Personal Services Contractor (PSC) for Rapid Appraisal for Minimum Package of Prevention Intervention (MPPI)
Request for Expression of Interest
Communication for Change (C-Change) is USAID’s project for improving the -effectiveness and sustainability of communication programs across multiple sectors: population, health, environment and civil society. The program is implemented by FHI Development 360 LLC (FHI 360). C-Change is supporting the Government of Nigeria (GoN) to carry out a rapid appraisal of the Minimum Prevention Package of Intervention (MPPI). The purpose of this solicitation is to contract the services of a personal services contractor (PSC) with requisite technical experience in HIV prevention to work with the designated NACA prevention technical team to conduct a rapid appraisal of the implementation of MPPI in Nigeria, The preferred candidate shall be responsible for putting together a team of qualified personnel for the purpose of this assignment and should have the necessary skills, education and experience to conduct the following tasks.
To ascertain how the MPPI is being implemented across the country
To identify the intervention mixes that are being used for each target population/group
To determine the rationale for the choices of intervention mixes for each target population
To ascertain the challenges to implementation of MPPI.
To ascertain the nature of policy support-environment and the extent to which it facilitates the implementation of the MPPI.
Person Specification for PSC:
- At least ten years1 experience in HIV/AIDS project/program- development and management;
- At least five years’- experience in HIV prevention programming
- Relevant experience in Public Health research including data management
- Experience in developing and applying HIV prevention program success measures or indicators.
- Evidence of similar work done
- At least a Master’s Degree or advanced degree in Social Sciences, Public Health, Health Economics or Epidemiology.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified personal services contractors (PSCs) should send an expression of interest e-mail to solujimi@fhi360.org on or before 5.00PM on Thursday August 9, 2012. The full request for proposal (RFP) will be sent BY e-mail to all interested candidates by Friday August 10th 2012.
