Job title: Reproductive Health Research Analyst
Department: FP/RH
Based in Washington, D.C.
Up to 25%** international travel
Reports to the **Reproductive Health Research Advisor
Who we are
We’re Population Services International (PSI), the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. We work to make it easier for people in the developing world to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire by marketing affordable products and services that range from mosquito nets to contraceptives to HIV testing.
There are over 9,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. It’s a diverse group of entrepreneurs and professionals with an unusually wide range of backgrounds – from the medical industry to the music business – all with unique skills we bring to the job.
Join us!
PSI’s Family Planning (FP) & Reproductive Health (RH) Department focuses on the launch & scale-up of high quality FP/RH services, built on a strong base of FP programming and integrated with other health areas where appropriate to achieve maximum health impact. We protect our clients’ sexual & reproductive health rights by ensuring informed choice, voluntarism, client confidentiality & privacy, client safety and continuity of care, and safe abortion.
We are looking for a Reproductive Health Research Analyst to assist the Reproductive Health Research Advisor in the analysis of PSI’s family planning and reproductive health research. The Reproductive Health Research Analyst loves data – cleaning, analyzing, managing, organizing, presenting and disseminating – and has a penchant and mad skills for designing quantitative studies. The Reproductive Health Research Analyst also loves the power of data and enjoys helping others learn how to use data, particularly for decision–making, and building the skills of headquarters staff and in-country teams.
Sound like you? Read on.
Your contribution
You will be responsible for the creating analysis plans, data management, cleaning, analysis, and dissemination of PSI’s reproductive health research activities. You will:
Provide Statistical Design Guidance
- Provide guidance and conduct quantitative analyses on data emerging from interventions in the following areas: modern contraceptive use, maternal health, reproductive health integrated service delivery, social franchising, barriers to service provision, abortion and post-abortion care;
- Work with New Business Development and the FP/RH technical team to provide evidence, data and research findings for fundraising efforts in reproductive health;
- Provide reproductive health analysis expertise to country-level staff conducting family planning research;
- Collaborate with internal/external PSI initiatives around indicator standardization and metrics development ;
Quantitative Design, Analysis & Dissemination
- Collaborate with Reproductive Health Research Advisor to provide statistical inputs for reproductive health research, including sample size calculations, analysis plans, data cleaning and quality management, and analysis ;
- Provide technical input into new and existing reproductive health study designs. Pilot new research methods and standardize analytic strategies;
- Collaborate with PSI evidence teams to develop metrics around social franchising, equity, clinical quality outputs, and family planning related indicators;
- Improve reproductive health research capacity at country level, by creating and supporting research analysis trainings, standardizing syntax, creating toolkits;
- Conduct secondary data analyses on existing PSI data from core-funded research, such as SIFPO and the Women’s Health Project;
- Collaborate with Reproductive Health Research Advisor on writing and disseminating research reports, peer-reviewed manuscripts, and other technical briefs;
- Collaborate with Reproductive Health Research Advisor to disseminate PSI research findings at international conferences and meetings and coordinate conference abstracts to highlight research at country, regional and organizational levels;
- Coordinate with Regional Researchers and Regional M&E advisors.
Support Data to Decision-Making Initiative
- Collaborate with Reproductive Health Research Advisor to support country and core-funded data analysis to support the Data to Decision-Making initiatives
- Design and produce data visualizations to support programmatic decision-making and sharing of best practices
What are we looking for?
The basics
- You have a master’s degree and 3+ years of professional experience in biostatistics, epidemiology, econometrics, or other related field.
- Extensive knowledge of statistical methodologies for quantitative research including analysis of survey data, longitudinal data, multi-level models, case-control studies, etc.
- Extensive knowledge of statistical analysis software (Stata, R, SPSS, or SAS); preference for individuals with proficiency in Stata
- Demonstrated experience in cleaning and analyzing complex quantitative data
- Experiencing field research studies in low-resource settings, including supervision of data collectors and data quality checks a plus
- You have experience in and are passionate about building research and data analysis capacity.
- You are fluent in English; preference for individuals who also speak French or Spanish.
- You have extensive familiarity with monitoring and evaluation systems and tools, including logframes.
- Demonstrated attention to detail
- Excellent written, verbal and inter-personal communication skills required. Must be highly organized with thorough follow-through
- References will be required.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States. PSI will not consider work visa sponsorship for this position.
What would get us excited?
International Field Experience. You have field experience in conducting family planning and reproductive health related research and measurement activities
Technical Expertise: You have specific experience designing, analyzing, and presenting reproductive health research, especially safe abortion related projects.
Visual. You are skilled in data visualizations to be able to communicate evidence to non-technical audiences
Creativity. You’re able to tackle questions and problems from a different angle and are flexible in your approach.
A Mentor. You have experience in capacity building or creating research guidance for data analysis.
STATUS
PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.
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