Duties & Responsibilities:

[Data Impact Program – 75%]

Serve as a senior technical lead; provide direct technical assistance to government partners and participate in developing global technical assistance strategies and products. With guidance from the Principal Technical Advisor of the Data Impact Program, the Senior Technical Advisor will:

Program Development and Implementation – 

• Establish relationships and collaborate with senior government officials to develop detailed country-owned work plans that maximize local impact;
• Coordinate the engagement of in-country project staff and consultants;
• Design, develop, revise, disseminate, and promote technical guidelines and training materials required to support planned technical assistance activities;
• Deliver training, mentoring, and other technical assistance activities on topics related to data use in public health policy;
• Manage and lead the provision of technical assistance to the country in order to achieve the objectives outlined in the work plans, including promoting the institutionalization and sustainability of data use system improvements;
• Monitor the implementation of activities, track impact against key project milestones and deliverables, and propose adjustments to work plans (as needed);
• Develop procedures and resources for institutionalizing technical areas of work in countries;
• Represent the program at technical/stakeholder meetings and regional/global conferences with external agencies, international organizations, donor institutions, county/national government, and other implementing partners with minimal support and oversight;

Administration/Finance – 

• Ensure execution of agreements with relevant stakeholders (e.g., Memorandum of Understanding, Sub-grant agreements, fiscal agent agreements, and other contractual relationships);
• Manage the allocation of available resources (e.g., staff time, money, materials) to maximize country results;
• Monitor budget and track expenses against key project milestones and deliverables;
• Serve as the primary point of communication between the Data for Health Initiative and government officials, internal technical advisors, and external consultants in countries.

[Cancer Registry Program – 25%]

With guidance from the Director, Cancer Registry, the Senior Technical Advisor will:

Program Development and Implementation – 

• Establish relationships and collaborate with stakeholders in three IARC-GICR (International Agency for Research on Cancer – Global Initiative for Cancer Registration) collaborating centers located in Côte D’Ivoire, Nairobi, and Johannesburg
• Design, develop, revise, disseminate, and promote technical guidelines and training materials required to support planned technical assistance activities;
• Deliver training, mentoring, and other technical assistance activities on topics related to cancer registry principles and methods, reporting, and CanReg5;
• Manage and lead the provision of technical assistance to countries working with collaborating centers in order to achieve the objectives outlined in the work plans;
• Monitor the implementation of activities, track impact against key project milestones and deliverables, and propose adjustments to work plans (as needed);
• Participate in the development of procedures and resources for implementing cancer registry activities;
• Participate in the development of global goods (e.g., monitoring and evaluation frameworks) for the Cancer Registry Program.

Administration/Finance – 

• Ensure execution of agreements with collaborating centers (e.g., Memorandum of Understanding, Sub-grant agreements, fiscal agent agreements, and other contractual relationships);
• Manage the allocation of available resources (e.g. staff time, money, materials) to maximize country results;
• Monitor budget and track expenses against key project milestones and deliverables; review expenses and financial reconciliations.

Other – 

• Other duties as assigned by the Director and Principal Technical Advisor, Data Impact, and the Director, Cancer Registry.

Qualifications:

Education and Degree – 

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., public health, epidemiology) required. Master’s degree preferred.

Skills and Abilities – 

• Demonstrated experience and expertise in public health;
• Experience working in low- and middle-income countries and on projects with strong data components;
• Prior experience working in or with government ministries that focus on public health;
• Experience delivering training or capacity strengthening to professional audiences;
• Project management experience;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills;
• Strong interpersonal skills;
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge in Microsoft Office;
• Experience with statistical software packages such as R, STATA or SPSS;
• Experience with visualization software such as Tableau or Power BI is desirable;
• Proficient in oral and written English and French is required, proficiency in other languages will be an advantage;
• Ability to build strong, ongoing, impactful relationships at all organizational levels and across a diverse range of cultural, generational, ethnic, racial, educational, and social backgrounds;
• Demonstrated commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment.

Experience:

Required – 

• 10 or more years of relevant experience in public health practice, epidemiology, or global health policy;
• Experience with statistical software packages such as R, STATA or SPSS;
• Proven proficiency in oral and written French.

Preferred –       

• Prior experience with visualization software such as Tableau or Power BI;
• Experience working and/or living in any of the Francophone nations in Africa