OneHealth Tool Data Collector (Sokoto) at Avenir Health

Avenir Health, formerly Futures Institute, was founded in 2006 as a global health organization that works to enhance social and economic development by providing tools and technical assistance in policy, planning, resource allocation and evaluation. In particular, we focus on developing and implementing demographic, epidemiological and costing models for long-range planning to assist with setting goals, strategies, and objectives. We assist in both developing and implementing programs in HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, maternal health and other programming areas. We work with government agencies, foundations, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations around the world.

Areas of program concentration include family planning and reproductive health, maternal and child health, the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, and infectious diseases. With staff based in the United States and Africa, we work collaboratively with our in-country counterparts to improve policies and programs that address population issues, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, and maternal and child health.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: OneHealth Tool Data Collector

Location: Sokoto
Employment Type: Contract

Project Overview and Role

• Avenir Health’s contract under the USAID Integrated Health Program (IHP) Task Order Contract (TO 03, 04, 05) is to support IHP’s work to sustainably support quality primary health care (PHC) services in Bauchi, Kebbi and Sokoto States. As part of this work, Avenir Health is building capacity in each state to support strategic health planning and costing using the OneHealth Tool (OHT).
• This includes training a cadre of IHP project and government staff in each state to use the OHT, and supporting implementation of the OHT in each state, including supervision of OHT data collectors in each state and the overall data collection process.
• The OHT Data Collector in Sokoto State will work under the supervision of a national OHT Expert and work in coordination with the OHT focal team in Sokoto State, to gather the necessary data needed for the OHT application in Sokoto State. This includes proper documentation of data sources, assumptions, and missing data.

Responsibilities

• Participate in training of IHP OHT focal points in Sokoto State on the application of the OHT
• Review data collection methodology and template for Sokoto
• Use OHT template to gather data in Sokoto State for OHT modules: health services, health systems (human resources, logistics, infrastructure)
• Coordinate with Sokoto OHT focal teams to review state data collected for baseline OHT projection. As necessary, participate (virtually or in-person) in state data review and validation meetings
• Participate (virtually or in-person) in state OHT results in dissemination meetings

Travel Requirements:

• Participate at in-person OHT training in Sokoto State (timeframe: October/November 2020)
• OHT data collection in Sokoto State

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree qualification
• At least 5 years of demonstrated experience in Nigeria with costing and budgeting in two or more technical areas of reproductive health/family planning, maternal and newborn health, child health, nutrition and malaria programs, and working with development agencies and organizations, government officials, civil society leaders, community leaders, project beneficiaries and project staff
• Familiarity with the data requirements of the OneHealth Tool (OHT)
• Experience with costing, budgeting and related topics and data sources in Nigeria
• Possess excellent organizational, analytical, oral and written communications skills in English

Deliverables:

• Final OHT data collected for Sokoto State:
  • Health Services module
  • Human Resources module
  • Infrastructure module
  • Logistics module
• Summary of OHT data collection (sources, interviews conducted, missing data, assumptions, etc.).

Application Closing Date
12th October, 2020.