Consultant - Coordinate a Household Health Expenditure Survey - Abia, Ebonyi,Osun at Palladium Group

Background
Health Policy Plus (HP+) is a USAID-funded five-year project awarded on August 28, 2015. HP+ has a mandate across global, country, and subnational levels to strengthen and advance health policy priorities in family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH), HIV, and maternal health. It aims to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy development and implementation, with an emphasis on voluntary, rights-based health programs, and by strengthening in-country partners' capacity to navigate complex environments for effective policy design, implementation, and financing aligned to their priorities.

In Nigeria, HP+ is working with the Federal Ministry of Health and the State Ministries of Health of Abia, Ebonyi and Osun states to conduct a Household Health Expenditure Survey (HHES) for the above-mentioned states. The survey will provide estimates of household expenditures on health (types of goods and services; providers; household income level) that will be critical to inform policy decisions to improve access to quality health services, particularly to support evidence-based heath financing and social protection reforms being undertaken by the states.

Responsibilities

Study Scope
The objectives of the Household Health Expenditure Study are to:

• To determine the incidence and nature of expenditure on health incurred by households with a view to estimating the amounts of "out of pocket" (OOP) payments for health.
• To determine the amount households are willing to pay for health insurance premiums.

The following are supporting objectives:

• To understand the patterns of healthcare utilization of households in the three focus states.
• To determine the incidence of catastrophic health spending amongst households.
• To determine the knowledge and attitude of households towards health insurance.
• Estimate the Willingness to Pay for health insurance across different socioeconomic groups.
• To achieve the study objectives outlined above, Palladium, through the HP+ Project, is seeking a Survey Manager to support the implementation and management of the HHES.
• The successful candidate will be engaged to complete the components of the HHES as described above and will work collaboratively with HP+, the Federal Ministry of Health and the State Ministries of Health involved in the study to achieve the study objectives

The Specific Responsibilities of the selected Survey Manager will be to:

• Support the identification and selection of a team of qualified data collectors and supervisors. Data collectors should have experience in conducting household surveys, be fluent in English, local languages and be familiar with the use of mobile devices for data collection
• Manage the team of recruited data collectors and supervisors in conducting the survey
• Organize and facilitate a training workshop for data collectors and supervisors on survey implementation, including the survey protocol and tools to be used
• Pretest the questionnaires and revise accordingly (including local language adjustments) as part of the field staff training
• Organize all aspects of field work logistics and supervise survey data collection for the duration of the survey including but not limited to community entry, mapping/listing of households, data collection, data quality assurance and upload of completed instruments
• Clean data based on skip patterns and filters in the survey questionnaire and provide general management of the data entry component of the survey.
• Respond to questions and/or requests for more information by HP+ as needed during this survey and inform any changes in the timeline for delivery of products associated with this survey.
• Analyse the collected and cleaned data based on a documented Analysis Plan agreed with HP+ and relevant stakeholders at the states
• Position is based in Abuja, but consultant should be prepared to travel to Abia, Osun, and Ebonyi states

Deliverables:

• An inception report which responds to the scope of work by adding any further detail or clarification regarding the study approach, method, or implementation arrangements
• Field work implementation plan (to be submitted before field work begins.). This field work plan should be presented to HP+ and the state Ministries of Health, and revised as necessary prior to commencing field work
• Cleaned data files (including Questionnaires) in an agreed format with data correctly organized, variables named and labeled.
• Overall HHES report that outlines the methodology and aggregated results of the survey

Requirements
Qualifications Required and Experience:

• A minimum of a Master's degree in Public Health, Statistics or other related discipline from a recognized institution
• Experience in quantitative and/or qualitative methodologies and research techniques
• Over 5 years' experience in conducting and/or managing field implementation of household surveys across multiple states in Nigeria
• Experience in conducting surveys using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) methods
• Demonstratable understanding of Nigeria's health financing environment and reforms
• Experience and proficiency in using statistical techniques and software such as Stata, SPSS etc.
• Excellent interpersonal, team working and communication skills
• Strong report-writing skills