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  • Posted: Dec 6, 2024
    Deadline: Dec 27, 2024
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    The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is leading Africa-based, African-led, international research institution headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and conducting policy-relevant research on population, health, education, urbanization and related development issues on the continent.
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    PHD Fellowship Opportunity

    Duties/ Responsibilities:

    • Work alongside a multidisciplinary team at APHRC to provide support in desk reviews, qualitative and quantitative field data collection and analyses;
    • Collaborate and work with the project team to identify and establish stakeholder engagement;
    • Supports project dissemination activities such as manuscript and report writing;
    • Identify and propose appropriate venues to convene in-country stakeholder engagement forums;
    • Document in-country processes and sessions with stakeholders; and
    • Attend project-related meetings as required.

    Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

    • A master’s degree in public health, economics, medical, social and biological sciences or other relevant fields.
    • Experience in qualitative research including the use of software such as Atlas ti, NVivo or opencode.
    • Demonstrable experience, ability, and practical skills in statistics and knowledge in statistical software including R, STATA Excel and other tabulations software.
    • Demonstrable ability to organize and prioritize work efficiently while delivering results to the required standard and to an agreed schedule.
    • Ability to draft manuscripts for publication and present results at conferences.
    • Applicant must be a full-time staff who has spent at least three years working at the Center.

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    Re-advertisement: Consultancy to Facilitate the Engagement of People With Mental Health Lived Experience in the Mental Health Data Prize

    The consultant will lead the development of a conceptual framework and strategy on how to engage people with lived experience in the MHDP-Africa at different levels of project implementation. This will include detailed guidelines on effective involvement, ensuring meaningful participation, and leveraging their insights to enhance the impact and relevance. The Consultant will work closely with MHDP-Africa Project team and will be responsible to the MHDP-Africa Project Lead at APHRC.

    Scope of Work

    • In collaboration with APHRC’s MHDP-Africa project team, the consultant is expected to develop a strategy and conceptual framework for engaging people with lived experience (PLE) in the MHDP – Africa project.
    • Identify the mental health lived experience expertise required for assessing applications and report on needs assessment.
    • In collaboration with APHRC MHDP-Africa project team, prepare a training manual and facilitate workshops with lived experience team members to generate insights and perspectives to inform project development and implementation.
    • Support mental health lived experience team members of the MHDP-Africa project grantees to deliver presentations focusing on their unique perspectives that complement data-driven analyses.
    • Collaborate with the MHDP-Africa project team to develop a Monitoring and Evaluation (M &E) logical frameworks (e.g use OECD, WHO, USAID and Measure Evaluation resources) to monitor and evaluate the engagement of PLE in MHDP – Africa. The framework should clearly define key indicators and metrics to measure the effectiveness and impact of PLE involvement throughout the project lifecycle.
    • Prepare a write-up or whitepaper on good practices for engaging PLE based on available global evidence or APHRC MHDP-Africa project experiences that can be made publicly available through APHRC or related blog platforms (in French/English/Arabic).
    • In collaboration with APHRC MHDP-Africa project team, conduct at least two media interviews through national and international media/platforms on engaging PLEs. The purpose of media engagements is to highlight the successes/impact and challenges of PLE involvement in the MHDP-Africa project to inspire broader engagement and support.
    • Engage each prize participant to position expectations around PLE including their involvement.
    • Participate in regular project meetings and update progress and inform the mechanisms to monitor ongoing feedback from PLE throughout the project lifecycle; to address cultural nuances for a more inclusive and responsive process.
    • Collaborating with country-specific researchers to increase LE community engagement and participation in the study.
    • In collaboration with APHRC MHDP-Africa project team, design ways to develop a community of practices and or a peer support group or network for the PWLEs to facilitate connections within the PLE group for sharing learnings amongst themselves.
    • Facilitate data use and evidence generation from LE perspectives with the goals of improving mental health interventions, policy formulation, and service delivery in the African region. These include promotion of inclusion of LE perspectives, monitoring how their views and perspectives are included among selected prize winners and etc.
    • Ensure involvement and inclusion of PLE within projects team diversity/composition.
    • Outline and ensure ethical consideration for engaging PLE in the prize applications.
    • Submit bi-weekly project progress report to the project manager.

    Deliverables

    • Develop a strategic plan and conceptual framework.
    • Framing of lived experience involvement in mental health data prize – Africa application process.
    • Identifying the expertise required for assessing applications.
    • Develop a monitoring and evaluation framework for PLE involvement.
    • Conduct and prepare a report on the need’s assessment for PLEs.
    • Developing criteria for assessing LE expectations.
    • Prepare the training manual and cascade training.
    • Create training to support LE team members
    • Upskilling LE team members
    • Prepare and submit a report
    • Lead communication around LE involvement.
    • Final pitch event.
    • Support LE team members to deliver presentations focusing on their unique perspective that complements data-driven analyses; insights gained, and the impact of those experiences on the project or product being showcased at the final conference.

    Timeframe

    This will be a 12-month’s contract which will commence in January, 2025 and conclude by December, 2025.

    Responsibilities of the APHRC MHDP – Project Team

    • Provide relevant project background documents.
    • Liaise and assist in communicating with and mobilizing key
    • Handle all logistical
    • Closely work with the consultant on the development, implementation, and evaluation of the LE engagement.

    Qualifications and Experience

    This is an individual consultancy assignment requiring a person with experience in the design, facilitation and documentation of strategic plans on engaging mental health lived experiences or community empowerment models. The successful applicant should submit relevant work experiences working in such an environment and developing lived experience frameworks. The consultant must be available to do the work between January and December, 2025.

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    Quantitative Field Interviewer: Nihr-Shine Project- Nairobi

    • APHRC seeks to recruit qualified and experienced quantitative field interviewers who are residents of Nairobi informal settlements, particularly Lari and Gatundu North sub-counties where the study's Baseline Survey is planned to take place in January and February 2025.

    Responsibilities: 

    • Participate in training and data collection for the project. Identifying study boundaries and participants as defined in the study.
    • Consenting study participants.
    • Conducting face-to-face interviews with sampled participants as sampled for the study.
    • Ensuring the agreed daily output set for the study is met
    • Ensuring quality output and adhering to data governance and ethical principles.
    • Review all completed interviews for the day to ensure completeness and internal consistency before data is synchronized.
    • Compiling and submitting daily work progress reports to the immediate supervisor.
    • Reviewing and correcting inconsistencies identified from data quality checks from the database.
    • Ensuring the safety of all survey tools and equipment as may be assigned for use in the study.
    • Attending and participating in all routine project meetings.
    • Ensuring that study participants in the assigned sample list are fully accounted for by the end of the data collection period

    Minimum requirements:

    • Must have at least a KCSE (C+) and above.
    • Be proficient in microcomputer applications and experienced in electronic data capture.
    • Be fluent in English and Kiswahili or Kikuyu for Kiambu applicants.
    • Possess strong interpersonal, communication (written and oral), and facilitation skills.
    • Have proven experience in quantitative and qualitative or community-based participatory research methods.
    • Proven experience working in mixed methods research projects on mental health or projects involving community health volunteers.
    • Proven experience working with households in informal settlements and rural contexts.
    • Be prepared to work full-time on the project for the study duration.

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    Quantitative Field Interviewer: Nihr-Shine Project- Kiambu

    • APHRC seeks to recruit qualified and experienced quantitative field interviewers who are residents of Nairobi informal settlements, particularly Lari and Gatundu North sub-counties where the study's Baseline Survey is planned to take place in January and February 2025.

    Responsibilities: 

    • Participate in training and data collection for the project. Identifying study boundaries and participants as defined in the study.
    • Consenting study participants.
    • Conducting face-to-face interviews with sampled participants as sampled for the study.
    • Ensuring the agreed daily output set for the study is met
    • Ensuring quality output and adhering to data governance and ethical principles.
    • Review all completed interviews for the day to ensure completeness and internal consistency before data is synchronized.
    • Compiling and submitting daily work progress reports to the immediate supervisor.
    • Reviewing and correcting inconsistencies identified from data quality checks from the database.
    • Ensuring the safety of all survey tools and equipment as may be assigned for use in the study.
    • Attending and participating in all routine project meetings.
    • Ensuring that study participants in the assigned sample list are fully accounted for by the end of the data collection period

    Minimum requirements:

    • Must have at least a KCSE (C+) and above.
    • Be proficient in microcomputer applications and experienced in electronic data capture.
    • Be fluent in English and Kiswahili or Kikuyu for Kiambu applicants.
    • Possess strong interpersonal, communication (written and oral), and facilitation skills.
    • Have proven experience in quantitative and qualitative or community-based participatory research methods.
    • Proven experience working in mixed methods research projects on mental health or projects involving community health volunteers.
    • Proven experience working with households in informal settlements and rural contexts.
    • Be prepared to work full-time on the project for the study duration.

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