Disability Private Sector Engagement Expert

USAID Learns Contract

Hanoi, Vietnam

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About Social Impact 

Social Impact (SI) is a global development management consulting firm which provides monitoring, evaluation, strategic planning, and capacity building services to advance development effectiveness. In Vietnam, SI is implementing the USAID Learns program to support USAID staff and partners to implement more efficient, effective, and transparent programs. 

Position Background

Disability Project's goal is to further improve the availability, accessibility, quality, and sustainability of services for persons with disabilities (rehabilitation, social services, etc.) and promote persons with disabilities' social participation. Private sector partners are key stakeholders, together with GVN, CSOs/NGOs, and USAID wants to improve the PSE to achieve this goal. 

The United Nation’s World Health Organization (WHO)'s rehabilitation updates showed that the need for rehabilitation is high, however the demand for services is low due to low awareness of the services/needs/demand, limited-service availability, (especially in remote areas and low resource settings), the service price is not affordable. This affects supply too.

Objective

USAID/Vietnam intends to conduct an assessment on Disability Private Sector Landscape Analysis (PSLA). This review will aim to understand the state of private sector engagement in providing services to person with disabilities by answering the following (but not limited to) questions with reference to this discussion note on How to Conduct a PSLA:

• What is the general state of the private sector in Vietnam in engaging in providing services to persons with disabilities? What are the challenges and barriers to their engagement and investments?
• What are the Vietnamese private sector's perspectives on engaging in disabilities-related services?
• Based on what we learn, what are potential strategies to engage the private sector in disabilities-related services?

Position Description

USAID Learns is seeking a Disability Private Sector Engagement Expert to support the PSLA. S/he will support the development/translation of the research tools, conducting interviews/discussions, and support the organization of transcripts/discussion notes. S/he will assist the Team Lead in data analysis, preparing findings for presentation, and writing the final report. The research should be structured in a way to answer the following questions: 

1.     What is the state of the private sector in Vietnam in providing services to persons with disabilities and/or promoting their participation? 

• What do private sector actors see as opportunities and challenges in providing market-based services to persons with disabilities, and/or promoting their participation?
• What are potential strategic ways for USAID to engage and collaborate with the private sector in providing services to persons with disabilities and promote the availability, accessibility, quality, and sustainability of services for persons with disabilities and promoting their participation?

Responsibilities:

Specifically, the Disability Private Sector Engagement Expert will: 

• Assist the?desk review and identify additional information/analyses to nuance inception 
• Contribute to the development of the research design, methodology and data collection instruments, and mitigation strategies to overcome limitations  
• Design a contingency plan to adapt the research considering epidemic control restrictions in Vietnam 
• Conduct and take part in interviews/discussions where feasible 
• Support the production/Learn’s translation process of detailed notes from interviews, focus groups discussions into reliable data sources  
• Monitor the overall data collection effort and adapt the data collection based upon the quality and quantity of data iteratively collected 
• File, index and organize data sources and materials on Social Impact’s server (SharePoint) 
• Support the Team Lead in data analysis and the identification of findings, conclusions, and recommendations, following analysis 
• Support the writing of the report under direction from the Team Lead.
• Actively contribute to the presentation of findings to USAID, key stakeholders, research users, and the wider sector. 

Deliverables[1]

With support from USAID Learns, the consultant will provide coordination support for the Team Lead to deliver the following:

Inception Report: A detailed, full body report following an initial consultation with key stakeholders, featuring key definitions, research design, [2] chosen methodologies, and data collection tools.

Inbrief: A PowerPoint/Google Slides presentation summarizing the Inception Report for USAID/Vietnam and key partners prior to the launch of data collection.

Findings Conclusions and Recommendations (FCR) Matrix: An analysis tool through which data is triangulated and findings, conclusions, and recommendations specific to each research question are produced. Two FCR matrixes are expected, a preliminary document after the first full week of data collection, and a final matrix at the end of the data analysis period.

Validation Event: An event where the team will present the preliminary findings of the research to USAID and key stakeholders, or representatives of key stakeholder groups, who acted as respondents in the research process through a PowerPoint/Google Slides presentation and discussion. This event, supported by USAID/Vietnam Learns in Hanoi, will help validate findings in front of actors and develop/co-develop user-driven recommendations. The research team will consider partners' comments, develop recommendations, and report accordingly.

Utilization Event (tbc): An event where the team will present a refined PowerPoint/Google Slides presentation and instigate discussions for eventual users of the research. With support from USAID/Vietnam Learns in Hanoi, this event is intended to encourage agreement on how to operationalize recommendations, collaborate, and follow up on progress in preparation for activity extension.

Outbrief: The team will present the key findings, conclusions, and recommendations to the wider USAID/Vietnam Mission through a PowerPoint/google slides presentation.

Draft Report: A draft report with fully developed findings, conclusions, and recommendations, no longer than 10 pages excluding annexes, will be submitted to the USAID activity manager and Learns COR (by Learns).

Final Report: The team will submit a final report that incorporates responses to USAID's/partner's comments and suggestions. The report will be submitted electronically in English. The report will be disseminated within USAID and key stakeholders.

Qualifications and skills

The Disability Private Sector Engagement Expert must have/hold: 

• At least 7 years of experience conducting high-quality qualitative research, preferably with PSLA. 
• A postgraduate degree in business development, economics, public health, or a suitably related field
• Knowledge of qualitative program assessment methodology 
• Excellent oral communication and written skills  
• Experience conducting participatory research. 

Preferably, the applicant will have strong experience with PSLA and private sector engagement.

Level of Effort (LOE):          Up to 50 days. 

Expected timeline:              March 2022 – August 2022

The closing date for application: February 28, 2022. Selection and interview will be performed on a rolling basis, and interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.  

To apply, please merge both your CV and a cover letter into one pdf file and submit it through the online portal. 

To learn more about Social Impact, please visit our website: http://www.socialimpact.com

SI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.  

Only selected candidates will be contacted for an interview. Please, no phone calls. 

Organization: USAID Learns - Social Impact
Location: Hanoi
Application deadline: 2022-02-28
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