Scientific Writing and Research Consultant | SOW
Location: Remote
LOE: Dependent on Individual Task Orders
Timeline: June 2023 – December 2025
Reports to: Head of Strategic Research and Learning

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TO PROVIDE : Scientific Writing and Research Consultant Services

LAST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF
CLARIFICATION QUESTIONS BY PSI : September 1st, 2023

LAST DATE FOR RESPONSES BY PSI : October 1st, 2023

RFP CLOSING DATE AND PLACE : October 1st, 2023

PROPOSALS AND CLARIFYING QUESTIONS MAY BE DELIVERED BY EMAIL TO: [email protected] and [email protected]

BACKGROUND

Population Services International (PSI) is a global health and development organization working in more than 50 countries to make quality, affordable health care accessible to people where and when they need it. Out of the 7 billion people on the planet, 3.5 billion do not have access to quality essential healthcare. This inequity must change. PSI believes that health equity can only be achieved by drawing on the power of the public and private sectors and putting more control in consumers’ hands, and giving them quality affordable health care where and when they need it. PSI works with consumers, at the community level, to understand what they want and need in health resources. We then leverage our global network of 8,000 experts and our partnership in the public and private sector to fill in gaps in the markets. Join PSI’s efforts to make quality affordable health care accessible to people where and when they need it.

The Strategy & Insights (S&I) Department promotes best practice in program design, marketing discipline, research, learning, and strategy development. S&I works with other departments to systematically capture, synthesize, and share internal and external evidence, consumer and market insights, competitive market intelligence, and program experience. As part of S&I, the Strategic Research and Learning Team is accountable for establishing and advancing an organizational learning agenda, ensuring the identification and exchange of learning and insights internally, and for the implementation, use and elevation of quality, ethical research. The SR&L team is seeking a pool of Scientific Writing and Research consultants to support the organization through Indefinite Quantity Contracts (IQC) – a flexible arrangement for the provision of an indefinite amount of services within a fixed period. Individual Task Orders will be issued under the IQC which state the specific assignment, dates, and timeline.
Sound like you? Read on.

SCOPE OF WORK

We will be seeking consultants to provide support to some or all of these tasks as a Scientific Writing/Communication Consultant:

• Conduct tasks associated with scientific writing, such as leading rapid reviews, systematic reviews, and supporting or editing peer review manuscript submissions
• Lead (or support) the production of professional quality research outputs
• Develop professional quality graphics, infographics, data dashboards, or visual representations of data

We will be seeking consultants to provide support to some or all of these tasks as a Research Consultant:

• Advanced statistical modeling and demand forecasting
• Health systems research design
• Econometric analysis

REQUESTED APPLICATION MATERIALS

• Interested candidates should provide their cover letter and CV as well as a writing sample.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

• Master’s Degree or PhD in relevant field (e.g., implementation science, public health, anthropology, sociology, statistics, demography, epidemiology, behavioral science, economics)
• Extensive familiarity in one or more of the following areas:
  • sexual and reproductive health (experience in self-injection, safe abortion, and medical abortion preferred);
  • gender-based violence;
  • water and sanitation (experience in urban sanitation preferred);
  • malaria;
  • self-diagnostics (experience in HIV self-testing and HPV self-sampling preferred);
  • digital health;
  • health systems strengthening and health financing; and/or
  • primary health care/health services utilization.
• Demonstrated qualifications and expertise to conduct the tasks listed under the Score of Work for each consultant type.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to independently produce deliverables
• Ability to work across teams, time zones, and groups over whom there is no direct authority to accomplish project goals
• Experience and excellence in working with large, multinational and intercultural teams.
• French language skills a plus #LI-LM1 #LI-Remote