The Role
At Last Mile Health (LMH), we dig evidence and data. Do you have experience analyzing routine health systems and survey data for public health? If so, you may be our next Data Analyst for Liberia.
LMH partners with governments to design and refine community health policies and systems, upskill the community health workforce, and demonstrate effective community-based primary care to sustain responsive and resilient community health systems and improve health equity and outcomes in rural and remote communities.
LMH has partnered with the Ministry of Health in Liberia for more than 15 years and, this year, celebrates with them the 10th Anniversary of the National Community Health Program. LMH has helped MOH build out the policies, directly managed CHW programs in three counties, and developed important innovations in technical approaches, service delivery, training, and reporting. The robust implementation of this national CHW program has benefited from a long history of MERL, including research partnerships with international universities, population-based surveys, project-level M&E, national monitoring systems, and routine data collection and analysis of community-based information (CBIS).
The Data Analyst will work with the Liberia team to develop and implement data analysis and visualization protocols, and MERL plans to measure and understand progress against health systems strengthening, community health workforce upskilling, and community-based primary care service delivery within the Liberia program. The Data Analyst will collaborate with the Liberia MERL and program teams in providing high-level data analysis and visualization skills to the Liberia team, helping to share findings with country team programs and other identified stakeholders, including but not limited to executive leadership, LMH funders, and Ministries of Health.
This is a fixed-term role, based in Liberia and open to candidates who are Liberian nationals currently located in Liberia.
Duration: Two years
What you’ll do
- Conduct data analysis of key MERL routines and survey-based data collection initiatives.
- Help develop and implement research protocols and MERL plans for Liberia programs and projects, inclusive of learning or evaluation questions, methods, indicators, targets (as applicable), and analytics.
- Contribute to the design of evaluation studies, including household surveys, and oversee their implementation
- Lead engagement with program teams to ensure MERL plans are fit for purpose and responsive to programmatic priorities and learning needs.
- Adapt or develop data collection tools (e.g., surveys, key informant interview guides, focus group guides) and manage the implementation of those tools and analysis of data.
- Share findings with program teams and collaborate to use findings to refine strategies, strengthen programs, and improve activities.
- Support other MERL activities as requested by the Senior Director, Technical Services
- Collaborate on or contribute inputs for costing studies (e.g., cost effectiveness, cost benefit) and workforce resource mapping.
- Provide capacity building for other Liberia staff for specific MERL skills as requested through mentorship and/or leading capacity building sessions
- Master’s degree in Public Health, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, or related field required
- Progressive years of experience in data management and analysis for research and evaluation of public health programs
- Experience in quantitative data analysis
- Experience analyzing data using advanced statistical software such as Stata or R
- Experience contributing to peer-reviewed publications as first author or co-author.
- Experience in building the capacity of team members
- Designing rigorous data collection tools
- Qualitative data analysis
- Managing research field teams
At Last Mile Health, we strive to reward our employees equitably and transparently. This means that we pay our employees based on a clear and consistent methodology and without regard to their identity or personal relationships. We have made this model fully transparent so that everyone has access to all information related to compensation. We hope this helps you better understand Last Mile Health’s values and commitments to our employees. We look forward to answering any questions you may have during the hiring process.
Before applying for this role, please take a moment to learn more about our approach to compensation and how compensation works in each of the countries where we operate. Please find the link to our compensation model and benefits overview below:
OVERVIEW OF LAST MILE HEALTH’S COMPENSATION MODEL
Compensation for this position:
The Band for this position: LBR-3
For Liberia, the range is $20,862 - $39,407 USD, depending upon experience doing an equivalent role. Please note that this compensation is subject to statutory taxes.
About Last Mile Health
Last Mile Health partners with governments to design, scale, strengthen, and sustain high-quality community health systems, which empower teams of community and frontline health workers to bring life-saving primary healthcare to the world’s most remote communities. LMH is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. For more information, visit www.lastmilehealth.org.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at LMH. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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