Summary
Date Posted: Monday, April 03 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Field Data Collection Consultancy

Background To Strongminds
StrongMinds is a social enterprise founded in early 2013 that provides life-changing mental health services to impoverished African women. Since many African women cannot even begin to tackle issues like poverty and economic development until they overcome depression, StrongMinds has initially focused on treating women who suffer from this pervasive and debilitating mental illness. By adapting a proven therapeutic model, StrongMinds is the only organization scaling a cost-effective solution to the depression epidemic in Africa. We are guided by an ambitious and unique goal of treating three hundred thousand depressed African women between 2022 and 2024 - enabling these women and their families to lead more healthy, productive and satisfying lives.
SM MISSION is to improve the mental health of women in Africa.
SM GOAL is to treat and improve the lives of three hundred thousand African women with depression by 2025.
SM VISION is for every African woman suffering from depression to have access to mental health treatment, which enables her and her family to lead healthy, productive, and satisfying lives.

STRONGMINDS GROUP INTERPERSONAL THERAPY
StrongMinds’ Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT-G) therapeutic model provides free, group talk therapy (both in-person and teletherapy) facilitated by community-based lay counsellors over 6, 8, and 10 weeks to treat depression and improve the well-being of underserved women and adolescents living with depression in Uganda and Zambia. Through a combination of direct implementation and replication
through government and mission-aligned NGO partners, StrongMinds leverages existing health and education systems and NGO infrastructure to reach new markets and create sustainable access to mental health treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

OBJECTIVES OF THE CONSULTANCY
The purpose of the consultancy is to collect post treatment data for provided sample sets of former clients for validation of termination score results, for two countries Zambia and Uganda

SCOPE OF THE CONSULTANCY
StrongMinds seeks to contract the services of a consultant(s) to collect post treatment PHQ9 and SIT data for its country programs in Uganda and Zambia for the year ended December 2022, and going forward from 2023. For the purposes of this ToR, this will specifically be 6 (six) months post treatment data for 2022 (PHQ9 and SIT) and 2 (two) weeks post treatment (PHQ9 only), and 6 (six) months post treatment data (PHQ9 and SIT) for 2023. StrongMinds is open to receiving applications for an organization that can undertake the consulting activity for either one or both countries. Since this is anticipated to be a recurring annual activity for the foreseeable future, the contract of the successful applicant may be renewed in writing, and at the agreement of both parties as and when the need may arise.

CONSULTANT QUALIFICATIONS
The successful consultant(s) must have the following qualifications:
• At least a Master's degree in Social Sciences, Statistics. Public Health, Economics. Monitoring and Evaluation or any other related subject from a recognized university.
• At least 5 years' demonstrated experience in the evaluation of health and/ or development projects in Uganda and/ or Zambia.
• Expertise in mixed-method research and evaluation methods, and ability to conduct high quality research, meet deadlines and respond to requests and feedback in a timely manner.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills to clearly synthesize and present findings, draw practical conclusions, make recommendations and prepare high quality reports.
• Experience in working with datasets to conduct data analysis across multiple variables of interest.
• Familiarity with, and ability to comply with international quality and accountability standards as applied in development cooperation.
• Understanding the mental health care system in Uganda/ Zambia based on the principles of the mental health gap action program (mhGap) with specific bias to treatment of depression.
• Demonstrated proficiency in written and spoken communications skills in the English language. Fluency in local languages is a plus.
• Capacity to work both independently and as a team.

TIMELINE (IN CONSECUTIVE DAYS)
Total: 20 days

PAYMENT AND TERMS OF PAYMENT
Stage Proportion of payment
At contract signing 100 % of operational/ logistical costs and 20% of technical fees
At submission of draft datasets 40%
At submission of final datasets 40%

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure
Interested consultants/ firms should submit technical and financial proposals to costella.tindyebwa@strongminds.org  and copy to infoglobal@strongminds.org  by 17:00 hours on Monday 3rd April 2023 Applicants should write their subject line in the following order: SM/Client Post Treatment Data Collection Consultancy bid/2023/Your name or consultancy firm.

Please note: The request for applications accepts soft copy applications only.
The application submission should include:
• Legal status and clean tax record
• The consultant's understanding of the Terms of Reference
• A work plan with clearly itemized timelines
• Organizational capacity statement, experience and activities related to Development Evaluations
• Data quality assurance plan based on the quality protocols appended to this ToR
• Curriculum Vitae(s) for the consultant team
• Three professional recommendations on organization headed paper referencing examples of evaluation reports conducted in the last 3 years.
• An itemized budget in local country currency specifying technical fees and operational/ logistical costs for each of the listed data collection activities.
• Proof of a clean record of safeguarding and child protection in current and past assignments. The successful consultant/ firm will be inducted on, and required to sign the StrongMinds safeguarding policy as may apply.

Full application guidelines can be found at:
HYPERLINK: http://www.strongminds.org  www.strongminds.org  or call+256 701 669930

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