{"id":84596,"date":"2020-03-19T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T10:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/?p=84596"},"modified":"2020-03-19T11:58:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T10:58:51","slug":"international-rescue-committee-irc-current-employment-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/international-rescue-committee-irc-current-employment-opportunity.html","title":{"rendered":"The International Rescue Committee (IRC) Current Employment Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster.<\/p>\n
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. The IRC leads the way from harm to home. We are recruiting to fill the position below:<\/p>\n
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Job Title: Consultant, Health Facility Assessment for the “Health Resilience of North-East Nigeria (HeRoN)” Consortium Project<\/strong> Background Information<\/strong> In the last ten years, conflict in the North-East has exacerbated that situation, contributing to the deterioration of health facilities and the breakdown of public services. With only 11 percent of facilities functioning (50 percent are non-functioning, 39 percent are fully destroyed[5]), primary healthcare services, gender-based violence clinical management and reproductive healthcare is either lacking, inaccessible or seriously under-resourced. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in partnership with Action Against Hunger UK (AAH) and Society for Family Health (SFH) recently secured funding from DFID\/USAID for a project entitled Health Resilience in Northeast Nigeria (HeRoN).\u00a0 The HeRoN project aims at ensuring that crisis-affected communities in Borno and Yobe states have meaningful access to quality primary health and nutrition services, while contributing to sustained capacity building for health systems strengthening at LGA level. The project\u2019s overall impact is to ensure that lives are saved and suffering is reduced for the poorest and most vulnerable persons in North-East Nigeria through the establishment of strong and more resilient health systems. The project focuses on ensuring that people (with particular focus on women, girls, and other marginalized groups) are protected from and treated for the main causes of morbidity and mortality.<\/p>\n The project outcomes are interconnected, leading to overall anticipated impact. The project theory of change entails three causal pathways addressing access to quality services, demand\/ behavior change and health systems strengthening (HSS). The assumption is that if people \u2013 particularly women, girls and other marginalized groups \u2013 have access to and receive timely, quality and effective primary health and nutrition services, and if services are effectively planned, managed, and budgeted, then people in targeted LGAs will adopt healthy behaviors that prevent acquisition and spread of new disease and mitigate the severity of existing disease, and will be protected from and treated for the main causes of morbidity and mortality. Success will depend on cross-cutting outputs including the degree to which people of diverse backgrounds influence how health services are delivered, how response interventions are coordinated, how learning is used to generate best practice\/ evidence that impacts policy, and how social norms shift to support women, girls and marginalized groups to make decisions on their health.<\/p>\n Outcome 1<\/strong> Outcome 2<\/strong> Outcome 3<\/strong> The purpose of the Health Facility Assessment (HFA):<\/strong><\/p>\n Specific objectives of the HFA:<\/strong><\/p>\n Scope of Work and Deliverables:<\/strong><\/p>\n Detailed health facility assessment in a sample of around half of the targeted health facilities, working closely with the IRC health team to develop\/review Health Facility Assessment Tools.\u00a0 The assessment includes (but is not limited to):<\/p>\n Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice survey in sample locations from target LGAs in Borno and Yobe states[6] (likely to be in the region of 20-25 LGAs), to provide insights to outcome 2: People seek timely services and take informed actions. This task will include (but is not limited to):<\/p>\n Produce one comprehensive report that includes presentation of findings and insights for all three components (desk review, matrix, Health Facility Assessment and Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice Survey), identification of cross-cutting themes, and presentation of corresponding baseline values. This task will include:<\/p>\n Methodology<\/strong> Indicative timeframe and budget:<\/strong><\/p>\n Qualifications<\/strong> To apply\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Interested and qualified candidates should be addressed to the “HR Coordinator (Joan Wuya)” via:\u00a0Joan.Wuya@rescue.org<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0stating the subject line \u201cHeRoN Baseline Survey\u201d<\/p>\n Application Deadline:\u00a0<\/strong>20th March, 2020.<\/p>\n Click Here for More Information<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Proposal deadlines and Contact Details<\/strong> Ethical standards and Intellectual Property<\/strong><\/p>\n The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein,…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17],"tags":[2642],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nLocation:\u00a0<\/strong>Maiduguri, Borno
\nRequisition ID:<\/strong> Req8639
\nSector:<\/strong> Health
\nEmployment Category:<\/strong> Consultant
\nEmployment Type:<\/strong> Full-Time
\nOpen to Expatriates:<\/strong> Not Applicable<\/p>\n
\nPublic healthcare in Nigeria has suffered from years of under funding, ranking in 2016 as one of the lowest healthcare expenditures in Africa and the world[1]. This has contributed to Nigeria having the second highest total maternal mortality, second highest child mortality and some of the highest global rates of malaria, HIV, TB and neglected tropical diseases[2]. Immunization coverage is dangerously low[3] and while many health interventions are donor funded, the country is expected to be ineligible for a range of foreign health financing, including from the Global Fund and World Bank, over the next two decades[4].<\/p>\n
\nQuality primary health and nutrition services are available and accessible:<\/p>\n\n
\nPeople seek timely services and take informed actions to prevent new disease, and spread of existing disease including malnutrition:<\/p>\n\n
\nServices are effectively planned, managed and budgeted (facility and community level):<\/p>\n\n
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\nFor both the health facility assessment and the survey, the IRC suggests a mixed methods approach, integrating quantitative and qualitative methods, ensuring collection and reporting of corresponding baseline data.\u00a0 Data triangulation and integration including Key Informant Interviews, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with beneficiaries, observations of existing infrastructure, and service delivery components at the facilities will be essential.\u00a0 The consultant is free to suggest an appropriate methodology that fully addresses all ToR requirements with reference to the following:<\/p>\n\n
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\nProfile of consultant(s)
\nThe Health Facility Assessment and Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices survey call is open to all interested and qualified national and\/or international consultants meeting the under-listed criteria:<\/p>\n\n
\nThis consultancy assignment is anticipated to start in April, lasting between 35-40 working days including final report submission. The deadline for submission of technical and financial Expression of Interests and other accompanying documents is 20 March 2020 at 12:00am Western Africa Standard Time (GMT +1). The criteria for submitting Expression of Interests are outlined below:<\/p>\n\n
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