DMPA-SC Access Collaborative

• Subcutaneous DMPA Access Collaborative (the Access Collaborative) is a six-year project led by PATH. JSI is a sub-grantee to PATH. Subcutaneous depo medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC) is an innovative subcutaneous injectable contraceptive that is currently being introduced in many countries, with a focus on increasing women’s access to safe, effective contraception.
• The Access Collaborative works with country stakeholders and facilitates coordination of DMPA-SC introduction and scale-up planning in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria within the context of strengthening the existing health system.

Background

• Integrated Supportive Supervision (ISS) is a process which encourages the delivery of quality service for optimal outcomes through better communication, team spirit to resolve identified problems, and mentoring to motivate health workers to supervise, monitor and improve their individual and collective performance.
• It improves the knowledge and skills of peripheral health workers in order to ensure the delivery of quality health services through direct contact with health workers for an on-site observation of health delivery processes, reviewing of registers and other documents, immediate orientation of health workers on observed gaps in knowledge and or skills and the provision of documented feedback on issues, challenges and jointly agreed action points.
• ISS involves inspecting, controlling and giving support to health workers, to improve their skills and performance, and ultimately, health service delivery.
• Supportive supervision plays a critical role to ensure high-performing health workers have the appropriate knowledge, skills, and motivation to deliver quality family planning (FP) services and informed choice counseling.
• In Nigeria, there has poor coordination of the various supportive supervisions happening in various states in the country and with partner support.
• This may have led to a huge multiplicity of efforts and a waste of limited resources by health partners, states ministry of health (MOH) and the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH). To curb this, the Federal Ministry of Health collaborated with health partners to develop comprehensive national ISS tools/checklist to be used at the primary, secondary and tertiary health levels.
• The last version of these tool was updated over 5 years ago and may not include information on new and emerging diseases, new contraceptive methods or other tracer products.
• The FMOH is currently leading the revision of the ISS tools and checklist to resolve these challenges.

Context:

• To ensure an effective supportive supervision at all levels that enables health workers to have appropriate knowledge, skills, and motivation to deliver quality MNCH services, the Nigerian government is revising the ISS tools/checklists.
• The Federal Ministry of Health recognizes the importance of converting the offline ISS tools and checklists to anonline data collection (ODK) format.

Objectives

• The Access Collaborative project is seeking an experienced electronic data collection template developer to develop an electronic version of the national ISS tools/checklist for family planning services. The developer will work under the guidance of the ISS consultant and the JSI Nigeria team to translate the paper-based tools to an electronic version which can be used for a field test

Key Activities:

• To develop electronic data collection templates for national ISS tools

Deliverables
The key deliverables for the developer will be:

• To set up the data management hub on an ODK platform and provide access information to FMOH and JSI
• To develop the electronic version of the ISS tools and checklist and provide the functional links for access.
• To develop the electronic version of the reliability assessment questionnaires for the ISS tools and Checklists.
• To provide technical support as necessary in the course of field testing and data analysis.
• To carry out any other data electronic data management related tasks assigned by the JSI and/or the consultant for the ISS revision.

Required Skills and Experience

• Substantial experience in the development of digital data collection and analysis tools (including platform administration, questionnaire creation, field data collection, data analysis), through KoBo Toolbox.
• Advanced skills in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial analysis, and experience in the creation of both static maps and interactive mapping applications.
• Knowledge of M&E systems, especially as they apply to fragile contexts, demonstrated through field experience.
• Excellent communication skills, with an ability to adapt to an audience that is operational, but not necessarily knowledgeable of ICT issues.
• Fluent English language skills, enabling the consultant to conduct interactive technical trainings in English, and to produce high-quality written outputs.
• Excellent workflow management skills and a proactive attitude.
• Strong communication/interpersonal skills.
• Proven analytical background.
• Advanced skills in MS office applications, in particular Excel and PowerPoint.