Data collectors for the Rapid Assessment of the “Technical Assistance to the Establishment of Model Woredas for Seqota Declaration in Ethiopia” project

• Job Title: Data collectors for the Rapid Assessment of the “Technical Assistance to the Establishment of Model Woredas for Seqota Declaration in Ethiopia” project
• Location: Project woredas and Kebeles of Oromia, Sidama and Central Ethiopia Regions
• Duration: Five days
• Number required: 35 ( one for each project woreda)

The International Institute for Primary Health Care – Ethiopia (IPHC-E) is an organization affiliated with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MOH) and supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. IPHC-E provides technical assistance in Primary Health Care to the Ministry of Health and other countries through capacity building training, knowledge generation, management and sharing, program design and implementation. We support the MOH through evidence-based policy recommendations, training of PHC leaders for both young and established, implementation of innovation laboratories, and engagement on PHC related policy and strategy designs. We engage in global advocacy to bring PHC as a primary driver to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Ethiopia and beyond.

In addition to building the capacity of Primary Health Care systems in Ethiopia and across the globe, the Institute focuses heavily on projects which aim to ensure that programs are successfully implemented, lessons are documented and shared with policy makers and implementers with the goal of consolidating and scaling up innovations.

The Project

IPHC-E is collaborating on a project called “Technical Assistance to the Establishment of Model Woredas for Seqota Declaration in Ethiopia” which is a venture bringing together the MOH and IPHC-E with support from Big Win Philanthropy. The transformational goal of this project is to accelerate the reduction of childhood stunting by creating a synergistic approach between Community Labs, Growth Monitoring and Promotion and Yelemat Turufat. This partnership aims to establish replicable model woredas that can serve as a “lighthouse” for all woredas nationwide and beyond for driving sustainable nutrition improvements in Ethiopia.

Job Summary:

Thus, IPHC-E is seeking a skilled and experienced data collectors for the Rapid Assessment in 35 Woredas across three regions (21 woredas in Oromia, 4 in Sidama and 10 in Central Ethiopia Regions). The rapid assessment will include both quantitative and qualitative data collection from selected kebeles, woredas and regional level as appropriate. The rapid assessment result will provide inputs for project interventions as well as for monitoring and tracking project performance.

Role and Responsibilities:

The data collectors will report and work under the supervision of the rapid assessment supervisors and project team. The Data collectors will have the following responsibilities.

• Attend a two-day training on the data collection tools and get familiarized with the tools and the procedures to collect the data.
• As per the tool, collect data from assigned woredas and kebeles.
• As per the tool, collect qualitative data from assigned woredas and kebeles
• Transcribe and translate the qualitative data and submit the data on time.
• Incorporate any comments given from the project staff in the data collection process.
• Facilitate and take responsibility for submission of paper based and electronic data during and after the data collection process in a format agreed upon.
• Draft and submit field report at the end of the data collection.

Other activities assigned by the rapid assessment supervisor and project team.