Research & Impact Officer - Totohealth Tanzania Ltd.

  

Role: Research & Impact Officer

Position Reports To: Country Manager

Location: Moshi, Tanzania

Application Deadline: 12 Oct 2016

Full time employment

 Background of Totohealth Tanzania Ltd.

Totohealth is a social enterprise based in Moshi town, Kilimanjaro Region. Our vision is a world where

no woman dies giving life and a world where every child has a fair and equal start to life. Totohealth’s

mission is to make motherhood* a safe and joyful experience. We offer a set of services available over

the span of pregnancy, delivery and up to 5 years of a child’s life.

Our package of solutions include

(1)information, education and communication (IEC) through a interactive text messaging platform,

 (2) lifesaving products including a comprehensive Clean Delivery Pack (CDP) to be used at delivery, and

 (3)Newborn Survival Pack (NSP) with applicable supplies for the mother and for newborn survival for first month of life.

All these services are implemented in partnership with local District Government

Departments, organisations & NGOs with mothers as clients. Our goals is to better provide IEC to parents and caregivers and get mothers to deliver with the help of a skilled birth attendant (at a health facility), and giving them access to products they need at health-facility and household level.

Position description

The Research and Impact Officer (R&I) will support Totohealth in all Research activities necessary to inform product development & research, program monitoring and evaluation. The responsibilities will range from field coordination and planning, research protocol development, research design, tools development, data collection, data management, data cleaning, analysis and report writing.

Research that will be conducted will include formative research to inform program and product design, fieldtesting SMS disability content, development & monitoring of SMS helpdesk, piloting of CDPs and NSPs and monitoring & evaluation (M&E) health outcomes.

Responsibilities

● Secure consent from District and Regional health authorities to do field testing and piloting

● Coordinate and oversee all research activities in the field ensuring ethical code of conduct

● Conduct market research (including product prototyping and customer feedback) including client

satisfaction surveys, desk reviews and other reviews on a needs basis

● Present finding to Totohealth management team, providing insight in product development

● Develop research protocol, data collection tools & design data management and reporting systems

● Train field researchers on tools and data collection protocol for Totohealth

● Supervise field research to conduct data collection, data cleaning, data management and data entry

● Carry out periodic monitoring and evaluation, reporting and impact analysis

● Coordinate and map out monitoring and evaluation activities

● Ensure accurate and timely reporting for Totohealth on a monthly basis

● Conducting internal data quality checks

Characteristics:

● Independent, professional, adaptive, solution-oriented, communicative, transparent, strong followup,

results driven, pays attention to detail

● Comfortable working in a fast-moving, start up environment

● Empathy and high commitment to Totohealth’s mission and organizational values

Qualifications:

● University degree in a social science

Experience and skills

● At least 2 years of field research experience

● Experience in qualitative and quantitative methodologies and data analysis

● Experience on Monitoring & Evaluation

● Experience on research design

● Experience with working with Regional and District Authorities

● Excellent interpersonal skills, including team work and individual excellence

● Excellent time management skills

● Excellent written, oral and presentation skills in both English and Swahili

● Strong computer literacy and presentation skills with excellent command of Excel

How to apply

1. Send (a) cover letter and (b) your CV/resume to giulia@totohealth.org, cc tayeb@totohealth.org

2. Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview; to be held in English.

3. Successful candidates will undergo a three month probation period before formally being offered

the position.

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Totohealth offers a comprehensive employee benefits package including:

paid vacation, holidays and sick leave. Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

Totohealth Tanzania Ltd. www.totohealth.org

Kilihub, Plot 181-182, Majengo – Rose Garden, Moshi, Kilimanjaro