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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:

Director, Impact and Data Use

Department:

Knowledge & Social Medicine

Grade:

6B

Location:

Kigali - Rwanda

Reports to:

Managing Director, Impact & Planning (technical supervisor)

Head Of Division – Knowledge & Social Medicine (administrative supervisor)

Positions reporting to:

N/A

Position Type

Full time

8 Hours per day – 40 hours per week

Contract Type

Fixed-Term Contract

Two years renewable upon availability of funds, organizational needs and performance

Organizational Profile

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities around the world. PIH focuses on those who would not otherwise have access to quality health care. PIH partners with the world’s leading academic institutions to create rigorous evidence that shapes more sound and all-inclusive global health policies. PIH also supports local governments’ efforts to build capacity and strengthen national health systems.

As of today, PIH runs programs in 11 countries (Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Navajo Nation, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, United States), where it provides direct care to millions of patients, through public facilities and community engagement.

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• Position Summary

  The Director, Impact and Data Use will play an important leadership role in advancing Partners In Health’s (PIH) overall use of data for decision-making and influence. This is a cross-site role, focused on strengthening key PIH functions globally as well as working with individual site teams on specific work streams.

  As a senior technical expert on fostering data use and on demonstrating the impact of our work, the Director will lead efforts to advance PIH’s overall approaches to measuring and communicating impact – both in a general sense and specifically related to select cross-cutting PIH strategies, with tuberculosis (TB) as an initial focus.

  The Director will help maintain a continued strong connection between the Strategic Information Systems staff focused on data analytics and the Impact & Planning staff focused on enabling data-driven organizational decision-making and broader dissemination strategies.

  The Director will support efforts to build confidence among monitoring & evaluation (M&E)-focused donors and play a hands-on role in strengthening partnerships between PIH’s care delivery sites and the University for Global Health Equity (UGHE). Over time, the Director will be expected to manage between 1-4 direct reports, while also maintaining strong matrixed relationships with a range of team members.

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  • Responsibilities

    Develop next generation approaches to measuring and communicating PIH’s impact (35%)

    • Serve as an internal resource for insights and creative approaches on measuring and communicating impact, with a particular focus on evaluation approaches with limited baseline data, and on evaluating indirect influence.
      • Building on the set of Core Metrics developed as part of the PIH Strategic Plan, identify opportunities to better mine existing data resources for insights that can inform programming or achieve external influence. Contribute to refining clearer organization-wide outcomes-level targets for PIH’s next five years.
        • Lead direct and indirect team members to design evaluation questions, establish analytical methods, and implement with an emphasis on building team capacity.
          • In partnership with our Board Strategy & Engagement Team, develop processes to identify impact evaluation-related priorities from PIH Board members, oversee the process of addressing these questions, and develop clear and effective communications materials for leadership audiences.

            Serve as a technical data science expert on key cross-cutting PIH strategies (30%)

            • With an initial focus on PIH’s strategy around comprehensive approaches to eliminate TB, serve as part of a “core team” that partners with colleagues across PIH to establish measurement priorities, strengthen data systems, and creatively convey the impact of our work.
              • In partnership with PIH’s Research & Program Replication and Strategic Information Systems teams, work closely with world-leading technical experts at Harvard Medical School and elsewhere to ensure close collaboration between formal research efforts on TB (and other topics) and routine monitoring systems.
                • As part of the TB core team, provide technical support to colleagues in PIH’s Resource Generation Branch to ensure alignment between resource mobilization efforts, evidence gaps, and M&E approaches.

                  Serve as a bridge across PIH sites to more effectively share learnings from PIH programming and translate documentation of impact into external influence (20%)

                  • Establish processes to better connect monitoring & evaluation leads from across sites to enable shared learning.
                    • Serve as a core PIH partner to a planned collaborative center within the University for Global Health Equity (UGHE). Identifying a pipeline of projects for collaboration, support the center’s setup process, and refine scopes of work related to impact assessment and knowledge dissemination.
                      • Working closely with the Managing Director, Impact & Planning, as well as Resource Generation Branch colleagues, support efforts to cultivate potential donors interested in data use and impact evaluation priorities.

                        Provide technical accompaniment to impact evaluation efforts across PIH care delivery sites (15%)

                        • Establish strong processes for tracking site priorities on M&E, quality improvement, and research, and work with relevant teams to streamline efforts to build capacity and strengthen outputs.
                          • Oversee the implementation of an existing small grants mechanism for impact evaluations, leading team members to refine selection criteria and provide direct technical support.
                            • Provide peer mentorship to M&E champions identified across PIH sites, supporting ongoing professional development as well as advising on site-identified projects (e.g., developing M&E frameworks for grant applications, or translating impact measurement into external messaging). Collaborate with colleagues on PIH’s Strategic Information Systems team on efforts to ensure availability of routinely collected data points needed to show impact, improve data management, analysis, and use skills among data and clinical colleagues across sites.

                              Required Qualifications

                              Education background:

                              • Master’s degree in public health, statistical methods, or a related field.

                                Work Experience

                                • 8+ years of relevant work experience including in data science, monitoring & evaluation, implementation research, health information systems, and impact modelling, including at least 3 years of team leadership.
                                  • Knowledge of advanced analytical methods for evaluating impact, including approaches that address limitations in data availability.
                                    • Experience working with diverse teams and stakeholders, cross-functionally and cross-geographically, including working across multiple time zones.
                                      • Experience in overseeing complex organizational projects, including design, implementation, project management and evaluation.
                                        • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively through written and verbal channels to internal and external stakeholders – including adapting technical topics for a range of audiences.
                                          • Ability to solve problems creatively to meet organizational goals and objectives.