Consultant - State Coordinator at Jhpiego - John Hopkins University

Reports to: Project Director
Duration: 30 working days (Between October 2020-January 2021)
Type: Consultancy
Career Category: Program / Project Management
Theme: Gender

Position Overview

• The State Coordinator will serve as liaison contacts between Jhpiego study team and IUFMP team in Ibadan to oversee all activities pertaining to the GBV mapping exercise.
• Also, the Coordinator will provide key support for the day to day management of all data collectors in the State during the period of assignment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead advocacy planning and visits to stakeholders within Oyo State,
• Organize required logistics for sensitization meeting
• Organize required logistics for field data collection,
• Oversee activities of data collectors during data collection, support adherence to standard operating procedures during data collection, verification and quality improvement.
• Provide supportive supervision during data collection,
• Participate in data analysis and report writing workshops.
• Provide on-going updates and reports to the Project Director on status of data collection, successes and challenges, and recommendations for overcoming them.
• Organize required logistics for stakeholders’ validation meeting
• Any other duty in relation to the assignment as assigned.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Minimum of BSc in Social Sciences or its equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in managing research activities involving qualitative/quantitative data collection.
• Strong leadership, management and administrative skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and communication skills, initiative, patience and problem-solving abilities, diplomacy and good judgment.
• Good time management skills and ability to work under pressure with little or no supervision.
• Excellent report writing skills in English.
• Familiarity with gender and gender-based violence programming is desirable and will be an added advantage
• Must have good working knowledge of the State and LGAs.