# National Health Needs Assessment Consultant

**Company**: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
**Location**: Dushanbe
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: consultancy
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

IOM is seeking a National Health Needs Assessment Consultant to conduct a mixed-method needs assessment of vulnerable groups and mobile populations in selected border communities of Tajikistan/Uzbekistan.

The overall objective of this assignment is to generate evidence on the health needs, vulnerabilities, health-related risks, barriers to accessing health services, and priority concerns of these populations.

Key responsibilities:

- Review and support the contextualization and translation of the mixed-method assessment methodology and data collection tools

- Conduct stock-taking and desk review of border health and cross-border assessments

- Conduct a capacity development exercise on the data collection tools and the use of KoboToolbox

- Support the planning and organization of field activities

- Conduct an assessment using the agreed methodology and tools

- Clean, organize, and validate quantitative and qualitative data collected through the assessment

- Prepare a field assessment report and provide inputs to the International Consultant for preparation of the overall assessment report

- Participate in coordination and technical meetings with IOM, the International Consultant, government counterparts, and other relevant stakeholders

- Develop a joint strategy on reducing health risks among the most vulnerable populations in border areas

Deliverables:

- Completed field assessment report

- Draft health needs assessment report

- Finalized health needs assessment report

Requirements:

- University degree in Health Sciences, including public health, epidemiology, and other relevant disciplines

- Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience in public health research

- Demonstrated experience in conducting or supporting needs assessments, health facility assessments, or similar public health assessments

- Knowledge of and experience with relevant WHO health facility assessment tools and methodologies

- Experience in adapting and applying assessment methodologies, questionnaires, and other data collection tools

- Experience in data collection and management using KoboToolbox or similar digital data collection platforms

- Good analytical and report-writing skills

- Demonstrated experience working with international organizations, government institutions, and other relevant stakeholders

- Fluency in written and oral English, Uzbek/Tajik, and Russian

## Skills

### Required
- public health research
- epidemiology
- health facility assessments
- KoboToolbox
- data collection
- data management
- analytical skills
- report-writing skills
- English
- Uzbek
- Tajik
- Russian

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