Background
Addis Ababa University in partnership with Emory, Hawassa, and Mekelle Universities and the ministry of health, Oromia, Amhara, SNNP, Sidama and Tigray regional health bureaus, is finalizing preparation to start implementation of the Saving Little Lives (SLL) project in Ethiopia. The SLL project is funded by the Global Financing Facility and managed by UNICEF Ethiopia Office. The Saving Little Lives (SLL) program is outcome and impact-oriented initiative. The primary goal of SLL is to reduce neonatal mortality by 35% at the population level at the scale-up sites using SLL’s synergistic interventions that target the primary drivers of perinatal and neonatal mortality. The SLL interventions will be systematically expanded at the regions’ 290 hospitals (15 specialized, 69 general and 206 primary) and 1,499 health centers in the aforementioned regions. The target facilities are estimated to manage 1.27 million births annually which is 45% of total births expected in the four regions.
Job Summary:
The Program Learning Research Assistant will work closely with the Evaluation Coordinator and will be responsible for systematically collecting, analyzing and reporting high quality program learning data to inform refinement of SLL project implementation in the selected project sites. The Program Learning Research Assistant will conduct interview, extract data from registers and reports, conduct direct observation of care and facilities to gain deeper understanding of the facilitators and barriers of SLL project implementation in the scale up sites. The Program Learning Research Assistant will strictly follow the standard operating procedure (SOP) and protocols laid out by the study investigators to ensure the project activities are implemented meeting high standards and high-quality data are generated.
Specific roles and responsibilities include
Vacancy: Program Learning Research Assistant
Duration of work: 1 year with possible extension
Tentative Start Date: Immediately
Number of posts: 1
REPORTS TO: Evaluation Coordinator
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