HCD Advisor - Consultant at John Snow Incorporated (JSI)

John Snow Incorporated (JSI) - We are public health care and health systems consultants and researchers driven by a passion to improve health services and health outcomes for all.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: HCD Advisor - Consultant

Location: Nigeria
Duration: July 2024 - February 2025

Background

• The HPV Vaccine Acceleration Program Partners Initiative (HAPPI) Consortium, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a 3-year project designed to accelerate HPV vaccination in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Vaccination against HPV is recommended for adolescent young women prior to sexual debut to reduce cervical cancer related mortality and morbidity.
• It is critical to understand the barriers to accessing and accepting HPV vaccination among adolescent girls and their caregivers so that implementers can develop more effective interventions that address these barriers and increase to uptake in population groups less likely to receive the HPV vaccine.
• This activity will examine barriers and potential solutions to those gender-related HPV vaccination barriers at the individual, household, community, and health systems levels in Indonesia and Nigeria. The HCD approach will be used to put the adolescents and stakeholders at the center of the problem-solving by engaging them in a collaborative process to understand, think about, create, test, and implement solutions together for impactful and sustainable positive change. 

Objectives

• The primary objective is to better understand the gender-related related barriers to HPV immunization delivery and uptake and identify potential solutions to those barriers among adolescent young women, caregivers, and vaccine program stakeholders. This study will be conducted in Nigeria and Indonesia.

Activities
Two consultants will complete the following activities:

• Prepare for, convene and facilitate four workshops with adolescent girls (ages 10-14), and young women (ages 15-18) (AGYW collectively) and their caregivers to explore gender-related barriers confronted throughout the process of seeking and receiving an HPV vaccination.
• Use persona and journey mapping tools with adolescent girls and their caregivers during the workshop to collect data on enablers and barriers to HPV vaccination.
• Facilitate small group ideation exercises to propose, prototype, and test solutions to overcome barriers.
• Prepare for, convene, and facilitate a dissemination and refinement workshop with immunization stakeholders (e.g., district / regional Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) officers, Ministry of Health (MoH) personnel, Ministry of Education personnel, and Ministry of Gender personnel) to review low-fidelity intervention prototypes generated during co-design sessions with adolescent girls and young women.
• Lead qualitative analysis of data from workshops.
• Manage the development of learning and research products of findings.

Deliverables and Schedule
The Contractor is responsible for the timely submission of the following deliverables, as part of the SOW:

• Due dates are subject to change subject to approval from the Activity Manager named in this scope
• The total LOE is approximately equivalent to 40 days.
• All required deliverables and reports shall be submitted to the JSI Activity Manager listed on Page 1.

Consultant Qualifications
General HCD mindsets and skills:

• Values the quality of stakeholder experiences throughout the design and engagement process, consistently keeping in mind participant care and power dynamics, and creating communications and interactions that respect different contexts, strengths, and capabilities
• Curious and empathetic, listens to understand (vs test), and able to identify unarticulated needs, beliefs, and areas of opportunity (vs specific solutions)
• Balances confidence, humility, and cross-cultural/-structural awareness in order to respectfully explore, question, and articulate assumptions, perspectives, reasoning, norms, biases, and blind spots - in self/individuals, organizations, systems
• Past experience applying HCD process and/or tools preferred.

Skills that are specific to this engagement:

• Experience engaging and working with subject matter / technical experts to quickly grasp a field of practice and understand where HCD approaches can contribute. Preferred familiarity with gender equitable and/or transformative research methods, concepts, and approaches
• Experience designing and implementing outreach and engagement strategies
• Experience facilitating workshops, preference for facilitation experience with young adolescents
• Excellent plain language writing and editing skills
• Familiarity with adult learning theories and their application into learning design and workshops
• Familiarity with qualitative research methods.

Application Closing Date
13th July, 2024.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resumes and Cover Letter in English with a list of at least three (3) Referees with their contact details to: [email protected] using “HCD Advisor Consultant” as the subject of the email.

Note

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• JSI is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer committed to workplace diversity.
• We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, creed, religion, gender, disability, marital status, gender identity, sexual orientation, sexual preference, genetic information, political affiliation, or protected veteran status in any employment decisions.
• Women are encouraged to apply.
• Application will be considered on rolling basis.

Safeguarding Policy:

• JSI has a zero-tolerance policy for any form of abuse, exploitation or violence. We take every measure to prevent such incidents and to ensure compliance to our donors. We will expect all our employees/Consultants/Interns/Volunteers to commit to protecting children, young people and vulnerable adults from harm and abide by our safeguarding policy.