The International Institute for Primary Health Care -Ethiopia (IPHC-E), which was inaugurated on February 1, 2016, is envisioned to be a world class hub that will disseminate Ethiopia’s experience using Primary Health Care (PHC) approaches to achieve dramatic improvements in health. The Institute also strives to provide a global perspective—historical and current—of PHC experience around the world. The mission of the Institute is to proactively engage and drive the advancement of local and global PHC policy and programming. The Institute provides need-based capacity building training in PHC for trainees from Ethiopia, Africa and the rest of the world. Through PHC implementation research, the Institute provides up-to-date information on the strengths and weaknesses of Ethiopia’s own PHC program and contributes to continually building an even stronger PHC program that ensures fidelity to standards of care and high levels of service coverage for the population. To realize these aspiration, the Institute focuses on four programmatic areas: global support, local support, PHC advocacy, knowledge management, and capacity building.

Project Background

Globally women make up the majority of workers in the health sector, even though this is not reflected in roles of leadership in global health as women comprise 70 percent of healthcare workforce, and 90 percent of nursing and midwifery workforce but they hold only 25 percent of leadership roles. Women in global health face specific and unique challenges to reaching leadership roles including lack of mentorship, gender biases, harassment, and gendered networks, institutions, and processes. With the growing demography in low-and middle-income countries and thereby increasing need for health care, there is a need to generate more data and evidence on this topic.

IPHCE in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is working with the Global Financing Facility and GAVI to generate evidence for investing in women’s leadership in global health and document the impact of this investment on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) and immunization outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). So in order to identify leaders’ thoughts, we have already collected survey data from 708 study participants out of 50 countries in SSA.

So, we are currently advertising this short-term consultancy for a qualified individual who will analyze the survey data and submit the Quantitative Analysis including the report for the project lead.

In general, the objectives of the Survey within the RMNCAHN and Immunization spaces are to:

Identify evidence to support investment in women’s leadership and explore the impact of women’s leadership in RMNCAH-N and immunization and more broadly, at the global, national, sub-national, and community levels, including women leaders’ own perceptions and experiences of leadership and the impact they have.

Identify organizational and other factors which support women leaders in having an impact, including the leadership tools and resources women leaders have access to.

Identify the barriers faced by women leaders in Immunization and RMNCAH-N to be impactful in decision making/leadership positions, including biases faced by women leaders.

Job Overview

The survey analysis expert will understand the objective of the survey, conduct analysis and report timely based on the given period.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare work plan for this activity with timeline and submit,
• Follow the direction provided by the Project Lead and study team to use the standard analysis platform,
• Carrying out cleaning of data, analyze using appropriate software and update its progress,
• Provide all the necessary support for the project during the quantitative analysis,
• Attend routine team meetings, update progress and communicate with Project Lead for any concern,
• Deliver the data analysis as needed or based on the need of the study team, and
• Deliver the overall report to the Project Lead.

Funding Source: Global Financing Facility (GFF)

Term of employment: One month (Starting from Aug 26, 2024)

Requirements

Education Background and work experience

• BSc plus MPH or MD plus MPH with minimum of five years’ experience in the area of public health and statistics
• Familiar with handling huge survey data.
• Demonstrated experience in quantitative data analysis of broader geography.
• Demonstrated experience in writing findings and the report
• High personal motivation and willingness to base and work in the field
• Excellent oral and written communication skills