WHO & Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) seeks a Senior SRH Researcher (Delhi)

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WHO/ Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) seeks a Senior Researcher on “Gathering

Evidence to Promote Sexual Health” (Delhi, India)

Terms of Reference: World Health Organisation (WHO) in collaboration with the

Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) of the Netherlands is currently undertaking an

assessment of sexuality counselling interventions as part of its broader project

entitled: “Gathering Evidence to Promote Sexual Health”. The aim of the project

is to assess the contribution of sexuality counselling (or counselling that

purposefully addresses sexuality related issues) interventions to a broader SRH

and HIV/AIDS programme that has been previously evaluated or assessed as a

successful and/or effective programme. The study will be a rapid appraisal

taking approximately three to four weeks for each site with a focus on assessing

the quality of sexuality counselling intervention, identification of factors

influencing the quality of counselling and the relative outcome of the

counselling intervention on the broader programme goals and objectives.

Through these assessments we hope to document “best practices” in sexuality

counselling. This information will contribute to the evidence base on the

importance of addressing sexuality within broader SRH and HIV/AIDS programmes.

The assessments will be conducted between January-March 2007 and the results

will be used (when appropriate) to inform the development of guidelines for

providing good quality sexuality related counselling in the provision of SRH and

HIV/AIDS services. The assessments take place in four countries: Kenya, Uganda,

Brazil and India.

A researcher will be contracted by the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) to carry

out the following activities in Delhi, India:

1. To revise the protocol (including adaptation of the selected instruments) to

become site specific for the identified programmes and their particular form of

sexuality counselling interventions.

To undertake all necessary preparations to secure local ethical clearance, and

presentation of the protocol before ethical clearance boards in the country.

To undertake all necessary preparations for the assessment of the project site:

a) Collection and organisation of materials for the desk review, and the

analysis of this information

Organisation of Focus Group Discussions

c) Identification of key informants for the in-depth interviews

d) Identification of stakeholders for interviews and analysis

To carry out the research with the research team

To participate in the analysis and report writing workshop and to co-write the

final assessment report (and subsequent article as appropriate)

Timeline: Approximately 20 days over the course of three months and

remuneration: Rs. 2.25 lakhs

Profile requirements of researcher:

- 5-10 years of experience working on, and preferably evaluating SRH and HIV

programmes in one of the selected countries

- Advanced degree in public health

- No direct affiliation with any of the organisations to be assessed

- Excellent analytical and writings skills

- Excellent command of written and spoken Hindi and English

Interested candidates should send their CV and a letter of interest to

s.nayak@... by 27th November 2006. Short-listed candidates will be contacted

directly by the India Research Team (interviews likely in December 2006).

Sanjoy K. Nayak

e-mail: <sanjoy_k_nayak@...>