Country: Liberia
Closing date: 04 Sep 2015
Commitment: 12-month commitment (immediate start), including reasonable vacation time
Location: Liberia (50% Monrovia, 50% field sites)
Compensation: Salary commensurate with experience; reimbursement of travel expenses
Reports to: Director of Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation
Overview:
In August 2012, Last Mile Health (known as Tiyatien Health in Liberia) launched a new pilot project to provide lifesaving care to rural communities in the most remote corners of Liberia. We partnered with a small rural clinic and began training a cohort of community health workers (CHW), with the goal of designing an integrated, scalable model for providing community-based care for the top killers of women and children in remote communities. As part of its recovery effort after the end of the Ebola outbreak, the Liberia Ministry of Health has prioritized launching a national community health workforce able to prevent, diagnose, and treat the most life-threatening health conditions. Working side-by-side, LMH and the MOH are designing and implementing a national roll-out of a network of community health workers to stretch the country’s primary health services to the most rural communities to improve maternal and child health and serve as a front-line response for future outbreaks.
The Research, Monitoring, & Evaluation (RME) department seeks to understand the health status of our target population, measure the extent to which we are saving lives, evaluate our overall success as an organization, and share these successes with the broader global health community. The Deputy Director of Program Monitoring will design and lead efforts to make Last Mile Health a more data-driven organization through data systems design,
Tasks & Responsibilities:
Set the overall vision for our program monitoring system, with the goal of ensuring that everyone in the organization has the data they need to efficiently and effectively perform their jobs
Work closely with our programs team to design and refine monitoring systems to align with the needs of CHWs, CHW Leaders, and other field staff, and directly support the improvement of patient care
Directly supervise four staff members – our Data Systems Designer, Field Associate, Implementation Manager, and National Policy Manager – to set goals and manage workflows towards a high-performing monitoring system
Work with our Lead Software Architect to design and maintain a data reporting system that will allow all staff to easily access programmatic data
Conduct field visits with community health workers and other field staff to observe current data collection processes and generate ideas for improving tools and processes
Actively train and build the capacity of our field-based M&E staff, and provide coaching to ensure that the team is capable of overseeing and running our data systems
Work with our development team to ensure that they have all of the data and information needed for grant proposals and reports
Qualifications:
Graduate degree in a relevant field (e.g. biostatistics, mathematics) with a quantitative focus (bachelor’s degree considered for outstanding candidates)
3+ years’ experience with business analysis, business intelligence, and/or data reporting
3+ years’ experience managing individual staff or teams
Experience monitoring public health programs is preferred
Familiarity with relational databases (e.g. MySQL) and/or statistical analysis is preferred
Strong written and verbal communication abilities
Experience working in sub-Saharan Africa is preferred
Eagerness to learn new analytical techniques and work with complicated datasets produced within challenging, real-world conditions
How to apply:
To Apply:
Please submit a resume, letter of interest, and three professional references. Materials can be submitted through our online application platform (http://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/tiyatienhealth/deputy-director-of-program-monitoring/dQQxJUphCr5z3VdG1ZS6tF?ref=rss&sid=68)