• Become familiar with the program documents and goals.
• Support with the preparation phase of data collection – sampling, deciding on which villages to sample, relaying the sample strategy to the research team and troubleshooting.
• Support in the recruitment of the research team
• Reviewed and revised survey and KIIs
• Take part in pre-training with the consultant.
• Train team leaders, enumerators, qualitative specialists, and translator in the tools
• Oversee high quality data collection.
• Conduct spot checks on data collected by visiting households where surveys have been conducted.
• Ensure high data quality by answering the research teams’ questions, setting up a Q&A WhatsApp group, back translating a percentage of translation to check for accuracy.
• Liaise with government officials as needed.
• Plan logistics including cars, vehicles.
• Ensure phones / tablets are available and changed for the survey.
• Review the early analysis and create training slides to share key data with the team (team leaders, enumerators, qualitative specialist)
• Validate the early findings with the research teams – research findings.
• Support the research team to validate the early findings with the community – research findings.
• Feedback on research findings validation with the consultant
• Validate the models with the research team – solutions.
• Support the models with the community – solutions.
• Feedback on models with the consultant
• Support with the draft and finalization of the presentations and reports and provide practical solutions and recommendations.

Eligibility Criteria

• Graduate level degree (MA, MPH) in International Health and/or a Development related qualification.
• At least 5 years’ demonstrable experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research in public health, health, and development in general.
• Excellent judgment, analytical, writing and reporting skills, with a focus on accessible, actionable, practitioner-focused reporting.
• Skills (Experience) in advocacy, communication, and interaction with governmental and nongovernmental collaborators.
• Solid understanding of Microsoft packages (MS Word, MS Excel, and Power Point).
• Familiarity with humanitarian and conflict-affected settings and knowledge of the context of South Sudan, especially REACH project locations is an added advantage.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
• Ability and willingness to travel to implementation sites in South Sudan (pending approval from IRC safety and security team, based on security situation).