Scope of Work for Road Injury Surveillance Consultant at Vital Strategies

Vital Strategies is a global health organization that believes every person should be protected by a strong public health system. We work with governments and civil society in 73 countries to design and implement evidence-based strategies that tackle their most pressing public health problems. Our goal is to see governments adopt promising interventions at scale as rapidly as possible.

 

Scope of Work for Road Injury Surveillance Consultant

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationMBA/MSc/MA
  • Experience
  • LocationNairobi
  • Job FieldConsultancy  , Data, Business Analysis and AI 

Purpose and Scope of this Assignment/Consultancy

  • Vital Strategies seeks an experienced consultant who will be responsible for supporting the National Transport Safety and Authority (NTSA) data team to develop a national road safety report and work with Vital Strategies’ road injury surveillance team to strengthen road injury surveillance systems in Mombasa County, Kenya. 
  • The consultant should have a minimum of a master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, transport engineering, or similar). The consultant should also have experience in data management and analysis related to public health, transportation, or public policy (experience with statistical analysis software required; GIS) preferred), familiarity with the local context and road safety challenges in Kenya, ability to work in a multi-agency setting, and be willing to travel to Mombasa as required. Lastly, the consultant should have excellent communication and presentation skills with a proven capacity to work independently and in a multidisciplinary team. The consultant is expected to engage closely with NTSA, including in-person time at the NTSA office in Nairobi as required.

Scope of Work/Specific Tasks

  • Engage closely with NTSA’s data team to analyze crash data and support the development of a national road safety report. 
  • Support NTSA on efforts to improve the in-house crash database.
  • Serve as liaison between road safety data stakeholders and BIGRS partners at the national level and in Mombasa County.
  • Coordinate with designated personnel to oversee the abstraction of police crash data in Mombasa County.
  • Train, monitor and oversee contracted data entry staff. 
  • Conduct data cleaning and analysis of designated data sets – including preparing tables, charts, and spatial analysis for identification of high-risk locations.
  • Develop the 2024 road safety report for Mombasa County and disseminate findings to stakeholders.
  • Address data needs of BIGRS partners, NTSA and the County Government of Mombasa. 
  • Prepare and submit monthly reports on progress of deliverables in the template provided by Vital Strategies.

Instructions for Consultant

  • Expressions of Interest. Please provide CV and any other relevant information to Contract Manager at dchekol@vitalstrategies.org 
  • Payment Currency: Please include your daily rate or fee for service. Vital Strategies reserves the right to negotiate fees. Please note that contracts must be executed and paid in the currency of the country where the service provider is based.
  • Questions. Consultants shall refer any questions, via email to dchekol@vitalstrategies.org or edantas@vitalstrategies.org 

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: dchekol@vitalstrategies.org using the position as subject of email.

Expressions of interest must be submitted in PDF format Monday, February 17, 2025. 

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