Company Details
Village Reach
The Data Analytics Director & Team Lead will lead the Data Analytics Technical Team, overseeing all team activities and ensuring alignment with the organization’s vision and objectives. They will lead the strategic build-up of VillageReach’s Data Analytics portfolio.
Working Days
- Monday9AM - 5PM
- Tuesday9AM - 5PM
- Wednesday9AM - 5PM
- Thursday9AM - 5PM
- Friday9AM - 5PM
- Saturday9AM - 5PM
- SundayClose
About Company
Description
Organizational Leadership (20%)
- Set the vision and define the strategy for the Data Analytics Technical Team.
- Strengthen the culture of data use within VillageReach and promote data-driven decision-making among key external government, technical, and funder partners.
- Develop and implement VillageReach's people-centered healthcare strategy and focus on the design of data systems to increase feedback from under-reach communities and the use of that feedback by governments and partners.
- Consult with organizational and programmatic leadership to understand data analytics problems and goals and define an organization-wide Data Analytics strategy.
- Be an external advocate of the importance of data use in decision-making in public health. Speak externally and publish your point of view on this topic.
- Establish, manage, and develop internal indicators for a Data Analytics Community of Practice to share and build knowledge across VillageReach.
- Represent the Data Analytics Team on the VillageReach Immunization Advisory Group, and lead proposals to use data for identifying and reaching zero-dose and under-immunized communities.
Team Management (25%)
- Mentor and provide career development, including looking for program opportunities that allow staff to build skills or pursue areas of interest.
- Maintain the Data Analytics Skills Assessment and Program Data Analytics Maturity Assessment for use with the Data Analytics team, program teams, and key government stakeholders.
- Oversee recruitment, interviewing, compensation, orientation, training, professional development, performance improvement, and evaluation of the team.
- Create a working environment that supports the team's ongoing professional growth and development.
Technical Quality and Standards (30%)
- Demonstrate mastery of the latest data analytics tools, techniques, and concepts, and guide the application of these tools and techniques to deliver data solutions outputs on tight timelines.
- Advancing the efficiency of VillageReach programs by developing and implementing data science, digital health, and data analytics solutions.
- Ensure that VillageReach Data Analytics activities are informed by the best available evidence and good practice, and effectively designed, implemented, and evaluated.
- Work closely with the Impact Team and the Digital Solutions team to ensure that M&E collected data is relevant for both donor and government dashboard needs as well as for VillageReach’s own internal analytics
- Oversee development of tools, methods, and standards that support and advance VillageReach’s technical data analytics capabilities.
- Develop VillageReach IP and thought leadership within Data Analytics.
- Lead team in mining Villagereach datasets to identify insights into ways to improve current analytical practices and identify additional innovations.
- Collaborate with the appropriate teams to initiate, guide, and operationalize innovative data solutions (including real-time solutions) that involve advanced analytics and digital health.
Building Relationships & Business Development (25%)
- Understand potential business gaps, and translate them into business opportunities.
- Build a pipeline of new business through active relationship development/management, proposal efforts, and thought leadership efforts
- Actively engage with target donors/partners and industry experts. Develop strategic relationships with key technical counterparts in the Data Analytics landscape.
- Contribute to business development efforts and ensure country teams receive adequate technical support from the Data Analytics GTT for proposal writing and fundraising as relevant
- Represent VillageReach on the Gavi Immunization Supply Chain Steering Committee M&E group and IA2030 data-use group
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