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Background

The Ethiopia Data Use Partnership (DUP) supports the Ministry of Health (MOH) in addressing current Health Information System (HIS) challenges on a national scale in both urban and rural settings. One of the DUP HIS intervention is working with Universities and RHBs for Capacity Building and Mentorship Project (CBMP) in eleven woredas found in all the regions. DUP also support implementation of focused and tailored HIS interventions packages in eight woredas as learning sites.  Health service access and better health outcomes are expected to improve when HIS performance is improved in the intervention woredas. However, the effect of the interventions on data use and health outcomes is not assessed.

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of performance of Health Information System(HIS) (in terms of data quality and data use) on coverage of maternal and child health services.

A pre and posttest with comparison group will be employed to guide the overall conduct of the study. Linked health facility and population-based survey will be conducted in both intervention and comparison woredas. Two separate studies (one for the learning sites and one for CBMP sites) will be conducted. Each study will apply two stage sampling procedure (first stage is selection of kebeles and second stage is selection of households) to select 30 kebeles (clusters) and 862 targeted HHs (for the population-based survey); and 30 health posts, about 20 health centers and 9 hospitals (for the facility survey).  Similar procedure and sample size will be utilized for the comparison group.

DUP is planning to collect data for this study from households and health facilities in the woredas mentioned above.

In order to achieve the data collection, DUP is seeking a short term contractual service of the following personnel:

Data collection supervisors who had proven experience of supervision and management of data collection

Overall objective of the assignment 

·                The overall objective of this assignment is to collect household and health facility level data on maternal and child health services; and health information system respectively.

Specific objectives of the assignment 

·       To collect household level data on maternal and child health services

·       To collect health facility level data on health information system

·       To supervise and manage the overall data collection

Number of supervisors needed for the data collection

The following number of supervisors are needed for this study:

·       Data collection supervisors – 18

Duration of the assignment

The data collection will be done from Sept 1- Oct 312020. The actual data collection will take a maximum of 20 days.

Duties and responsibilities

Data collection supervisors

·       Manage logistics and supplies for the data collection

·       Manage the time and effort of the data collection

·       In collaboration with data collectors, prepare micro plans for the data collection and effectively manage the movement of data collectors

·       Provide technical support and troubleshooting to the data collectors

·       Make sure that quality data is collected by each data collectors and submitted to the cloud server

·       Perform other activities related to the data collection when assigned by DUP

Management and coordination mechanism

DUP in collaboration with MOH will manage and oversee the overall data collection at national level. At regional level, DUP staff in collaboration with RHB staff will coordinate and manage the conduct of data collection.

Data collection supervisors will closely work with DUP regional staff in order to manage both technical and logistic issues related to the data collection. Data collection supervisors will regularly report to DUP regional staff in order to effectively manage the data collection and collect quality data for the study.

Data collection supervisor will manage the day-to day activities of the data collection at woreda, kebele and health facility levels. Data collection supervisor will manage the data collectors so that they are equipped with the necessary supplies and skills to conduct the assessment.

DUP will provide a five days training to data collectors and supervisors in order to equip them with the necessary skills covering sampling, data collection tool, SurveyCTO, and coordination of the data collection.

Job Requirements

Qualifications and experiences of supervisors  

·       Qualification– Minimum of master’s degree in relevant fields (health, statistics, social science, IT, etc)

·       Experience- can demonstrate experience on both household and health facility level data collection, supervision and management

Data collection tasks will be undertaken across the different regions of the country; and Knowledge of local languages of the region the data collector/supervisor is planning to work in (Amharic, Afan Oromo, Tigrigna, Somali, etc.) is a requirement.

How to Apply

Qualified individuals interested in these positions can send their documents to the following email: [email protected]

Applications should be sent via email with the subject line: “ Data collection supervisors [Name of Applicant]” for Data collection supervisors

All application documents should be combined into one PDF file, the cover letter being the first page followed by the CV (resume) and other documents if any. Please provide us three names with their contact addresses as references. Send only one attachment with the file name format: “your full names_ Data collection supervisors.pdf”

N.B Applications not conforming to the above directions will NOT be considered. No phone calls please. Only short listed applicants will be contacted.

This vacancy is only open to Ethiopian Nationals, who must be eligible to live and work in Ethiopia.

Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.

Addis Ababa

JSI – Data Use Partnership (DUP) project
www.jsi.com

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Background

The Ethiopia Data Use Partnership (DUP) supports the Ministry of Health (MOH) in addressing current Health Information System (HIS) challenges on a national scale in both urban and rural settings. One of the DUP HIS intervention is working with Universities and RHBs for Capacity Building and Mentorship Project (CBMP) in eleven woredas found in all the regions. DUP also support implementation of focused and tailored HIS interventions packages in eight woredas as learning sites.  Health service access and better health outcomes are expected to improve when HIS performance is improved in the intervention woredas. However, the effect of the interventions on data use and health outcomes is not assessed.

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of performance of Health Information System(HIS) (in terms of data quality and data use) on coverage of maternal and child health services.

A pre and posttest with comparison group will be employed to guide the overall conduct of the study. Linked health facility and population-based survey will be conducted in both intervention and comparison woredas. Two separate studies (one for the learning sites and one for CBMP sites) will be conducted. Each study will apply two stage sampling procedure (first stage is selection of kebeles and second stage is selection of households) to select 30 kebeles (clusters) and 862 targeted HHs (for the population-based survey); and 30 health posts, about 20 health centers and 9 hospitals (for the facility survey).  Similar procedure and sample size will be utilized for the comparison group.

DUP is planning to collect data for this study from households and health facilities in the woredas mentioned above.

In order to achieve the data collection, DUP is seeking a short term contractual service of the following personnel:

Data collection supervisors who had proven experience of supervision and management of data collection

Overall objective of the assignment 

·                The overall objective of this assignment is to collect household and health facility level data on maternal and child health services; and health information system respectively.

Specific objectives of the assignment 

·       To collect household level data on maternal and child health services

·       To collect health facility level data on health information system

·       To supervise and manage the overall data collection

Number of supervisors needed for the data collection

The following number of supervisors are needed for this study:

·       Data collection supervisors – 18

Duration of the assignment

The data collection will be done from Sept 1- Oct 312020. The actual data collection will take a maximum of 20 days.

Duties and responsibilities

Data collection supervisors

·       Manage logistics and supplies for the data collection

·       Manage the time and effort of the data collection

·       In collaboration with data collectors, prepare micro plans for the data collection and effectively manage the movement of data collectors

·       Provide technical support and troubleshooting to the data collectors

·       Make sure that quality data is collected by each data collectors and submitted to the cloud server

·       Perform other activities related to the data collection when assigned by DUP

Management and coordination mechanism

DUP in collaboration with MOH will manage and oversee the overall data collection at national level. At regional level, DUP staff in collaboration with RHB staff will coordinate and manage the conduct of data collection.

Data collection supervisors will closely work with DUP regional staff in order to manage both technical and logistic issues related to the data collection. Data collection supervisors will regularly report to DUP regional staff in order to effectively manage the data collection and collect quality data for the study.

Data collection supervisor will manage the day-to day activities of the data collection at woreda, kebele and health facility levels. Data collection supervisor will manage the data collectors so that they are equipped with the necessary supplies and skills to conduct the assessment.

DUP will provide a five days training to data collectors and supervisors in order to equip them with the necessary skills covering sampling, data collection tool, SurveyCTO, and coordination of the data collection.

Job Requirements

Qualifications and experiences of supervisors  ·       Qualification– Minimum of master’s degree in relevant fields (health, statistics, social science, IT, etc)·       Experience- can demonstrate experience on both household and health facility level data collection, supervision and managementData collection tasks will be undertaken across the different regions of the country; and Knowledge of local languages of the region the data collector/supervisor is planning to work in (Amharic, Afan Oromo, Tigrigna, Somali, etc.) is a requirement.

How to Apply

Qualified individuals interested in these positions can send their documents to the following email: [email protected]

Applications should be sent via email with the subject line: " Data collection supervisors [Name of Applicant]" for Data collection supervisors

All application documents should be combined into one PDF file, the cover letter being the first page followed by the CV (resume) and other documents if any. Please provide us three names with their contact addresses as references. Send only one attachment with the file name format: “your full names_ Data collection supervisors.pdf”

N.B Applications not conforming to the above directions will NOT be considered. No phone calls please. Only short listed applicants will be contacted.

This vacancy is only open to Ethiopian Nationals, who must be eligible to live and work in Ethiopia.Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.

Addis Ababa

JSI - Data Use Partnership (DUP) project www.jsi.com

2020-08-11

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