John Snow, Inc., and our nonprofit JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., are public health management consulting and research organizations dedicated to improving the health of individuals and communities throughout the world. JSI's mission is to improve the health of underserved people and communities and to provide a place where people of passion and commitment can pursue this cause. For 35 years, Boston-based JSI and our affiliates have provided high-quality technical and managerial assistance to public health programs worldwide. JSI has implemented projects in 106 countries, and currently operates from eight U.S. and 81 international offices, with more than 500 U.S.-based professionals and 1,600 host country staff. JSI is deeply committed to improving the health of individuals and communities worldwide. We work in partnership with governments, organizations, and host-country experts to improve quality, access and equity of health systems worldwide. We collaborate with government agencies, the private sector, and local nonprofit and civil society organizations to achieve change in communities and health systems.
Position Summary
- The Data Analytics and Visualization Program Associate is responsible for designing and implementing a strategic vision for electronic systems to analyze, report, visualize, and disseminate program data.
- S/he will work closely with the Senior MEAL Advisor and project team to implement innovative data visualization tools tailored to country-specific needs.
Major Accountabilities
- Working in close coordination with the Senior MEAL Advisor and other technical leads, manages the development and execution of a roadmap for new and/or existing applications or initiatives to support data management, analysis, visualization, and use.
- Oversees the creation and dissemination of analytic tools including user-friendly front-end interfaces, automated routinely generated reports, queries, and analytic datasets to the project team, the donor, ministries of health (MOH), and key stakeholders.
- Advises on data management systems security and compliance with national guidelines.
- Leads efforts to develop robust, user-friendly, high-quality interfaces for data visualization.
- Supports increased data use across the project for program monitoring and evaluation.
- Supports preparation of regular and ad hoc data products.
- Collaborates with and supports requests to examine data in key content areas.
- Lead analysis for program M&E using routinely collected service delivery data.
- Generate summary reports for reporting and program M&E.
- Develop a curriculum and implement analysis training(s) for MRITE staff and partners.
- Oversees the creation and maintenance of codebooks, user guides, documentation, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) as needed for project strategic information (SI) systems.
- Proactively maintains knowledge of recent developments such as “big data” analytics applications and data visualization.
- Perform other related duties as required.
Requirements
Educational Qualification:
- A First Degree in Public Health, Demography, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Management, or a related discipline.
- An advanced degree is an added advantage.
Experience, Skills, and Other Requirements:
- 2-4 years of experience managing and analyzing large data sets and experience with advanced statistical analysis.
- Demonstrated experience working with SPSS, SQL, STATA, and Microsoft Office Applications.
- Demonstrated experience working with Geo-special analysis tools, e.g. QGIS, and ArcGIS.
- Demonstrated experience with Thinkcell, PowerBi or Tableau.
- Experience in the design, implementation, and management of health monitoring and evaluation systems in low-resource settings.
- Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.
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