About PCI and RIPA Project:
Founded in 1961, PCI is an international non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing health, ending hunger, overcoming hardship, and advance women and girls around the world. In 2018, PCI served more than 12 million people in 15 countries across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. During the past 50 years, the organization has served millions more in 14 additional countries. PCI has five decades of experience and demonstrated impact in long-term development and community health, and 40 years of experience managing large-scale US Government (USG) grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. It manages a portfolio of integrated programming that includes significant projects addressing reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health; food, nutrition, and livelihood security; HIV/AIDS; other diseases; water, sanitation, and hygiene; and humanitarian assistance/disaster risk reduction programs.
The Resilience in Pastoral Areas (RIPA) project in Ethiopia is a multi-million dollar, US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project that will improve resilience to enhance food security and inclusive economic growth. This multifaceted activity is expected to be a major component in USAID’s contribution to improving Ethiopia’s ability to withstand major shocks in the pastoral regions, a critical element on the journey to self-reliance. RIPA’s core activities will target 250,000 households (approximately 1.5 million people) in 5 Zones. Specifically, the project will tackle the root causes of vulnerability for lowlands households to withstand and recover from climate and conflict related shocks and stresses. These include weak disaster risk management capacity at different levels, limited livelihood diversification options, poor livestock and crop productivity, weak market linkages, and low levels of nutrition. Implementation focuses on systems change, with a strong learning component to ensure interventions are adapted per the latest data analysis and research. Partnerships with other implementers, donors, the GoE, and the private sector will be essential to reach the scale needed for real systems change.
Position Description:
PCI is seeking a consultant with expertise in mobile-based technologies to build and test forms that support data collection and management efforts of project monitoring and evaluation (M&E), formative research, and participant surveys. The Survey Consultant will be responsible for building, testing, and training RIPA staff on Commcare applications for project data collection, working in close collaboration with technical leads and M&E staff.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
Application/ Tool Building
Testing
Training
Support agile approach to program management
Support CATI/remote data collections, if needed
KEY DELIVERABLES:
Duration:
Department: Collaboration, Learning and Adapting (CLA)
Reports to: Collaboration, Learning and Adaptation (CLA) Team Lead
Direct reports: None
Contract Duration: 6 – 8 weeks
Qualifications and Competencies of the Consultant: