The Office of Policy, Programs and Planning (GH/P3) has primary responsibility for the Global Health Bureau’s strategic planning, budgeting, financial management, procurement, and monitoring and evaluation functions. The Office supports the Bureau’s technical offices in promoting program integration and coordination, aimed at achieving global health objectives efficiently and effectively. P3 leads the Bureau in program planning and performance monitoring, facilitates periodic data collection, conducts analyses and provides written and visual inputs for reports and presentations. The Office provides analyses for country and GH planning and portfolio reviews and supports planning efforts for the GH Bureau and GH technical offices. Within P3, the Strategy, Analysis, Evaluation and Outreach (SAEO) Division serves as the primary GH resource for USAID monitoring, evaluation and data related policies and practices. The Division oversees implementation of the Bureau monitoring and evaluation plans and analyzes and disseminates findings, conclusions, recommendations and best practices. The Division also provides policy guidance and leadership to GH staff in project design, procurement planning, environmental compliance, and digital health initiatives.

KEY DUTIES:

• Facilitates the effective implementation of Bureau and Agency policy requirements such as Environmental Analyses and Monitoring and Evaluation by assisting GH staff in understanding processes and templates and tracking the completion and clearance of required documents.
• Supports GH programs in evaluation activities, data collection and analyses as required.
• Collects, analyzes, and organizes program data, reports, and files. Assists with the development, improvement, and management of effective program and data tracking systems.
• Analyze, visually represent and disseminate global health data to facilitate decision making for USAID leadership. Develop communication materials for internal use and external publication.
• Participates in USAID data related communities of practice, and working collaboratively with USAID’s global health subject matter experts, engages stakeholders in the development and prioritization of data analyses.
• Coordinates and supports efforts to build USAID’s in-house capacity to improve global health monitoring, evaluation and data analytics in the Bureau and field missions.
• Participates in ongoing and ad hoc cross-bureau analytical teams as needed.
• Attends meetings, workshops, and conferences, and formulates recommendations for the Division in response to these developments.
• Assists in recruitment, hiring and onboarding of new Division staff and interns.
• Provides administrative support to the Division Chief.

• Master’s degree and 1 year, Bachelor’s and 3 years, Associate’s and 5 years, or High School and 7 years of professional experience.
• Ability to conduct statistical analysis using advanced functions of Excel, familiarity with statistical and visualization packages such as Tableau, Stata and R preferred.
• Excellent Microsoft and Google Office Suite skills and the ability to work in Huddle and other virtual collaboration environments.
• Proven ability to learn new databases, applications and other software programs as needed.
• Excellent writing skills in English, as well as strong oral and written communications skills.
• The ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• The ability to be assertive in managing processes and deadlines, while building constructive and effective relationships with colleagues from a wide variety of backgrounds.
• US citizenship or US permanent residency and ability to obtain and maintain Facility Access.

• 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.