Team Leader - PEA, Nigeria Health Population and Nutrition at Navanti

Position Description:

• Navanti is seeking an International Team Leader who will be responsible for the overall coordination and management of the assessment team’s effort and ensuring a rigorous and high-quality political economy analysis.
• Under the guidance of the MEL Support Activity, the Team Leader is expected to work closely with the USAID/Nigeria team and USAID/Washington Health Systems Advisor and Health Governance Lead.
• The team leader will be supported by other health practitioners and research assistants.
• The team leader will consult with and facilitate input from all team members throughout the duration of the evaluation.

Responsibilities:

The Team Leader will:

• Participate in a PEA kick-off session with USAID/Nigeria.
• Conduct an initial desk study: gather relevant secondary materials to identify key actors and stakeholders, relevant local and oversight institutions, coordination mechanisms and support structures.
• Lead the design and development of workplan including protocols for data collection in selected states and FCT.
• Participate in field work including conducting several KIIs and FGDs with stakeholders from health institutions, states and national health actors, State and federal legislators, civil society organizations (CSOs), implementing partners and others.
• Present preliminary findings on data collected from stakeholders’ engagement and desk review.
• Provide leadership for the team and coordinate activities as necessary.
• Coordinate team's ongoing analysis of qualitative and quantitative data.
• Lead the preparation and presentation of the In-brief and Out-brief to USAID/Nigeria and other stakeholders as requested.
• Write the draft assessment report with support from the team members, taking into consideration feedback from the Out-brief presentation.
• Respond to USAID comments on the draft report, incorporate USAID/Nigeria staff comments into the final version of the report and finalize the report.
• Present political economy analysis results to diverse audiences according to USAID standard reporting
• Work collaboratively with team members throughout design, implementation, analysis, and report writing to complement each other's areas of expertise.

Qualifications:

The candidate is expected to have the following qualifications:

• Possess an advanced university degree in public health, health policy and financing, health systems strengthening public administration, finance, economics, or related field with demonstrated competence in political-economic analysis or similar assessment frameworks.
• Must have been a team leader for a large-scale assessment or an evaluation.
• A minimum of 15 years of experience in conducting assessments, evaluation and must have led a minimum of two PEAs or similar studies and participated in a minimum of three health-focused PEAs.
• The consultants must have a strong understanding of contextual knowledge of the Nigeria political, economic and health spheres.
• Demonstrated experience in both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis with good interview techniques.
• Proven experience of working in the health sector and engagements with state and federal government authorities, civil society organizations in the health sector
• Experience facilitating and providing leadership in collaborative and participatory evaluations with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience working in the health sector with international donor organizations particularly USAID.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to produce preliminary and final reports on time.