Senior Technical Advisor, Data Use and Decision Science

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $120k - $135k / year

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Resolve To Save Lives

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 Grant on 2022-07

Healthcare Insurance • Non-profit • Social Impact

Resolve to Save Lives is an organization dedicated to improving global health by focusing on two core areas: cardiovascular health and epidemic prevention. The mission of the organization is to prevent 100 million deaths from cardiovascular disease and make the world safer from epidemics. They work with governments and partners across the globe to co-create, advocate for, and scale activities to control high blood pressure, reduce dietary salt intake, eliminate trans fats, and strengthen health security systems. The organization provides resources, guidance, and advocacy tools for large-scale heart health programs and epidemic prevention.

📋 Description

• Focuses on bridging the gap between complex epidemiological and contextual data and strategic public health action. • Accompany in-country counterparts to generate stronger analytics and information products to support decision-making, integrating disease surveillance data with other contextual data. • Contribute to the facilitation of two flagship programs - Epidemic Intelligence training curriculum, and a co-design workshop - to build national counterparts' capacity for epidemic intelligence and systems thinking. • Collaborates with HQ-based staff and in-country embedded teams on data analytics, innovations and delivery. Responsibilities include: • Support the implementation of epidemic intelligence activities that inform decision-making, including development of innovative data use products and implementation of automated production pipelines. • Collaborate closely with in-country counterparts and across teams to map existing systems, data, and decision-making needs. • Provide hands-on technical accompaniment, capacity building, and knowledge transfer, including providing hands-on technical mentorship that develops local talent. • Training in-country embedded teams on the use of digital tools, such as DHIS2, Emergency Management Systems (EMS), R and R markdown for data management, analytics, GIS, and data product generation. • Work with a multidisciplinary team to develop a country workplan and budget for Collaborative Surveillance, coordinate the implementation, and generate strategic reports for leadership and donors. • Collaborate with global (e.g., WHO, US CDC, UNICEF) and country-level partners to streamline and align Collaborative Surveillance initiatives. • Provide technical oversight and methodologies to evaluate the impact of the Collaborative Surveillance initiatives. • Lead consultative work to investigate and develop use cases for surveillance innovations. • Collaborate with multidisciplinary epidemic intelligence team to pioneer innovations in data use for decision-making.

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree or higher in a relevant field (e.g., public health, epidemiology, informatics, statistics). PhD in a relevant field is a plus. • At least 5 years of experience in infectious disease surveillance and analytics, public health emergency management, or equivalent experience • Demonstrated experience designing, producing, and implementing end-to-end public health information products (e.g., epidemiological bulletins, outbreak situation reports) with the ability to translate complex data into decision-ready outputs and ensure sustainable handover through clear documentation and SOPs • Demonstrated experience in designing and delivering comprehensive capacity-building training programs for public health professionals, bridging technical skills with actionable, real-world decision-making. • Proven ability to technically accompany and mentor multidisciplinary in-country teams, building their capacity to lead data use projects, applying systems thinking and design thinking approach, with a strong emphasis on progressive knowledge transfer and developing local ownership of analytical workflows. • Strong analytical and decision-making capabilities for strategy and execution, including in areas of high complexity and ambiguity. • Proficiency in R and R Markdown/Quarto for data management, analysis, and automated information product generation; familiarity with DHIS2 is an advantage • Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills for engaging and influencing non-governmental partners, civil society organizations, donors, and multilateral agencies • Ability to thrive in a collaborative and highly matrixed environment with experience serving many different internal and external stakeholders and demonstrating inclusiveness and active listening skills • Comfort operating in a remote and distributed work environment, with the ability to provide high-quality technical accompaniment through virtual channels • Fluency in English is required; Proficiency in French or Portuguese is highly desirable. • Able to work remotely and convene in-person occasionally for team meetings • Ability and willingness to travel up to 30%

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance for you and your dependents • Contributions toward retirement • Paid annual leave and sick leave, in addition to public holidays • Two paid, week-long organization-wide breaks at mid-year and end-of-year • Professional development and home office setup benefits • Up-to-date computer equipment