CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. CARE’s flagship program on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Emergencies (SRH-E), SAFPAC Initiative, aims to reduce women’s unintended pregnancies and deaths from unsafe abortion in acute emergencies and chronically crisis-affected countries. In line with CARE's commitment to the needs and rights of women and girls, SAFPAC integrates essential sexual and reproductive health services into new and ongoing humanitarian emergencies, emphasizing access to family planning and post-abortion care. (SAFPAC stands for Supporting Access to Family Planning and Post-Abortion Care).
As one of the key programmatic pillars to providing high quality sexual and reproductive health services in challenging settings, and in line with monitoring and evaluation guidance and standards CARE-wide, the CARE SRHR Global Team is working to support enhancing skills throughout the organization in data management analysis and use. Part of that effort includes development of tools that will be easily accessible and user friendly for country office staff in complex settings. In addition, we work to provide guidance on utilization of tools both for high-quality data collection and for utilization of data collected for continuous improvement of CARE’s programming.
The SAFPAC Data Management intern will provide support to overall Monitoring and Evaluation efforts of the program including:
- Supporting the improvement of the SAFPAC project collection and reporting system: the data management intern will manage the monitoring system dashboards and propose an improvement in the collection and reporting system
- Participating in the learning initiatives of the program through a review of the project's secondary data for program improvement.
- The intern will
- 1) Review the complaints reported during the community engagement dialogue sessions including analysis of the frequency and characteristics of client complaints related to provision of family planning and post-abortion care;
- 2) Conduct interviews with CARE staff and community health workers to understand the rationale behind some data trends;
- 3) Formulate recommendations about better ways to improve collection and reporting of complaints as well as to address them;
- 4) Elaborate a 10 page-document as final report; and
- 5) Present the results during a brownbag lunch
Suggested duration (weeks or months) of the internship: 6 months (could be 3 – 6 months. Detailed workplan and work products will be adjusted accordingly)
Suggested start date: May 1, 2019 (Approx.)
Suggested end date: October 31, 2019 (Approx.)
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the significance of community engagement in the SAFPAC program
- Improve analysis skills and utilization of data for program improvement
- Understand the SAFPAC collection and reporting system
Responsibilities:
- Support in the improvement of the SAFPAC collection and reporting systems
- Report of the analysis and recommendations
- Presentation (slides)
- Present the findings of the complaints review to the SRHR team
- Other (charts, tables, graphs, infographics) as mutually agreed
Qualifications:
- Proficient in English (Verbal & Written)
- French not required but desired, French speaking a plus
- Proficient in MS Skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
- Undergraduate degree required, second-year student with coursework on public health and/or statistics and/or mobile/cloud-based/open source data management preferred
- Experience with data collection and management
- Detail-oriented, organized
- Clear, accessible communication style
- Familiarity with global health and development and/or sexual and reproductive health a plus
- Previous experience with electronic databases (DHIS2, Kobo Toolbox) or other mobile data collection platforms a plus