Consultant for Operational Research at Health Poverty Action (HPA)

The consultant will identify policy gaps and help to build up an advocacy action plan that will be shared with the Mandera County Government, the donor community and partners, which is aimed to promote improvement and sustainability of government-led health services for pastoralists in Kenya. Information and learning will be disseminated and discussed collaboratively between stakeholders and the project team.

The consultant/s should have the following, qualification, skills, and experience:

• A degree in public health or development studies
• 5 years’ experience of programme and project planning, monitoring and evaluation.
• High level experience of project Implementation M&E in fragile states and difficult environment.
• Some experience/ knowledge of health challenges in a conflict setting.
• Knowledge of the basics of primary health care concept;
• Extensive experience and skills of facilitating participatory and qualitative/quantitative project evaluation.
• Research/Survey report packaging consistent with donor and HPA standards
• Previous experience in similar work in Mandera, Kenya would be an advantageous