- Co-chair the HAPPI project MEL work group, a representative body of the overall consortium, ensuring effective coordination of evaluation and learning efforts across the partnership.
- Share leading the portfolio of JSI’s HPV learning activities, with limited supervision and under the direction of the senior technical advisor for MEL.
- Design and implement studies, evaluations, and learning activities focused exclusively on HPV vaccines and HPV vaccination programs.
- Develop data collection tools and methods appropriate to the learning activity and question(s) under study.
- Write data analysis plans and conduct rigorous data analysis and synthesis of both quantitative and qualitative data.
- Draft data collection and implementation logistics plans.
- Contribute to rational inputs for budget assumptions for research and learning activities, especially in-country data collection expenses (staff, time, in-country needs, logistics, data management/analysis, writing outputs, etc.).
- Collaborate with communications and partners to compile and disseminate research and evaluation results to the HPV vaccine and cervical cancer community at country, regional, and global levels.
- Contribute to external communications and dissemination of HPV learning activities, achievements, and lessons learned, as applicable. This may include the development of conference abstracts and conference presentations, peer reviewed manuscripts, presentations for workshops, and others.
- Research and evaluation portfolio may be divided by topic area or study.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Masters or other Advanced degree in public health, medicine or related health field from an accredited institution.
Experience: At least 5 years documented experience in HPV vaccines, vaccination programs, and their evaluation.
Required skills:
Experience: At least 5 years documented experience in HPV vaccines, vaccination programs, and their evaluation.
Required skills:
- Strong understanding of the evidence base for HPV vaccines and HPV vaccination programs in LMICs, with in-country field experience is required.
- Demonstrable experience leading implementation learning design, synthesis, documentation, and dissemination, including study design, data analysis, field implementation, and generation of meaningful written and visual outputs.
- Strong analytic experience working with and manipulating multiple types of data sets, including surveys, interviews, rapid assessments, mixed methods, repeated measures, time trend data, etc., and the appropriate statistical analyses for quantitative and qualitative variables.
- Knowledge of statistical tests of association and logistic regression.
- Proficiency with data management, analysis, visualization software packages for quantitative and qualitative data, e.g., SAS, SPSS, STATA, R, Nvivo, Atlas.ti, Dedoose, MAXQDA, etc.
- Exposure to global health and/or immunization programs in LMICs is required.
- Familiarity with the concepts of gender equity, intentionality, and transformative approaches in program evaluations a plus.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Excellent written and oral communications.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team-based remote-work environment.
- Geographic location negotiable.
Travel:Ability and willingness to travel nationally and internationally.
Languages:Excellent written and oral communication skills in English. Ability to work in French or Portuguese may be useful.