Overview

The Global Health Training, Advisory and Support Contract (GHTASC) delivers effective global health programming to advance the mission of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Global Health (GH) through institutional support and workforce development services from junior, mid-level, senior and expert advisory and administrative professionals.

Credence and its partner, the Public Health Institute (PHI), are both employers for GHTASC, and are seeking a Junior Program Assistant in USAID's Global Health Bureau under GHTASC.

Summary Statement:

The Public Health Institute (PHI) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting health, well-being, and quality of life for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world. As one of the largest and most comprehensive public health organizations in the nation, we are at the forefront of research and innovations to improve the efficacy of public health statewide, nationally, and internationally.

We are hiring for positions under the Global Health Training, Advisory, Support Contract (GHTASC) in support of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Global Health (GH). These roles deliver institutional support services in a wide range of technical areas at the junior, mid-, senior, and expert levels.

Position Summary:

The Senior Data Scientist will primarily support the Front Office of the Global Health Bureau at USAID as a PHI Institutional Support Contractor (ISC). The Bureau for Global Health (GH) provides essential technical leadership and support on global health issues to Agency leadership, USAID Missions, other USAID Bureaus and Independent Offices (B/IOs), and others in the global health community. The Office of the Assistant Administrator, commonly referred to as the GH “Front Office,” provides oversight for all Global Health programs, support to the field, research, legislative relations, and external affairs.

In this role, the selected candidate will provide leadership and technical expertise in conducting advanced analytics to better inform health programming through complex relationships with and between global health program and performance data and country-specific or survey data. The Senior Data Scientist will work closely with technical program experts at USAID Headquarters and Missions in the development and execution of data analyses and visualizations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical authority on analytical, statistical, and programming techniques necessary to collect, organize, analyze, and interpret unique and highly specialized data sets for decision-making in global health.
• Participate in discovery processes with GH leadership team and stakeholders to identify requirements, expected outcomes for new or existing initiatives, and the measurements of success.
• Serve as a technical lead in the formulation and management of data and analytics requirements, policies, procedures, and tools to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of quality USAID and health development data.
• Identify internal and external data sources, leverage new data collection processes and perform all phases of the systems development life cycle required in the design, development, and implementation of features enabling data access.
• Collaborate with data analysts/scientists and program experts across USAID and other US Government agencies to develop, streamline, and improve existing and emerging Health Strategic Information systems and processes for addressing complex problems.
• Participate in routine global health performance and leadership data review processes, providing data management support, analytic products, and other visualizations as needed.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Master’s and 10 years, Bachelor’s and 12 years, Associate’s and 14 years, or High School and 16 years of professional experience in Statistics, Math, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Epidemiology or Public Health.

Other Qualifications:

• Strong quantitative background and data wrangling skills; experience in i) data collection, management, cleaning, processing, and integration, ii) database management or extract, transform, load (ETL) processes, and iii) applied data analysis and visualization using statistical software or programming languages (R, Python, SQL/CQL, Stata, SAS, SPSS and/or MATLAB); package development experience a plus.
• Practical experience working within a data science ecosystem -- R RStudio (Tidyverse & geospatial related packages) Git preferred (or strong willingness to learn it).
• Practical experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, AWS Simple Storage Services (S3), Google Cloud Storage, and Google Drive.
• Ability to shape broad analytic requests, summarize appropriate data and produce compelling data visualization products using programming languages (R or Python), data visualization software (Tableau, PowerBI), or spreadsheet processing software (Excel, Google Sheets). Experience with Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape is a plus.
• Ability to Translate complex concepts, findings, limitations, and recommendations of improvements into easy-to-understand products. Closely tie findings and conclusions into the original problem statement, and team objectives to communicate to both experts and nontechnical audiences.
• S. citizenship or US permanent residence with the ability to obtain and maintain a facility access clearance is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced Tableau skill is a plus.

Competencies:

• Innovation: Employee takes initiative to propose new ideas/approaches and demonstrates ability to find new and better ways to accomplish work.
• Customer Service: Handles customer questions and complaints, communicates with customers, handles service problems politely and efficiently, always available for customers, follows procedure to solve customer problems, understands company products and services, maintains pleasant and professional image.
• Accountability: Takes ownership of work responsibilities and holds high standards. Keeps commitments and takes appropriate actions to ensure obligations are met. Pursues efficiency and effectiveness and adheres to Organization policies and procedures.
• Interpersonal Skills: Employee demonstrates ability to work in cooperation with others and communicate effectively with co-workers, supervisors, subordinates, clients, and other outside contacts.
• Continual Learning: Assesses and recognizes own strengths and weaknesses; pursues professional development that is aligned with organizational role, contribution, and goals. Proactively shares knowledge with others to foster learning across the Organization.