Senior Program Associate, Data Science, Global Health Programs

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Manage data integration and analysis: Lead efforts to gather, integrate, and analyze health financing data from various sources to provide real-time insights into available resources, both domestic and donor assistance.
• Create data visualization tools that promote usability: Develop and manage a dashboard to track health care resources - both available resources and gaps in financing - to support accurate, timely data for evidence-based health financing decisions.
• Design and develop mathematical models: Support development of cost effectiveness, health impact, forecasting, optimization, and other relevant mathematical models to extend the team's insights; synthesize inputs from multiple quantitative and qualitative sources and engage with internal modeling experts as needed.
• Support development of evidence-backed recommendations: Use analytical work to aid government partners in designing actionable recommendations to streamline funding, increase efficiency, and support best practices in healthcare programming.
• Assist with investment case development: Collaborate with government partners to build strong, data-driven cases for domestic funding allocations and pursuit of additional donor assistance.
• Facilitate learning and knowledge sharing: Lead the facilitation of a learning agenda that shares insights, case studies, and best practices with other implementing partners, countries, and stakeholders.
• Present key findings: Prepare content for internal and external presentations to share findings and gather feedback on programs of work.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in the private sector or NGO sector working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment (e.g., strategy consulting, investment banking, health financing).
• Master's degree in business, economics, public health or related field strongly preferred.
• Experience in conducting and synthesizing research across health and technical disciplines, with the ability to quickly understand new political or technical contexts.
• Technical skills in quantitative and qualitative data manipulation and analysis, including building and maintaining analytical models, collecting, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing diverse data sets.
• Basic experience with modeling disciplines such as cost effectiveness, simulation, forecasting, and resource optimization; ability to evaluate and document assumptions.
• Ability to distill strategic insights and communicate effectively through reports and presentations to diverse audiences including donors, government leaders, and health experts.
• Experience working with Ministries of Health and partners in low- and middle-income countries; experience supporting senior MOH officials is a strong plus.
• Proven effectiveness working in a globally-distributed, team-based environment, with capacity for independent work and initiative.
• Experience with project management, managing to budget and deadlines.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
• Ability and willingness to travel internationally, less than 10% of the time.

Nice to Have

• Experience working directly with senior Ministry of Health officials in LMICs.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in business, economics, public health or related field (strongly preferred).
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in a results-oriented environment.

Benefits & Perks

• This is a non-benefitted position.
• The hourly rate for this temporary role in the U.S. is $43.26, with final salary based on objective factors.