GLOBAL HEALTH DATA ANALYST, Global Health

Location:
District of Columbia
United States

Project HOPE is an international NGO of more than 900 engaged employees and hundreds of volunteers who work in more than 25 countries, responding to the world’s most pressing global health challenges. Throughout our 60-year legacy, Project HOPE has treated millions of patients and provided more than $3 billion worth of medicines to local health care organizations around the world. We have helped build hundreds of health programs from the ground up and responded to humanitarian crises worldwide.

Code of Conduct

It is our shared responsibility and obligation to treat each other with respect, take affirmative steps to prevent matters involving Sexual Exploitation & Abuse and Trafficking in Persons, and to disclose all potential and actual violations of our Code of Conduct, which may include Conflicts of Interest, Fraud, Corruption, Discrimination or Harassment. Together we can reinforce a culture of respect, integrity, accountability, and transparency.

POSITION SUMMARY: Temporary - 1 year assignment

The Data Analyst at Project HOPE/Global Health is responsible for the design, development, and delivery of analytics solutions to monitor the performance of Global Health Programs, leveraging a variety of analytic methods, tools, visualizations, and modeling techniques. This includes consultation with leadership to assess analytics needs and facilitation of solution development by managing multiple concurrent efforts. The analyst works under the supervision of the Deputy Chief Health Officer and along with a Monitoring and Evaluation team as well as geographic and programmatic strategy units at Project HOPE. Data Analyst will interact with variety of stakeholders, coordinating analytic activities across the global health programs with Project HOPE staff across country offices, regional and HQ-based leadership.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop, maintain, and adapt a Project HOPE dashboard for leadership to reflect overall program performance across programs around the world

• Develop and disseminate a monthly program performance report which reflects established performance indicators for each project around the world

• Participate in and/or lead data analytic and evidence-based improvement projects within Project HOPE

• Continuously advance expertise in data/analytics competencies

• Utilize statistical programs like SQL/R and other query tools to analyze large quantities of data, from multiple complex internal and external sources to glean understanding, develop dashboards and derive actionable insights into organizational performance and the external environment, and measure progress toward strategic initiatives

• Leveraging knowledge and skill with a variety of analytic tools, design, create, maintain powerful visualizations and models that illuminate opportunities to support strategic planning and initiatives, improve organizational performance, project future demand, and advance progress towards Project HOPE annual goals

• Provide relevant and appropriate consultation including, as appropriate, oral and written presentations at meetings or to leadership

• Proactively develop and maintain working knowledge including organizational structure, core leaders, decision makers, relationships with other functional areas, and the market

• Learn continuously and share ideas

• Develop and maintain trusted advisor relationships that include guidance, as appropriate, for optimizing use of analytic capabilities and deliverables, and prioritization based on strategic vision

• Validate all work through reasonability checks; comparisons to historical results and benchmarks; end user validation processes; and other processes established by the team

• Complete all documentation of data structures; measures and metadata; assumptions and models; reports and analyses; user focused aids and training materials; and other documentation as required

• May provide peer review of colleagues’ coding, results, analyses and other end products.

• Maintain and update existing reports and tools based on changes in strategic priorities, the external environment, underlying software, data-structure changes, or end-user workflows Maintain understanding and knowledge of applications, reporting/analysis tools and analytics strategy implemented by Project HOPE.

• Interpret government and other reporting requirements, including quarterly reporting

• Apply a common set of business rules and methodologies to analytic work.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education

Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Data Science or related field. (Relevant work experience in low and middle income may be considered in lieu of educational requirement)

Preferred Master’s degree in Healthcare, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Data Science or related field strongly preferred.

Work Experience

Minimum • Code development using statistical software like SAS/R/SQL • Visualization of data using R or Python • Statistical or descriptive analyses using R or Python • Routine program data analysis

Preferred • Program Quality Assessment • Program Indicator Performance Evaluation Dashboard * Performance measure development • Organization, analysis and modeling of multiple unstructured data sources

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

• Demonstrates professional maturity surrounding data access, data security, data sensitivity, and data confidentiality.

• Demonstrated attention to detail

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines

• Strong demonstrated learning aptitude and orientation

• Ability to teach, mentor and consult with others

• Demonstrated fluency with SQL/R

• Develop data/analytics competencies consistent with the role, and progress to capable or outstanding level in at least 5 competencies in domains including subject matter expertise, analytic methods and tools, business intelligence, data management, data architecture, analysis and critical thinking skills, data governance, analytics education/learning, ontology, and metadata.

• Proficient verbal and written communication skills

• Proficient interpersonal relations skills, ability to effectively collaborate with others and work as part of a team

• Able to navigate a large organization with multiple projects and country presence in order to accomplish results

• Ability to initiate and follow through on complex projects of both short and long-term duration

• Proficient organizational and time management skills.

• Proficient analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills

• Able to work independently, assumes responsibility for job development and training, researches and resolves questions and problems, requests supervisor input and keeps supervisor informed

• Completes projects of intermediate to substantial depth and complexity, works with internal customers at many levels in the organization

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be mobile in an office environment and able to use standard office equipment.

• Must be able to communicate in verbal and written form and must be able to travel internationally.

• Project HOPE employees may be required to travel or work in countries where working conditions are classified as “hardship.”

Work environment:

• Typical office environment with exposure to a minimal noise level.

• Emergency deployments may be in resource-deprived environments with austere living conditions.

• Travel for extended periods may be by air and/or other modes of transportation.

• While international travel is not a regular part of every job, programmatic needs may require it intermittently.

• Project HOPE employees may be required to travel or work in countries where working conditions are classified as “hardship.”

Due to the substantial number of inquiries, we receive, only candidates who have met the required experience & qualifications for this position will be considered. No phone calls please.

However, since we are active around the world in the field of public health, we may wish to retain your CV in our database for other/future opportunities, unless you direct us otherwise.

Thank you very much for your interest in Project HOPE.