Background

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Strengthening Systems for Better Health Activity is looking for “Consultant, Data Collection, Data Entry, Data Transcription and Translation” for the “Assessment of Neonatal and child Health Referrals from Private Points of Care in Karnali Province”. This assessment aims to better understand neonatal and under-five children caregiver health seeking decision making, private health sector referral practices and patient experiences, and (to a certain extent) care outcomes. This will assist, in particular with, improving streamlined private patient handling and referral procedures, as well as clarifying other patient-side barriers to neonatal and under-five children care in seeking care within a joint private-public care environment. 

We are looking for qualified individuals, for Data Collection, Data Entry, Data Transcription and Translation.    

Number of Individuals Required: 4 

Number of Days: Up to 30 days  

Duty Station: Dailekh, Kalikot, Rukum West, Surkhet in Karnali Province 

Period of Performance: The consultancy will take place from mid October through December 30, 2021 

Key Tasks: Consultants - Data Collection, Data Entry, and Data Transcription, will work with USAID’s Strengthening Systems for Better Health’s Assessment team. The Consultants will be engaged in data collection, transcribing, data entry, data cleaning and editing for “Assessment of Neonatal and Child Health Referrals from Private Points of Care in Karnali Province”.

Qualifications, Competencies and Skills Required:

• Preferably a Public Health Graduate with exposure to neonatal and child health clinical services.  
• Past experience of qualitative data collection (such as in-depth interviews, focus group discussion, key informant interviews) and research data management. 
• Past experience of data transcription. 
• Strong interpersonal communication and writing skills. 
• Highly organized with an ability to work in teams
• Willingness to travel to any of the four municipalities of Karnali Province. 
• Data collectors are preferred from or working in the Karnali Province.

SSBH is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender and culture. Individuals from minority groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. Only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further selection process. Canvassing at any stage of the processes shall lead to automatic disqualification.