVI REACH project is implementing an innovative program within the Horn of Africa, with the goal of ensuring that: “systematically missed communities and zero-dose children (ZDC) in fragile and conflict settings are sustainably reached by quality immunization services integrated with primary healthcare (PHC) platforms.” To realize this ambition, the project must develop, implement, and monitor various strategies for encouraging service supply and uptake by hard-to-reach populations. In particular, the project must seek to identify and address gender, equality, diversity, and inclusion (GEDI)-related determinants associated with decision-making, and utilization of immunization services at community and health systems levels and implement interventions to bridge the GEDI gap to accelerate progress towards the project’s stated goal.

This process will involve multiple steps designed to strengthen GEDI-integration within the REACH project to improve service to clients, including:

Conduct basic GEDI training with all project staff and partners.
Undertake a GEDI analysis to inform the project design and the strategies that will be adopted.
Articulate REACH’s GEDI strategy, through a collaborative process with REACH staff, clients, partners, and stakeholders, including the accompanying social and behavior change (SBC) plan and messaging.
Oversee the implementation of REACH’s GEDI strategy and prioritized activities.
Evaluate the overall efficacy of REACH’s GEDI strategy through on-going monitoring and evaluation and a final impact assessment.
The GEDI analysis is a critical step in this process, as it will offer data that will give insight into the kinds of interventions that are required to support the project’s ability to deliver on its outcomes, of improving:

The reach of immunization services.
Management of Immunization service
Local buy-in and future sustainability.
The GEDI analysis further seeks to achieve the above by building the IRC GAVI REACH team’s understanding of the GEDI-related needs, opportunities, and constraints of clients in South Sudan, Sudan. The analysis will also seek to describe the GEDI trends at the macro-level (region, country, institutions, and policy), as well as the micro or context- specific issues (community and family-level), which could hinder the project’s success or result in harm to clients, if left unaddressed. The GEDI analysis will consist of the following components:

a quantitative survey of the target population.
Qualitative interviews to gain insight into client and community experiences using an intersectional lens.
An organizational audit of IRC and its partners to assess team diversity, knowledge, and capacity to deliver GEDI sensitive and transformative programs.
A GEDI Marker baseline score.
In collaboration with SBC specialist and partner, ThinkPlace, user testing to assess if the proposed SBC and community engagement strategies will resonate with different client groups.
3. Purpose of the Team Leader Role
Support to hire enumerator teams (2 lead enumerators and 10 enumerators)
Co-ordinate and oversee the lead enumerators and enumerators, supporting them with co-ordination, logistics and talking to local government officials.
Work closely with the Consultant to ensure high quality and useful data collection.
Review the household survey and KII draft and final tools.
Test tools, train enumerators, support the adaptation of tools and oversee the data collection.
Feedback on what worked, and what did not in the tools and suggesting adaptations.
Liaise with local government officials to ensure buy-in and approval of the research.
Provide support in booking logistics (e.g., vehicle hire) and manage the timely data collection.
Answer questions from enumerators in country in person and respond to enumerators’ questions through a WhatsApp support group.
Supporting with Data Quality Assurance processes
Support the translator ensures high quality qualitative data collection.
Oversee the data collection in the form of a household survey and KIIs with clients and healthcare professionals.
Facilitate a workshop with enumerators to harvest early findings and practical recommendations, ensuring recommendations are specific to the locations and practical.
Feedback and stay in close communication with the lead consultant.
Review and co-create early findings.
Support with the co-creation of practical recommendations that are regionally specific and targeted at different population groups.
4. Specific Responsibilities
Become familiar with the program documents and goals.
Support with the preparation phase of data collection – sampling, deciding on which villages to sample, relaying the sample strategy to the research team and troubleshooting.
Support in the recruitment of the research team
Reviewed and revised survey and KIIs
Take part in pre-training with the consultant.
Train team leaders, enumerators, qualitative specialists, and translator in the tools
Oversee high quality data collection.
Conduct spot checks on data collected by visiting households where surveys have been conducted.
Ensure high data quality by answering the research teams’ questions, setting up a Q&A WhatsApp group, backtranslating a percentage of translation to check for accuracy.
Liaise with government officials as needed.
Plan logistics including cars, vehicles.
Ensure phones / tablets are available and changed for the survey.
Review the early analysis and create training slides to share key data with the team (team leaders, enumerators, qualitative specialist)
Validate the early findings with the research teams – research findings.
Support the research team to validate the early findings with the community – research findings.
Feedback on research findings validation with the consultant
Validate the models with the research team – solutions.
Support the models with the community – solutions.
Feedback on models with the consultant
Support with the draft and finalization of the presentations and reports and provide practical solutions and recommendations.
5. Deliverables
Final training materials
Data quality review plan
Final schedule for field team
Periodic email updates to the consultant
Draft presentation (PowerPoint slides) on research findings
Draft presentation (PowerPoint slides) on solutions and recommendations
Draft report of findings with solutions and recommendations.
6. Expected Timeframes:
Deliverables must be completed in 18 days over 2 months (November and December) from the date of agreement signing.

7. Intellectual Property Rights
All products arising from this assessment will be owned by IRC.

8. Quality & Ethical Standards
The consulting team/firm should take all reasonable steps to ensure that the assessment is designed and conducted to respect and protect the rights and welfare of the people and communities involved and to ensure that the analysis is technically accurate and reliable, is conducted transparently and impartially, and contributes to organizational learning and accountability. The Team Leader will also commit to adhering to the IRC Way and Code of Conduct.

Qualifications

9. Qualifications and Experience
Graduate level degree (MA, MPH) in International Health and/or a Development related qualification.
At least 5 years’ demonstrable experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research in public health, health, and development in general.
Excellent judgment, analytical, writing and reporting skills, with a focus on accessible, actionable, practitioner-focused reporting.
Skills (Experience) in advocacy, communication, and interaction with governmental and nongovernmental collaborators.
Solid understanding of Microsoft packages (MS Word, MS Excel, and Power Point).
Familiarity with humanitarian and conflict-affected settings and knowledge of the context of South Sudan, especially REACH project locations is an added advantage.
Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
Ability and willingness to travel to implementation sites in South Sudan (pending approval from IRC safety and security team, based on security situation)
10. Contact Details:
Interested applicants can send their CVs, sample reports and other relevant documentation by the 27th of October 2023 to the following address:

Email:

Physical Address: 1st Floor Goshene House, Plot 23 Kololo, Airport Road, Juba

11. IRC Core Values & Commitments:
The IRC workers and partners/consultants must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Adult Safeguarding, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.

IRC is committed to ensuring that consultant is suitable to work with children and women / girls and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy.

Level of interaction with clients: Frequent direct contact with clients

IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

Qualified Women and persons with disability are highly encouraged to apply.

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