Vacancies at African Population And Health Research Center (APHRC)

Situational Analysis

The consultant will use a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to assess APHRC’s gender equality and gender mainstreaming efforts, analyzing institutional documents, staff perceptions, partnership agreements, and external collaborations. The analysis will include:

• Document Review:Conduct a comprehensive review of APHRC’s internal documents (e.g., HR policies, strategic plan) and external agreements with partners(e.g., Memorandums of Understanding)) to evaluate how gender equality is embedded.
• Interviews, Surveys and Focus Groups:Conduct engagements with APHRC staff and management, as well as external partners, to gather insights on the current gender policy and practice landscape with regards to trends, gaps, and opportunities.
• Stakeholder Mapping:Identify and analyze key external stakeholders and thought leaders involved in gender equality efforts that APHRC engages with or could potentially collaborate with.
• Data Analysis:Evaluate the data from document reviews and staff engagements (surveys, interviews and focus groups) to identify gaps and challenges in gender mainstreaming, and provide context-based evidence to inform actionable recommendations.

Scoping Review

• The consultant will use qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies to review existing evidence in the gender landscape with regards to emerging trends, shifts and gaps in research, interventions and practices globally. The consultant will indicate the eligibility criteria for documents to be reviewed as aligned with the goals of the scoping review. The consultant will indicate the data extraction tool(s), the analysis method(s) and the analysis framework that will anchor the scoping review.

Key tasks and outputs

Situational Analysis

• Conduct an extensive desk review of APHRC’s key institutional documents, including gender specific policies, to determine the extent of gender equality and gender mainstreaming in its policies, programs and activities, including gaps, constraints, and opportunities.
• Conduct individual and/or group interviews, staff surveys and focus group discussions to seek staff views on APHRC’s gender equality and gender mainstreaming efforts in relation to its 2022-2026 strategic goals.
• Assess the capacity and practices of APHRC’s collaborating partners to deliver gender-transformative outputs that complement APHRC’s gender equality and gender mainstreaming efforts and outputs.
• Propose a gender mainstreaming monitoring, evaluation and learning plan, co-created with APHRC staff and collaborating partners, indicating roles and responsibilities of each entity, including indicators for measuring success of actions outlined.
• A 3-page situational analysis inception report describing the approach including interpretation of the Terms of Reference (ToR), methodology, and work plan.
• A comprehensive report of the findings, analysis, and recommendations. The final report should incorporate feedback and recommendations from APHRC’s staff.
• A PowerPoint presentation of findings and recommendations to APHRC staff.
• Soft copies of ALL reference materials used in the review, analysis, and report.

Scoping Review

• A 3-page scoping review inception report describing the approach including interpretation of the ToR, methodology, and work plan.
• A comprehensive publishable scoping review report of the findings, analysis, and recommendations. The final report should incorporate feedback and recommendations from APHRC’s staff.
• A PowerPoint presentation of findings and recommendations to APHRC staff.
• Soft copies of ALL reference materials used in the review, analysis, and report.

Qualifications and Experience

• A Masters’ degree in Gender Studies, Development Studies, Social Work, Anthropology, Economics, Social Sciences or a related field.
• A strong background in gender work with more than three (3) years in gender analysis, monitoring, mainstreaming and implementation techniques within an African context.
• Proven experience working on similar tasks within academic or research organizations, non-profits, or institutions with a similar mission to that of APHRC.
• Knowledge of key/emerging gender priorities and issues in the African research, funding, and policy landscape, systems, and approaches focusing on the African context.
• Minimum 3 years of experience collecting primary data and field work.
• Demonstrated ability to write high quality, methodologically sound, analytical documents.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills and sensitivity to gender and diverse groups within the institution and its collaborating partners.
• Have a good working knowledge of the quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methods commonly used in research projects.

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Contribute to the development of APHRC’s evidence use agenda through utility of data science and/or artificial intelligence tools including data mining, development of data visualization tools, and statistical modelling among others.
• Contribute to the application of innovative analytics to systematically extract information from data sets that are too large/complex to be dealt with by traditional approaches.
• Contribute to the development of APHRC’s evidence use agenda through utility of data science and/or artificial intelligence tools including data mining, development of data visualization tools, and statistical modelling, among others.
• Assists in managing projects efficiently and contribute to fundraising efforts through proposal development, securing grants, and building partnerships to support APHRC’s research and impact goals.
• Be responsible for, and coordinate the processes of tracking, collating, organizing, and making available population health data from diverse sources.
• Lead the development of study protocols and tools and ensure ethical approvals and research permits are obtained.
• Secure and manage the necessary human, financial and material resources of the project.
• Lead the development of project reports.
• Oversee data quality and analyses.
• Contribute to proposal development and fundraising for research projects in the unit.
• Mentor junior researchers and facilitate the Center’s training programs as needed.
• Represent the Center at high-level national, regional, and international forums, including relevant technical working groups and expert committees.
• Contribute to the development of information systems and provision of analytical methodological support and advice to researchers.
• Define own area of research interest in data science/statistics/public health through developing proposals, concept notes, and publishing in the area.
• Contribute to institutional publications including but not limited to lay dissemination materials such as policy/research briefs and fact sheets; and contribute to policy engagement and the unit’s strategic planning.

Qualifications and Experience:

• PhD in Statistics, Data Science, Biostatistics, Health Informatics or equivalent in related disciplines with a specialization in R; graduated in the last 2 years.
• Data management, programming and modelling experience.
• Demonstrated experience in applying big data analytics, preferably in healthcare.
• Evidence of publications is an essential requirement.
• Highly motivated and committed to biomedical research.
• Interest in Epidemiology and preferably chronic diseases including multimorbidity.