Girl Effect Online Community Research Jobs
Published On:
7th, August 2023
Closes on:
9th, August 2023
Job closed
Job Description
With the support of MSD for Mothers, Girl Effect will design, launch, and implement an 18-month project (Binti Stawi) to develop a new digital product and service that will help connect young women in Kenya to sexual and reproductive health services and products (pep, prep, oral contraception, IUDs, implants, consultations with gynaecologist and more).
Responsibilities:
For both components of the study, the successful agency will be responsible for:
- Designing a compelling and youth-friendly online community, including baseline, endline and tools for the offline component.
- Translate and back-translate the tools.
- Ensuring the sampled girls get exposed to the intervention (a WhatsApp-based chatbot, USSD service, and other modes of content - radio, social media, website) through fun and engaging tasks and activities.
- Providing an inception report, including the plans for tool design, final sampling strategy, agreed research plan and timeline, data quality and management, research ethics and safeguarding processes.
- Gaining ethical approval for this study from the required bodies
- Advising on sample design within specification and agreeing on the final design with Girl Effect
- Recruiting communities and participants according to the provided purposive sampling criteria
- Piloting of tools, including debriefing and working sessions with Girl Effect to refine and finalise the tools before the
research
- Any testing and scripting required for the community, baseline/endline surveys and off-line component
- Obtaining informed consent from all participants
- Managing the online community for the duration of the research
- Facilitating any off-line FGDs or methodologies proposed
- Ensuring quality control and data management
- Full data analysis
- Maintaining a database of respondents for future research re-contact
- Cleaned, labelled, securely stored, and correctly coded datasets in English for any quantitative data and complete qualitative data transcripts. Agency to provide details on what will be available.
- Final evaluation report of the differences between baseline and endline surveys.
- Final qualitative report sharing user feedback and qualitative user impact stories.
- To ensure all work is conducted according to the Girl Effect Girl Safeguarding Policy and an agreed safeguarding agreement.
- A wrap-up session with Girl Effect to debrief the online community.
- Girl Effect will be responsible for the final sign-off of all steps involved in the above process.
Requirements:
- Experience in designing and conducting online communities
- Access to a suitable online community platform
- Capacity to deliver all areas expected of this research, from recruiting to our sampling criteria to developing and managing the online community, ensuring quality assurance and working in line with research ethics principles
- Experience in designing and conducting online communities in Kenya, especially with children/girls, preferably in multiple regions
- Experience in research with minors and adolescents and in safeguarding policies and procedures
- Excellent and demonstrated understanding of Child Protection/ Safeguarding and ethical issues in research
- Excellent online community management and data quality control strategies
- Ability to conduct a risk assessment and mitigation plans for research
- Proven record of effectively managing relationships with research partners
- Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstration of effectively managing relationships with research partners
- Exceptional communication and organization skills
- Ability to respond to comments and questions in a timely, appropriate manner
- Experience in delivering outputs on time and on budget