SPO, Measurement Innovations & Insights, MNCNH

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

The Gender Equality division’s mission is to ensure women and girls in Africa and South Asia can enjoy good health, make their own choices, earn their own money, and be leaders in their societies. When women and girls have an equal chance to thrive and lead, everyone benefits. We know that women and girls are not a monolith. A woman’s experience and the barriers she faces are different depending on factors like where she lives, how old she is, and how much money her family has—alongside other factors including her race, caste, and education level. We seek to address these compounding barriers through deep partnership with our grantees. As a philanthropy, our role is to listen to and learn from these experts. We take risks in new areas, prove concepts, and bring these ideas to governments, partner organizations, and private sector companies to scale. The Gender Equality Division builds off our existing strengths as a foundation in areas like global health and data, partnering closely with all our global divisions.
The Maternal, Newborn, Child Nutrition & Health (MNCNH) team is responsible for an end-to-end approach focused on product discovery, development, introduction, and scale of novel and existing high impact products for women, adolescent girls, and children in low-resource settings. Our approach targets underlying biological vulnerability and seeks to intervene as early as possible in the life course. We fund development on a core set of products that range in type (including drugs, foods, microbes, risk algorithms, and devices), technical risk (from novel concepts to product substitutions), and development phase (from early discovery to late-stage efficacy testing and implementation research). We also support launch and introduction planning of a subset of our core products that are further in the development process to accelerate country adoption and uptake in the global architecture and drive impact at scale. These products target pregnancy risk, maternal undernutrition, prematurity, neonatal encephalopathy, child wasting, child neurodevelopment and maternal morbidity. Our team is multidisciplinary and includes physician scientists with backgrounds in obstetrics and pediatrics, perinatal epidemiologists, and professionals in neurodevelopment, nutrition research, engineering, global health, strategy development and industry-experienced market and commercialization experts. We emphasize in-country partnership to integrate the local context into research and development.
Our culture shapes our choices about what we do and how we do it. We believe that energized people, working well together, motivated by great leadership in an inclusive environment can do extraordinary things. We expect foundation employees to embody our four agreements intentionally and consistently; show respect, offer trust, be transparent, and create energy.

Application deadline: Friday, November 8 (11:59 PM PDT)

Your Role

The Senior Program Officer (SPO), Measurement Innovation & Insights (MII) will lead the MNCNH team’s downstream measurement strategy centered on monitoring, evaluation, and learning around our MNCNH product introduction efforts. The role will require strategy conceptualization, operationalization, and management of a portfolio of investments aimed at (i) monitoring changes in the availability and costs of MNCNH products; (ii) tracking progress towards uptake of high-impact MNCNH products, including both existing and emerging novel products, across the setting of antenatal care, intrapartum care, and newborn care; and (iii) assessing impact of product uptake on maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality. To achieve these aims, the SPO MII will leverage a range of data sources from priority geographies, spanning market intelligence, funded surveillance platforms, in-country routine information systems, and programmatic evaluations.

This role will require methodological rigor and innovation, as well as thoughtful collaboration with in-country partners, both external and internal to the foundation. The SPO MII will have prior experience in the design, collection, and analysis of primary monitoring and evaluation data to support iterative learning and generation of data-led insights to inform our strategic approach to accelerate impact.

What You Will Do

• Lead the design and execution of the MNCNH downstream measurement portfolio, including development and management of investments to evaluate programmatic processes, health outcomes, and impact metrics in priority geographies.

• Innovate methodology to strengthen measurement approaches and produce high-quality, low-cost, rapid and iterative monitoring and evaluation data to feed into foundation strategy and improve policy and programmatic decisions.

• Engage with in-house data analysts and modelers to analyze and interpret incoming data and extract data-led insights that inform our product introduction strategy.

• Collaborate with grantees to craft iterative analysis plans and map incoming data to decision points.

• Provide cross-portfolio support on the optimal design of outcome-focused investments and implementation of practical and rigorous monitoring and evaluation strategies for downstream-focused bodies of work.

• Engage with a wide range of stakeholders within and external to the foundation, spanning country offices, local ministries of health, and local measurement partners.

• Identify synergies and areas of collaboration with external partners and other stakeholders working in data, analytics, and across the MNCNH measurement ecosystem.

Core Knowledge and Skills

• PhD in statistics, epidemiology, or an applied measurement discipline with demonstrated skills and 10+ years of technical experience in monitoring and evaluation in the Development, Social Sciences, or Public Health field.

• Demonstrated high level of technical proficiency and methodological rigor, including in emerging measurement approaches.

• Field experience, including design of measurement tools and implementation of monitoring and evaluation efforts in LMIC settings.

• In-depth knowledge of statistical methods, formative, summative, developmental, and additive evaluation designs, nuanced approach with qualitative and quantitative methodologies, data collection and management

• Ability to critically design MLE tools, surveys, surveillance systems, and evaluations.

• Experience in a dynamic environment with proven ability to juggle multiple and competing demands and establish priorities, while providing continual attention to detail in proofing materials, tracking projects, and grants.

• Understanding of intervention impact modeling and the types of data needed to accurately parametrize such models.

• Understanding of the nuances and pros and cons of different types of data systems and tools.

• Curious and proactive self-learner seeking to understand and engage with the complex political economy of data, analytics, and measurement, and with complex data from multiple sources.

• Track record of working on large scale, complex health programs across multiple geographies; working in localized settings and resource constrained environments

• Self-critical and humble; reflective, immersive in understanding of contexts and ability to think out of the box.

• Comfortable in a wide range of cultural, geographic, and operational situations, demonstrating culturally sensitive behavior with a diverse range of people.

• Ability to travel up to 40% domestically and internationally.

The salary range for this role is $166,300 to $249,500 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $181,200 to $271,800 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hire salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

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Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.