Strategy Evaluation Consultant

Summary

Join VillageReach as an external consultant to conduct an early assessment of its 2030 Strategy, aiming to reduce inequities in access to quality primary healthcare. Document exemplars of VillageReach's work through case studies, focusing on areas like supply chain, digitally-enabled PHC, and sustainable financing. Provide recommendations on collecting new evidence of impact and conduct a landscape assessment of existing evidence on what works in reducing inequity. The consultant will work with VillageReach's Research Evidence and Learning Team Lead and collaborate with internal stakeholders. The consultancy is expected to begin June 2, 2025, and end September 30, 2025.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in public health, social sciences or similar field is required
• At least ten years’ experience in healthcare and/or public health
• Experience with monitoring and evaluation of global health programs, including a familiarity with the types of evidence that these programs generate
• Experience interpreting quantitative and qualitative data to inform recommendations or decision-making
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey highly technical information and complex data in a concise manner to diverse audiences
• Experience using evidence-based approaches to integrate an equity lens into programs

Responsibilities

• Document exemplars of our work around our 2030 Strategy through a series of case studies, leveraging existing evidence and consultations with program teams: We expect to identify at least 2 exemplars per component in the Strategy M&E Framework. Our areas of strength include supply chain, digitally-enabled PHC, data systems, building the health workforce and sustainable financing for innovation. The specific number of exemplars to be documented as case studies will be negotiated at the time of contract
• Provide recommendations on how to collect new evidence of the impact of our work in alignment with the 2030 Strategy: Recommendations are expected to include illustrative methods to collect evidence, leveraging our existing programming as well as new opportunities
• Conduct a landscape assessment of evidence on what works and what doesn’t in reducing inequity to access to PHC: In order to demonstrate how our solutions and programs contribute to a truly responsive PHC system, we will need to deeply understand the evidence generated by like-minded partners and governments. This landscape assessment is expected to include evidence related to our areas of strength as well as complementary areas

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in English and French is required; Portuguese preferred
• Established cultural competency in partnering with racial, cultural and linguistically diverse groups
• Demonstrated understanding of challenges with working in rural, underserved and low-income context; experience living in and/or working in a low-income country a plus
• Ability to work and collaborate remotely with an international workforce across time zones and multiple languages
• Ability to work independently with little direct oversight while still maintaining high quality of work
• Due to the time zone differences between our offices in the US, DRC, Malawi and Mozambique and location of other global staff, the Consultant is expected to be available for meetings starting at 6am if based in the US. Staff located in Europe and Africa are expected to be available for meetings up to 6pm

Benefits

Please submit your hourly rate with your application