Consultant for Supporting Acceleration Plan – FHI360 Vacancy Announcement

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Job Description

CONSULTANTS’ SCOPE OF WORK

To support Acceleration Plan USAID Healthy Behaviours Activity

BACKGROUND

The USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity (U-HB) is managed by FHI 360 with its partners, ActionAid Ethiopia; Zeleman Communications, Advertising, and Production; and Fraym. U-HB works to increase the sustained adoption of appropriate health and nutrition behaviors in Ethiopia using evidence-based, theory-informed social and behavior change (SBC) strategies. It does so with the goal of contributing to reductions in unmet need for family planning (FP); reduced malaria-related morbidity and mortality, and its elimination; and improvements in maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) outcomes. It also supports other priority health needs related to nutrition; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), and emerging infectious diseases (EID), like COVID-19; and works to transform social and gender norms that impede healthy behaviors and drive poor health outcomes across health areas.

 PURPOSE

FHI 360 is looking for “Individual Consultants” to support an upcoming accelerated plan in four regions – Benshangul Gumz, Gambella, Oromia and Amhara. The main goal of this plan is to reach households and community groups in the target woredas with messages on family planning, MNCH, malaria and COVID-19. The social mobilization activities will deliver these messages to different audiences. The individual consultants will work closely with the USAID Healthy Behaviours Activity regional technical hub team to carry out various tasks; such as organizing region-level launch and woreda-level plan harmonization workshops, training facilitators and social mobilization facilitators, and monitoring the implementation of the social mobilization activities at household and community levels. This consultancy work will run from 15 May to 31 July, 2023. The consultants will be responsible for planning, leading, and reporting on the activities. The community-level social mobilization activities are expected to start in the fourth week of May 2023.

SCOPE OF WORK

In close coordination with the USAID Healthy Behaviours Activity’s Regional Technical Hub teams, the consultants will be expected to accomplish the below tasks:

Task 1: Support the organization of woreda level social mobilization plan harmonization workshop

• Participate in planning the harmonization workshop with the USAID healthy behavior team.
• Participate in the identification of topics and agenda for the plan harmonization workshop.
• Finalize the workshop agenda and submit it to USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity.
• Assist the USAID healthy behavior team in identifying relevant participants at the woreda level for the plan harmonization workshop.
• Support the identification of required materials for the workshop.
• Actively support the smooth organization of the workshop event.
• Document all workshop-related processes and key outcomes and recommendations.
• Compile plans and submit them to the USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team for decision.
• Submit a standardized report to USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity.
• Ensure the inclusion of participatory activities designed to contribute to the achievement of the workshop objectives.
• Design a social mobilization activity plan and implementation modalities for each woreda based on the findings of the social mobilization harmonization workshop.

Task 2: Facilitate training of community-level social mobilizers 

• Actively participate in three (3) days long training of the consultants that will enable them successfully lead the training of the community-level social mobilizers, which will be organized by the USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team.
• Design training for community-level social mobilizers.
• Participate in the identification of relevant participants for the training.
• Conduct the training of the social mobilizers at assigned woreda towns.
• Support the community-level social mobilizers to develop major social mobilization activities and implementation modalities, and agree on targets.
• Collect the agreed plans and deliverable targets of social mobilizers and submit them to the USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team.
• Document all the workshop processes and outcomes, possibly with supported pictures, audio and visual files.
• Submit a report to USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity.

Task 3: Make a follow-up of the household and community-level social mobilization activities 

• Make daily travel to the kebeles and make on-site visits to social mobilization activities.
• Submit a weekly based report to the USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team on the overall status and activities delivered by the social mobilizers.
• Document success stories as per the standard and submit them to the USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team.

Task 4: Develop the post-consultancy report and submit it to the USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team

• Submit a draft report to the USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team.
• Submit a final report containing all activities of the consultancy work by incorporating inputs from the USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team.

DELIVERABLES/ MILESTONES & DUE DATES:

Task	Activity	Deliverable(s)	Estimated due/ Performance dates
1	Organization of woreda-level social mobilization plan harmonization workshop	·       Planning of the harmonization workshop/identification of agenda, relevant tools/materials, participants and development of session plan/	o/a May 15-18
		·       Workshop event
		·       Submit major plans
		·       Submit standardized report
		·       Design major social mobilization activity plan and implementation modalities to be implemented at woreda-levels and agree with USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team
2	Training of community-level social mobilizers	·       Facilitation training for consultants	o/a May 18-20
		·       Travel to assigned woredas
		·       Design a training for community-level social mobilizers / identification of relevant participants
		·       Woreda-level training for social mobilizers
		·       Submission of community-level social mobilization plan and report to USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team.
3	Field-level follow up of social mobilization activities.	·       Make onsite visit of social mobilization activities by social mobilizers.	May 23 – July 24
		·       Submit a weekly based report to USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team the overall status and activities delivered by the social mobilizers. ·       Document success stories as per the standard and submit to USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team
4	Develop the post-consultancy report and submit to USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity team	·       Draft Report	July 22
		·       Final Report incorporating U-HB comments	July 28

 

Travel expenses will be provided by FHI 360

Period of Performance: o/a May 15 – July 30

Location of work:

Region	Based in [Town]	# of consultants required
Oromia	‒        Woliso town ‒        Finfinee	2 1
Benshangul Gumz	‒        Assosa Town ‒        Beles (Metekel Zone)	3 3
Gambella	‒        Gambella Town	3
Amhara	‒        Bahir Dar ‒        Enjibara	2 1
	TOTAL	15

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