Project Profile Palladium has recently been awarded a cooperative agreement to implement the USAID County Measurement, Learning and Accountability Program (CMLAP) in Kenya. The purpose of this activity is to support ongoing activities by the national and county governments and other development partners to strengthen outcome measurements, learning and accountability (MLA) systems in order to provide quality data and synthesized information for planning, implementation, policy development and decision making. This activity will focus its support in the following HIV, malaria and MNCH focal counties of Homabay, Migori, Kisii, Kakamega, Busia, Vihiga, Bungoma, and Kisumu.
A 25 person team will be recruited to work in Kisumu to achieve the project results. Palladium is recruiting 21 staff and Plan 4 staff. The team will be led by a Chief of Party also based in Kisumu. Palladium staff in Nairobi and our international offices will provide routine technical and administrative support and assistance. Position Summary The Senior Analytics Specialist will provide overall guidance and support on data analysis for sub purposes 1 and 2 (See above). S/he will be skilled in mining data, and the application of inferential statistical methods to convert county clinical and public health data into information for evidence-informed programming. The Sr. Analytics Specialist will be well versed with the use of data mining tools, such as SQL and Access, and statistical applications, such as SAS and SPSS. S/he will work closely with the M&E Advisor as well as the Senior Data Systems Specialist and Senior DDU and Learning Specialist to support outcome measurement activities and ensure that data analyses support information needed by CHMTs to answer key questions and support decision making, and for quality improvement. This position is based in Kisumu, Kenya. No expatriate or relocation benefits are associated with this position. Key Responsibilities
- Work with the M&E Advisor to strengthen/develop a framework and system for health outcome measurement at the county and sub county levels. The framework will include priority health questions; associated outcome measures, data sources, and methods; and guidance on frequency of data collection, reporting, dissemination and how to ensure internal and external data consistency.
- Build consensus among county MLA stakeholders on priority health-sector outcome measures that will be included in the three-year Health Sector Report and the CIDP.
- Work with the Senior Governance Specialist to generate county-level funding to support improved outcome measurement and MLA systems.
- Work with the M&E Advisor to mine and triangulate data from disparate county data systems.
- Work with the County Learning and Planning Specialists and the Sr. Data Use Specialist to support counties to:
- Continuously use data for quality improvement;
- Routinely review data for use to improve service delivery and clinical/public health decision support;
- Monitor progress against targets in their AWP with public expenditure reviews and outcome and output measurements;
- Increase the use of gender and age-disaggregated data in particular, and inferential statistics in general for evidence-informed management of the program
- Inculcate a culture of data demand and use, including the provision of routine high-level statistical analyses
- Lead the development of data analysis for information products and data dashboards. This position will also support senior leadership in their collaboration with HIGDA.
- Inculcate a culture of data demand and information use within CHMTs, including the provision of routine high-level statistical analyses.
- Link to Palladium counter-parts within the Kenya Measure Evaluation, Health Policy Plus and Strategic Information teams, for cross-platform learning and sharing of strategies and techniques.
Educational background and Experience
- Masters Level of Education in related field, e.g. MSc (Epidemiology/Biostatistics/Biometry)
- 5+ years' experience in an analytic/statistical position for a PEPFAR project
- Appropriate software skills necessary to mine data from databases, such as SQL, or equivalent
- Appropriate software skills necessary to conduct, analysis of study data, such as STATA, SPSS, or equivalent
- Demonstrated ability strengthening outcome measurement systems and/or conducting outcome analysis.
- Demonstrated experience working with DHIS2, EMRs and other relevant Kenyan health information systems.
- Strong written and oral communication skills for high-level policy audiences (writing examples may be required)
- Excellent coordination, and information management skills
- The ability to work well under pressure and skilled in change management, and problem solving
- Ability to develop and maintain relationships with users and various stakeholders (local and international); developed cultural awareness and innovation sense.
- Ability and willingness to travel frequently within Kenya and work under field conditions
- Fluency in written and spoken English and Swahili.
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