Team Leader (REACH GEDI Analysis)- Roving (Tigray and Afar)

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

Background of IRC:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC works with people forced to flee from war, conflict and disaster and the host communities that support them, as well as with those who remain within their homes and communities. At-work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. IRC leads the way from harm to home. Began work in Ethiopia, 1999 in response to severe drought that happened in Ethiopia’s Somali region. Currently, providing assistance in ten different regions implementing emergency and development programs in health, water and sanitation, economic recovery and development (ERD), women’s protection and empowerment, education, child protection, and multi-sectoral emergency response.

Project Background

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 in order to accelerate progress towards the project’s stated goal.

Job Overview/Summary:

The Team Leader is the first point of contact between the Enumerator teams and the GEDI Analysis Lead consultant. The Team Leader will take a lead role in overseeing and managing smooth and high-quality data collection process, from start to finish.

The Team Leaders will manage a team of around 12 female and male enumerators in between two to three locations. In each location where the Team Leader is not present there will be a Lead Enumerator to support the Team Leader. The Team Leader will oversee and support to collect high-quality and robust qualitative and quantitative data, that is validated with enumerators and the community and is useful to the project in co-creating practical recommendations.

Major responsibilities include:

· 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 adaption of tools and oversee the data collection

· Feedback on what worked, and what did not in the tools and suggesting adaptions

· 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 responding to enumerators’ questions through a WhatsApp support group.

· Supporting with Data Quality Assurance processes

· Support the translator ensure 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 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

· Support finance in the payment of the enumerators (payment is done directly by IRC. However, the Team Leader will help with ensuring contracts are signed and returned)

· Ensure phone/ tablets are available for use during data collection.

· Ensure KIIs are printed.

· Ensure quality qualitative data are captured and that detail is gathered in the recording and translation process.

· Ensure photo consent forms are printed, signed, returned and photos are captioned.

· Support with logistics and communicate with local government

· Support with brainstorming sessions to analyze data and formulate the presentations and report. Co-create recommendations for the presentations and reports by liaising closely with the research team in the country and the consultant.

N.B- this post is for individual consultants

Qualifications

· Advanced university degree and above in relevant fields

· Minimum 3 years’ experience in research, survey supervision, Team leader, Data collection coordinator and data analyst