UNDP Jobs - 82516- National Consultancy Service for Evaluation of HIV

National Consultancy Service for Evaluation of HIV Prevention, Caring

Location :

Tehran, IRAN

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

27-Dec-18 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

Six months

Languages Required :

Expected Duration of Assignment :

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

To apply for this jobs please refer to http://www.ir.undp.org/content/iran/en/home/procurement.html under the subject: "Individual Consultancy for Evaluation of HIV Prevention, Caring and Treatment Services in Prisons"

Please note that all interested applicants are requested to send their proposal to UNDP office: No. 8, Shahrzad Blvd. Darrous, Tehran, 1948773911, Iran

The project titled "Enhancement of National HIV Response with Focus on Target Beneficiary Groups in line with fourth National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2015-2019” is funded by the Global Fund’s New Funding Model (NFM) program to support Iran’s response in controlling the growth of HIV/AIDS prevalence and incidence. The NFM project continued through allocating the Global Fund’s New Allocation to be utilized from 1st April 2018 to 31st March 2021 in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The main goals of the project are: 1) By the end of 2019, maintain the HIV prevalence rate at less than 13% among PWIDs; 2) By the end of 2019 maintain the HIV prevalence rate among men and women with the most high-risk sexual behaviors at less than 5%; 3) By the end of 2019 decrease AIDS mortality rate in identified HIV positive cases by 20% compared to the baseline of the 4th NSP.

The United Nation Development Program (UNDP) Iran country office as the Principal Recipient (PR) works with the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) and three Sub-Recipients (SRs) in implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the project. The SRs are Center for Disease Control of Ministry of Health (CDC), State Welfare Organization (SWO) and Iranian Prisons Organization (PO).

Although most of the prisoners living with HIV in prison contact their infection outside the institutions before imprisonment, implementing HIV interventions including prevention, care and treatment services in prisons has been always comprehensively included in the National Strategic Plans (NSP) to control HIV/AIDS epidemic in I.R. Iran.

Prisons Organization as one of the main stakeholders of the 4th NSP aims to improve the effectiveness of HIV interventions, coverage and quality of services in its settings. Evaluation as one of the essential pillars of the programme management can be applied to assess the design, implementation, improvement and outcome of a programme/project. This evaluation study which is being conducted in the time that the 5th NSP is going to be developed will provide information to identify weakness and challenges, strengths and achievements of the HIV project in prisons. Moreover, the result of this project evaluation can be used to manage challenges to broadly expand and success stories to collect and disseminate in other prisons.

Duties and Responsibilities

Please note that all interested applicants are requested to send their proposal to UNDP office: No. 8, Shahrzad Blvd. Darrous, Tehran, 1948773911, Iran

The consultant is responsible to provide the following services:

Developing the protocol of the study (evaluation plan) based on the existing checklists and standards of process evaluation in the field of diagnosis, care and treatment. These standards have been already developed and included in the Management Information System (MIS) of CDC and can be used for studying the process with prisoners (like other groups);
Data collection based on the proposed methodology;
Reporting findings and results of the study and recommendations.

Competencies

Please note that all interested applicants are requested to send their proposal to UNDP office: No. 8, Shahrzad Blvd. Darrous, Tehran, 1948773911, Iran

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Required Skills and Experience

Please note that all interested applicants are requested to send their proposal to UNDP office: No. 8, Shahrzad Blvd. Darrous, Tehran, 1948773911, Iran

Academic Background:

The Consultant should hold a master level academic degree in the area of health, e.g. medicine, public health, epidemiology, planning and management of health and social sciences or alike.

Experience:

At least 3 years of experience in conducting research, evaluation/assessment, surveys, on health and social sciences;
Experience in conducting research in the field of HIV prevention, treatment and care is a plus;
Experience of working in the field of prisons is a plus.