Health Evaluation Expert SoCha LLC

Company Profile:

SoCha (a portmanteau of Social and Change) is an independent Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (ME&L) firm that provides bespoke solutions to social challenges. Since our inception in 2010, we have grown into a fully-fledged ME&L services firm specializing in advancing innovative methodologies and changing how donors find solutions to social problems.

Background:

The USAID/Zambia Monitoring, Learning & Evaluation Platform (Z-MELP) provides technical assistance across the USAID/Zambia Mission’s Program Cycle management-related tasks, primarily for the Program Office and Technical offices.

USAID/Zambia’s Eradicate Tuberculosis Activity (ETB) works in partnership with the Ministry of Health’s National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Program, the private sector, and other partners at the community, facility, district, provincial, and national levels to strengthen the implementation of key components of the national response to control Tuberculosis across Zambia.

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Scope of work:

The Local Health Evaluation Expert will support the Team Lead in the successful execution of an endline evaluation for the USAID/Zambia Eradicate Tuberculosis Activity. In addition to providing technical inputs to the evaluation; the Local Health Evaluation Expert will provide backstopping and quality assurance that will be further complemented by inputs from the Lusaka-based Z-MELP team and SoCha’s Home Office.

The Local Expert will have responsibility for collecting and analyzing primary data, as well as contributing to the drafting of the evaluation report.

The endline evaluation will address the following questions:

• What lessons learned and/or best practices should be taken from ETB to inform the implementation of other (existing) TB-focused activities, and the design of new activities focused on TB eradication?
• Were the ETB staffing and partnership structures optimal for achieving project objectives?
• To what extent are ETB methodologies, interventions, and management setting the stage for the future sustainability of project outputs and outcomes?
• What institutional capacity has ETB built within the MOH and other stakeholders (private sector, Zambian research institutions) to generate sustainability for the processes and outputs achieved?

The above questions will be reflected against three cross-cutting issues, namely: equity (including gender), localization, and anti-corruption.

Timeline:

The National Health Evaluation Expert will be expected to commence their duties by August 1, 2022. The duration of the assignment is expected to be (4) four months.

Qualifications and Experience:

The National Health Evaluation Expert will have experience working with Public Health programs in Zambia.

• Advanced degree in a field related to Public Health.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in undertaking evaluations of public health programs, with direct experience related to TB programming being preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in undertaking evaluations of public health programs, with direct experience related to TB programming being preferred.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in health systems of TB programming in Zambia preferred.
• Strong qualitative data collection and analysis skills, including with proficiency in relevant software such as NVivo.
• Previous experience undertaking evaluations for USAID preferred.
• Excellent communication, writing, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal, intercultural, and leadership skills.
• Fluency in spoken and written English required, and at least any two local languages spoken in Lusaka, Central, and Copperbelt Provinces – e.g., Bemba and Nyanja.
• Advanced degree in a field related to Public Health.
• Zambian nationality.

Place of Performance: 

Lusaka, Zambia, with occasional travel within Zambia.