Consultancy with Cordaid Zimbabwe
Individual Consultancy Services for the Results Based Programme: Cordaid Zimbabwe
Deadline: 20 July 2012
The Cordaid Zimbabwe Office is seeking qualified individual consultants as following:
Background
The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (MoHCW) and the World Bank have appointed Cordaid Zimbabwe, to manage the Results Based Financing (RBF) program in Health focusing on Maternity Child Health (MCH) Care in Zimbabwe, in close partnership with the MoHCW and the World Bank. Cordaid has established an office in Harare and has rolled out the programme into 18 districts of Zimbabwe.
The RBF program, which is being implemented by Cordaid, provides subsidies, directly linked to services delivered at primary health care level, i.e. rural health clinics and district hospitals, based on output performance indicators with the aim to improve the availability, accessibility and utilisation of quality health services at district and rural health centre level.
As we continuously seek to improve the programme, we are building a database with experts in the fields of Health System Strengthening, Quality of Care, Maternal and Child Health, Health Financing, Health Economics and/or Public Finance, Statistics. Cordaid Zimbabwe would like to call upon individual consultants with demonstrated experience in one of these areas and who are interested to offer consultancy service during the programme to submit their full detailed Curriculum Vitae and include the past consultancy services that has been executed before for our reference.
Scope of Assignment
Assignments will be of varied nature and may run from 1 week to 3 months according to the requirement, activity and outcome expected. Any field visit will depend on the scope of the assignment and the stage of the programme. The full scope of the assignment will be detailed in the Terms of Reference when the Cordaid Zimbabwe calls up consultants from the listed database.
Based on your qualifications, an individual consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (current edition).
Qualifications
-Consultants must have completed higher professional education (master level), preferably in public health, health economics, health system management, health administration, business administration, database development/data management and analysis and community health.
-Fluency in English – both verbal and in writing is a must. Ability to speak read and write one of the local languages will be an advantage.
-Understanding of health systems strengthening approaches and service delivery within a constrained operational environment, with Zimbabwe experience.
-Experience of working with different stakeholders and providing advice and skills development will be an added advantage.
The interested consultants are invited to submit their application to the following email address: Hr.zimbabwe [at] cordaid [dot] net
For additional information, please contact Arjanne Rietsema: arjanne.rietsema [at] cordaid [dot] net
Cordaid Zimbabwe will compile the consultancy database according to your field of experience and subsequently we will approach you and update on any opportunities that may arise.