Senior Program Officer - Survey Coordinator (Seconded to Global Financing Facility)
Company: Results for Development
Location: Washington
Posted on: April 24, 2024
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Job Description:
Results for Development (R4D) is a leading non-profit global
development partner. We collaborate with change agents around the
world - government officials, civil society leaders and social
innovators - to create strong systems that support healthy,
educated people. We help our partners move from knowing their goal
to knowing how to reach it. We combine global expertise in health,
education and nutrition with analytic rigor, practical support for
decision-making and implementation and access to peer
problem-solving networks. Together with our partners, we build
self-sustaining systems that serve everyone and deliver lasting
results. Then we share what we learn so others can achieve results
for development, too.
We have a unique and vibrant culture at R4D. Diversity, equity and
inclusion are at the heart of our work environment and help advance
our mission. Diversity-of ideas, identities, perspectives and
backgrounds-is vital to who we are and what we do. We seek people
who embrace these values and will help reinforce them. Our work
culture is collaborative, creative and entrepreneurial. We operate
based on trust and respect. Teams across the organization
frequently collaborate on programmatic work and support each other
in continuously building a better R4D.
BackgroundThe Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and
Adolescents (GFF) is a multi-stakeholder global partnership housed
at the World Bank that is committed to ensuring all women, children
and adolescents can survive and thrive. Launched in July 2015, the
GFF supports 36 low and lower-middle income countries with
catalytic financing and technical assistance to develop and
implement prioritized national health plans to scale up access to
affordable, quality care for women, children, and adolescents. The
GFF also works with countries to maximize the use of domestic
financing and external support for better, more sustainable health
results. The GFF is squarely focused on prioritizing and scaling up
evidence-driven investments to improve reproductive, maternal,
newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N)
through targeted strengthening of primary health care systems - to
save lives and as a critical first step toward accelerating
progress on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). In support of these goals, the GFF
supports country-led efforts to improve the timely use of data for
decision-making, ultimately leading to stronger primary healthcare
(PHC) systems and better reproductive, maternal, newborn, child,
and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) outcomes. This set
of initiatives and technical support is referred to as Frequent
Assessments and System Tools for Resilience (). Rapid-cycle
monitoring approaches provide timely, rigorous, and high-priority
data that responds to each country's specific priorities and data
use needs. Four technical approaches are used - analysis of routine
health management information systems (HMIS) and RMNCAH-N data, (2)
rapid-cycle health facility phone surveys, (3) high-frequency
household surveys, conducted in partnership with the World Bank's
Living Standards Measurement Study, and (4) rapid qualitative
follow-ups/implementation research. Employing a collaborative and
country-led approach, these analyses are further reinforced by
learning and capacity enhancing activities to use the data for
practical purposes. All approaches are customized to the specific
country context and aim to support country initiatives. You can
find more details about the GFF's rapid-cycle analytics and data
use initiative here: . Partnership with Results for Development
Institute (R4D) to support FASTR's scale-upIn 2023, the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation made a strategic investment in the GFF's
rapid-cycle analytics and data use FASTR initiative via a
partnership with Results for Development Institute (R4D). Support
from R4D through this investment will accelerate the GFF's FASTR
scaling efforts through four interrelated components:a) Embedded
support to the GFF secretariatb) Deepening of the provision of
direct support processes through the provision of direct support to
facilitate the data-to-action process at sub-national level c)
Augment capacity to apply FASTR approach to commodities tracking.
d) Strengthening learning across global institutions and countries
to enable the "scaling -out" of rapid cycle approaches. This
position represents component (a) of this partnership: embedded
support to the GFF secretariat.
This position is based in Washington DC, but flexibilities may be
extended upon discussion and reports to the (Senior) Director.
Position Summary:A survey coordinator will be seconded with GFF by
R4D, as a part of R4D's support to the GFF to scale its FASTR
rapid-cycle analytics and data use initiative. The survey expert
will work within the existing GFF country engagement model to
support the GFF's growing portfolio of health surveys in GFF
partner countries and will play a critical role in the operational
scaling of these approaches across countries and toolsets. More
specifically, through this secondment program, this position will
provide operational leadership, oversight, and coordination on
FASTR's phone survey portfolio, which includes health facility
surveys, household surveys, and patient exit interviews. This will
include (1) leadership on phone survey management and operations,
(2) leading the scale-up and operationalization of GFF-supported
surveys across multiple countries in Africa and Asia, (3) technical
management and oversight on survey administration to a growing team
supporting survey data collection and analysis across the GFF
Secretariat, countries, and other partners, and 4) coordinate
validation studies, linkages with in-person surveys, and
triangulation of data from phone surveys with other data sources.
The successful candidate will:(i) Play an overarching project
management and operational role across FASTR's survey approaches
(including health facility phone surveys, household phone surveys,
patient exit interviews, and other survey activities as requested
by countries) to ensure high-quality implementation of activities.
(ii) Provide technical assistance on survey implementation, data
collection, and quality assurance to government health agencies,
country partners, survey firms, and in-country consultants.(iii)
Lead the scale up and refinement of the GFF's existing phone survey
tools and approaches and codify them into manuals, operational
guidance, capacity building materials, and other documents for
wider use. (iv) Represent the FASTR portfolio internally and
externally to relevant partners, especially focused on survey
coordination and operations.
Duties and accountabilities
Qualifications:Requirements
Keywords: Results for Development, Silver Spring , Senior Program Officer - Survey Coordinator (Seconded to Global Financing Facility), Other , Washington, Maryland
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