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Up to 25 % international travel (once restrictions are lifted)
Reports to Senior Research Advisor, SRH
PSI seeks an innovative Research Advisor to provide technical leadership for high quality, relevant, and insightful analyses across an array of data workstreams in Uganda and Nigeria. This position is a key part of the Evidence and Learning team in the DISC project-- a $18-million five-year self-care project made possible with the generous support of the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF).
The DISC project is working with consumers, healthcare providers, governments and health systems in Nigeria and Uganda to catalyze voluntary self-injection of DMPA-SC contraceptives and promote additional forms of self-care. The investment aims to better understand the conditions under which consumers and providers will demand self-care interventions, and the feasibility of delivering high quality, cost-effective self-care services at scale.
As a flagship project of PSI, we are part of PSI’s organizational pursuit of universal health coverage through innovative and sustainable solutions that meet the actual health needs of people in low and middle income countries. We believe all people can and should have control of their sexuality, sexual health and fertility and that this is best achieved when people have greater voice, choice and agency over the processes and services that most affect them. Our mission is clear: every woman and girl – and every man and boy – should have access to the products, information and services they need to plan for the families, and lives, they desire. Access to quality-assured contraception and safe abortion where it is legal is part of that package.
Our evidence and learning objectives align with this. The DISC project emphasizes a rigorous relationship to evidence generation and use throughout its design and implementation phases, requiring innovation to enable safe and ethical research practices in the current COVID19 scenario. How can we know if we’re reaching – and satisfying - clients and consumers with quality care and products that meet their needs? How can we be sure we’re on the right track to meet our commitments both to innovation as well as sustainable health impact? How can we generate and use evidence to continuously refine our understanding of our clients’ complete user journey, from awareness through continuation and advocacy? How can we see their journey across the diverse points of service on which they rely, both public and private sector? How can we do all of this in a timely way, while ensuring rigor that responds to our technical community? How can we use our evidence to inspire, and achieve even more?
We’re looking for someone who reads these questions and feels a fire inside to get them answered. With activities evolving rapidly across Uganda and Nigeria, and at our hub locations in Kenya and the US, DISC seeks a Research Advisor who is a skilled quantitative researcher, eager to play a leading role as part of DISC’s Evidence & Learning team, and who is committed to supporting others to join them in this Evidence & Learning journey.
Experience with multi-country projects emphasizing evidence use for adaptation and learning; familiarity working across public and private sectors; sexual and reproductive health programs; design and execution of diverse research methods including client exit interviews, mystery clients, and pilot assessments of complex interventions, will all be parts of this position. We’re looking for someone who is eager to lead in taking all of this to the ‘next level’ as we learn how to advance self-care as a new, consumer-powered cornerstone of sexual and reproductive health care.
Sound like you? Read on.
Your contribution
This position will require close coordination and collaboration with the DISC core and country teams, as well as with PSI’s Senior Research Advisor, and the Strategy and Insights department. You will play a leading role within the DISC Evidence and Learning team to ensure DISC country research aligns with protocols and ethical guidelines, and effectively speak to DISC evidence objectives. Our ultimate focus is learn about what it takes to help self-care advance consumer-powered SRH care across private and public sectors. You will play a key role in helping us build this larger body of evidence and learning. Your specific contributions will include:
What are we looking for?
The basics:
The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:
All applicants MUST have work authorization for Kenya.
Status: This role is contingent upon funding
Interested applicants should submit a current Curriculum Vitae no later than December 11th, 2020 to jobs@psinairobi.org.
Subject: Research Advisor, DISC or Monitoring Advisor, DISC
Applications will be screened on a rolling basis until a suitable candidate is identified. References will be required
The service is expected to start in January 2021
PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.
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