Living Goods (LG)
Global Research and Evidence Manager
Introduction
Living Goods (LG) is a leading
non-profit organization innovatively transforming the health of vulnerable
communities.
We support networks of trusted
community health workers (CHWs) to transform health outcomes for women and
children and work to advance system change by partnering with governments to
sustainably lead.
We focus on ensuring CHW's are
treated as essential health workers who should be digitized, equipped,
supervised, and compensated—so they can make the greatest impact—and harnessing
community-level data to transform health systems.
We focus on treating some of
the deadliest but most easily treatable deadly childhood diseases, supporting
women of reproductive age with pregnancy support and family planning, and
ensuring every child is fully vaccinated.
At the end of 2020, Living
Goods was supporting more than 11,000 CHWs in Kenya and Uganda to deliver care
to more than 8.5 million people.
Living Goods’ new strategic
plan focuses on the next frontier of impact: enabling government partners to
improve health outcomes nationally, by ensuring CHWs can reach their full
potential.
Building on our unique
experience supporting more than 12,000 CHWs to deliver quality health care to
more than 9 million people, this plan focuses on ensuring high-quality,
digitally-enabled community health care can be professionalized and scaled more
sustainably, in more countries—saving and improving more lives.
Your Charge
Living Goods is looking for an
experienced researcher to lead research projects from end to end across the
organization. This position reports to the Director of Performance, Evidence
and Insights and is a part of the Global Programs Team, working cross
functionally with our country programs and MEL teams to build evidence and
insights to drive the organization’s impact and advocacy goals.
Living Goods research portfolio
includes operations research, process evaluations, and impact evaluations, and
leverages vast amounts of program monitoring data as well as externally
collected data.
You are a strong project
manager and a research technical expert, fluent across quantitative and
qualitative methods and approaches. You will roll up your sleeves to design,
conduct, analyze and package up research for advocacy.
You will also identify,
contract and manage high quality external Principal Investigators and research
partners to collaborate and deliver. And you will train, mentor and support
colleagues across the organization in research methods and management.
You will develop evaluation
strategies and research approaches to answer priority questions associated with
Living Goods’ learning agenda, striking the balance of impact, feasibility,
cost and rigor. You will also contribute to business development proposals, and
you will strategically package up key evidence, learning and insights for
advocacy.
You have deep research
technical experience and have a well-developed network of research colleagues
and collaborators. You are intellectually curious, learning oriented and
collaborative.
You are motivated to produce
high-quality research, evidence and insights that will drive impact deepening
and advocacy. You enjoy being challenged and delivering excellence to
colleagues and partners.
Research Project Management
Manage priority internal and external research
projects from end to end including developing the evaluation strategy, drafting
RFPs, identifying and contracting research partners (where appropriate),
project management and oversight, data analysis report writing, dissemination,
and ensuring translation of evidence and insights for program improvement and
advocacy.
Provide technical guidance/management to other LG
and partner staff to adhere to research systems/processes/protocols to ensure
high-quality research design, implementation, and analysis.
Conduct analysis of internal program data and
external evaluation data to answer priority learning questions or develop key
evidence and insights for advocacy.
External Research Partnerships & Business
Development
Expand and deepen strategic global research
partnerships
Identify Principal Investigators and high-quality
research partners for collaboration on specific projects.
Package up key evidence, learning and insight to
share externally for advocacy, thought leadership and business development.
Represent the organization externally with
government partners, academia, funders
Lead the technical input on evaluation and research
sections of funding proposals.
Partner with the business development team to
identify specific opportunities for research funding aligned with the strategy.
Participate in relevant external coalitions and
technical working groups
Knowledge Pieces and Publications
Publish key research, analysis, evidence and
insights in peer-reviewed journals.
Write knowledge pieces including blogs, policy
briefs, and other articles to drive LG thought leadership, fundraising and
advocacy goals.
Professional development & capacity-building
Provide technical mentorship and capacity building
across staff in research design, management and dissemination.
Share relevant literature and research with team to
enable and encourage evidence-informed decision making.
Administrative/Other
Contribute to Global Program Team and country-level
research strategy, annual planning and budgeting.
Lead or participate in internal and external
steering committees and technical working groups as assigned and appropriate.
Minimum Qualifications
Advanced degree in public health, epidemiology,
biostatistics, health economics, health systems strengthening, health policy
with quantitative research specialization
Demonstrated research technical experience with 7-9
years of total work experience with ideally 1-3 years at managerial level
Skills and Competencies:
Excellent research & analytical technical
expertise including in Epidemiology, bio-statistics, health economics, health
systems research, quantitative & qualitative methods, survey design and
management, data management,
Experience managing multiple research projects from
end to end with a high degree of quality and excellence.
Strategic thinking and analysis, ability to
synthesize and interpret evidence and data into relevant, strategic
recommendations
Track record of packing up evidence and insights
into high quality knowledge and learning outputs, policy briefs, peer-reviewed
publications etc.
Ability to foster research collaboration internally
and externally across an established personal network of research colleagues.
Experience in team management, technical capacity
building and mentorship.
Excellent written, verbal and inter-personal
communication skills. Demonstrated ability to communicate and engage
effectively with a range of stakeholders including team members, external
partners, funders and government partners.
Strong interpersonal skills including cultural
sensitivity. Experience working cross-functionally across teams
To Apply:
Applicants who meet the
requirements stated above should send their updated CV and cover letter
(indicating why you feel you would be a good fit) with a day –time Telephone
number to the email address: jobs1@hcsaffiliatesgroup.com with Global Research
& Evidence Manager on the Subject line.
Only shortlisted candidates
will be contacted.