Metrics Technical Advisor position at PSI
PSI Research & Metrics (R&M) seeks a Technical Advisor for its Metrics program. PSI measures a variety of health metrics but relies on the disability adjusted life year (DALY) averted as its bottom-line measure of health impact. The Technical Advisor will develop a strategy for strengthening the metrics program and ensuring that the organization is able to use DALYs, costing and other tools for decision making. The Technical Advisor will work with modelers as well as internal and external experts to develop and refine models, improve data integrity, and supervise a limited number of staff. Successful candidates will be skilled at explaining metrics to technical as well as non-technical audiences and motivated by working in a dynamic, multi-disciplinary setting. This position is based in Washington, D.C., will require some international travel, and reports to the Director for Research & Metrics.
PSI Research & Metrics increases the ability of the organization to generate and use research that is relevant for programs and strategic for social marketing. For more information, please visit: psi.org/resources/research.
Responsibilities:
- Develop an organizational metrics strategy that ensures the use of DALYs and other metrics tools for decision making
- Oversee the development of new metrics initiatives, including integrating country- and intra-country variance into models, improving measures of targeting and the contribution of communications and behavior change interventions to health impact; integrating metrics with routine data collection and behavioral surveys, and creating automated systems for generating routine reports
- Improve PSI’s internal capacity to use and report DALYs. Capacity building will likely include algorithms to answer the most commonly asked questions, workshops, presentations, tool kits, and concept briefs and concept papers
- Lead efforts to use the DALY for evidence-based decision making at the policy level
- Supervise a limited number of R&M staff and consultants; manage key partnerships; mentor colleagues within the organization in metrics
- Work with R&M and other departments to create DALY models for products and interventions in PSI’s main health areas; produce in-depth analyses to inform decision making
- Integrate the current system for reporting DALYs with a new program management system (Lawson) and integrate cost effectiveness analyses with Lawson and other accounting records from different sources
- Participate in interdisciplinary working groups to develop metrics tools that are responsive to stakeholder needs
- Develop partnerships with external institutions and programs working in public health in developing countries to meet and share best practices in modeling
- Contribute to the fields of public health, social marketing, and metrics by authoring articles and publishing in peer-reviewed journals; presenting at conferences and meetings; and documenting lessons learned for internal and external stakeholders
- Provide other technical assistance as needed
Experience:
- PhD in mathematical modeling, economics, statistics, population studies, or a related field
- At least 7 years professional experience in the design, analysis and management of complex data
- Experience in mathematical modeling; experience in tropical disease modeling a plus
- Background in health economics
- Experience with relational databases
- Coding experience for implementation of quantitative methods
- Extensive knowledge of quantitative analysis programs (e.g., SPSS, Stata)
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with technicians and non-technicians along a variety of learning curves and needs
- Highly organized, comfortable working on multiple simultaneous projects; great at meeting deadlines
- An interest in managing other members of the R&M team
- Ability to travel 15-20% of the time internationally
- Excellent written, verbal and inter-personal communication skills
For complete job posting and to apply, please visit the PSI website.
