Consultant Terms of Reference– Eyu-Ethiopia’s Five-year Strategic Plan Development

  Background

Ethiopia, the second most populous country in Africa with above 100 million population, has one of the highest burdens of visual impairment worldwide. Despite this huge burden, there are no adequate eye care services in most parts of Ethiopia and those existing are unsustainable disease focused vertical programs with no or limited integration with the wider health system.

Eyu Ethiopia (EE) a non–profit organization established to address this gap by reducing the burden of avoidable blindness in Ethiopia through research, training and integrated community-based service delivery. The annual budget of Eyu-Ethiopia for the year 2021 is about 7 million Ethiopian Birr. Its anticipated that its budget will increase by two-fold in the coming five consecutive years.

Eyu-Ethiopia is registered as a local charity organization by the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Agency for Civil Society Organizations in accordance with the Civil Society Organizations Proclamation No 1113/2019 on June 11, 2019 with the registration number 4209.

Objectives

 General

The overall objective of this consultancy is to support the development of Eyu-Ethiopia’s five-year Strategic Plan (2022-2026).

Specific

• Produce Eyu-Ethiopia’s five years strategic plan aligned with its partners and Ethiopia’s national eye health strategic plan (2022-2026) and mainstreamed with gender equity and disability inclusion approaches.
•  Facilitate strategic plan consultation meetings and validation workshop with Eyu-Ethiopia and its key stakeholders.

You can get full detail of the ToR from the link below

Strategic Plan TOR_V3_8Sep21_EthioJobs.docx

Academic Qualifications

At least a master’s degree in a relevant field in the area of Project Management, Public Health, Economics, and Development Studies.

Experience

• At least five years professional experience in health care strategic planning
• Demonstrated experience in working with government partners and other stakeholders in public sector development programs especially in the area of health
• Evidence of work experience of developing strategic plan for health care non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and preferably eye health NGOs.
• Experience in healthcare research, healthcare system development and leadership, designing organizational capacity assessment tools, and other programming related work

Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent English writing skill with high level ability to write in a clear and concise manner
• Result-oriented, team player, exhibiting high levels of enthusiasm, tact, diplomacy and integrity
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and professional skills in interacting with government and development partners
• Skills in facilitation of stakeholder engagements/ meeting and workshops
• Appropriate knowledge and skills in gender and disability issues
• Ability to establish effective working relationships with people in a multi-cultural environment
• Specialization in monitoring and evaluation
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and support