mothers2mothers,Evaluation Consultancy jobs in Malawi

Evaluation
Consultancy – Malawi

mothers2mothers
(m2m) Malawi has partnered with United Nations International Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) since July 2013 under the Optimizing
Access to Simplified HIV Treatment to Reduce New HIV Infections among Children
(OHTA) program. For the consolidation phase of this project, m2m is
conducting an
implementation research project on adolescent girls and young
women in HIV and PMTCT care in Malawi with UNICEF’s support. The objective of
the research is to use qualitative methods to gather empirical data as to the
gaps and areas for investment and innovation around Sexual Reproductive Health
and Rights (SRHR) issues that adolescent girls face – with a special focus on
PMTCT.

Scope of
Work

· Conduct a
literature review to consolidate findings from existing literature on
Adolescent HIV Care, Teen Pregnancies, and Youth focused Services within
sub-Saharan Africa generally, and Malawi specifically

· Conduct
qualitative implementation research amongst adolescents around needs, barriers
and facilitators to accessing SRHR and PMTCT services.

Deliverables

· Research work plan
with clear timeframes as well as process and output milestones;

· Stand-alone
literature review that covers all components outlined in this scope of work.
Including an electronic database of citations (i.e. endnote, refworks format,
etc.) and full cited literature in PDF format.

· Methodology
document, including report structure, analytical framework/analysis plan, data
collection instruments.

· Ethics clearance
certificate / documentation, and documentation of other forms of written
permission required and obtained.

· Regular (monthly)
written progress reports and briefing sessions

· Research report

· Draft research
report

· Presentation to
the research steering committee and/or management

· Final research
report

· Delivery of
original transcripts (in electronic form), audio recordings, qualitative
data-sets and for the research, and acknowledgement of m2m’s right to publish
the data.

Qualifications
and Experience

The Service Provider
should comprise an individual, or team of suitably-qualified and experienced
personnel, with sufficient technical experience to fulfil all roles:

· A qualitative
research specialist with a minimum of seven years’ experience in qualitative research
in an African context

· Demonstrated
ability to design and plan the research approaches and research methodologies.
This should include skills and expertise required to design, plan and conduct
and analyse qualitative data;

· Relevant subject
matter knowledge and experience in adolescent health, sexual and reproductive
health, and/or HIV/AIDS is an advantage;

· Ability to manage
a potentially large-scale and complex research process, including interpreting
complex qualitative data and drawing conclusions and recommendations;

· Ability to design,
manage and implement primary research in potentially challenging project
environments. This may include the design of surveys, in-depth interviews,
focus group and other research approaches;

· Experience working
in developing country contexts is essential. At least one member of the
research team should be a Malawian national

· Appropriate
country knowledge/experience, including language proficiency to conduct the
research required

Duration: Approximately January 2017 –
October 2017

Interested service
providers are invited to view the full terms of reference, including required
components of the research proposal here: www.m2m.org/careers.
Proposals should be submitted to recruitment2@m2m.org by 16 January 2016.