Data Collectors/Supervisors- Lead Mothers Quantitative Study at Malaria Consortium

Position A: Data Collectors (20)             

Experience: One - Two Years’ Experience

Position B: Supervisor (2)            

Experience: One - Two Years’ Experience

Location: Local Government Areas in Kano State

Duration: December, 2021

Organisational background

Established in 2003, Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organization specializing in the comprehensive prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases, among vulnerable and under privileged populations. We increasingly find our work on malaria can be effectively integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact and therefore expanded our remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions. We work in Africa and Asia with communities, governments, academic institutions, and local and international organizations, to ensure effective delivery of services, which are supported by strong evidence.

Purpose/Scope of Assignment:

 The purpose of this terms of reference (ToR) is to engage 20 quantitative data collectors and two supervisors who will support the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) research team for quantitative data collection for the LM study. There will be trainings on the study design, methodology and data collection tools as well as research ethics. RAs will also be trained on Malaria Consortium COVID-19 safety measures during research conduct.

Data collectors and their supervisors will work with the SMC research team to conduct quantitative data collection for an estimated period of 5days each for ‘before’ and ‘after’ surveys to address objective 5 of the LM study.

Key responsibilities

Supervisors (2):

These study personnel will be primarily responsible for training and supervision of the data collectors. The training will focus on overview of SMC, data collection protocol/methodology, data collection instrument, art of data collection, inter-personal communication, supervision skills, facilitation skills, the use of electronic platform and research ethics.

Specific tasks:

The supervisors will be required to:

• Attend and participate in a 2-day training of data collectors using adult learning approaches of facilitations (discussions, role plays, demonstrations, and simulations).
• Provide supportive supervision for data collectors using appropriate supervision checklist.
• Oversee data collection processes, including logistics, community entry and mobilization.
• Write a report on the data collection process, outlining the best practices, the lessons learnt, challenges, achievements, and recommendations. Each supervisor will write reports for their supervision areas as assigned.

Deliverables for supervisors

• Each supervisor will be assigned 5 teams of quantitative data collectors (10 data collectors) to supervise during the data collection process. Each supervisor will provide
• Supervision schedules developed and submitted.
• Process report for the data collection process for the teams assigned/supervised.

Qualifications and experience:

• Must have a minimum of Bachelors’ Degree in Demography, Statistics, Public Health or other related disciplines with at least 5 years post-qualification experience
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in public health research and surveys.
• Ability to demonstrate good facilitation skills
• Demonstrable report writing skills
• Availability for the whole of the period of the survey
• Must not be a staff of Government at any level and in any Ministry.

Data collectors (20):

Twenty data collectors (10 teams consisting of two persons per team) will be required to attend trainings for quantitative data collection and subsequently collect quantitative data during ‘before’ and ‘after’ surveys to address objective 5 of the LM study. Preferably data collectors who have previous experience conducting quantitative data collection will be engaged, trained and used for the data collection process.

Specific tasks:

• Attend training on data collection and survey methods conducted by supervisors and the SMC research team.
• Conduct interviews in selected households using SurveyCTO
• Upload data on the SurveyCTO platform to server.

Deliverables:

Dataset of completed interviews submitted
Qualifications and experience:

• A minimum of degree (BSc/HND) in social sciences and health related discipline
• Experience in conducting public health research, particularly data collection
• Experience in the use of modern technology in research – use of phone for data collection
• Ability to speak local language (Hausa)
• Familiarity with and respect for the tradition and culture of the locality
• Familiarity with terrain of the locality
• Should be female
• Ability to give attention to details
• Must not be a staff of Government at any level and in any Ministry.
• Must not be part of SMC personnel in whatever capacity (National, State, LGA, HFW, CHW, TA or LM)

Timeline for activities: December, 2021

Total TA Days

Supervisors- 14-days

Data Collectors-10-days