Global Health Program Analyst (Private Sector)
Do you believe that everyone deserves access to affordable, quality healthcare? Are you driven by creativity, bold ideas, and disruptive innovation? Are you inspired by exceptionally talented, diverse, impact-oriented colleagues? Do you thrive in a dynamic, high-growth, fast-paced environment? Most importantly, are you fed-up with the status quo of foreign assistance in the health sector? Then consider a job with ThinkWell.
The Program Analyst reports to a Program Manager, Director or Managing Director and provides technical assistance, analytical and operational support across a range of ThinkWell in-country public or private sector projects. The Analyst brings strong quantitative skills and research capacity (typically in health economics and financing) as well as a solid understanding of the design, implementation and evaluation of health financing policy reform. The Analyst typically serves as an individual contributor on a project team.
What You'll Do:
Project Analysis and Implementation
- Support ministries of health and finance on development of national health financing strategies, resource mobilization strategies, budget planning, preparation and execution;
- Support capacity strengthening of country stakeholders to increase autonomy for planning, budgeting and public financial management;
- Support the design and implementation of health financing mechanisms such as health insurance and performance-based financing;
- Produce high quality written reports and presentations, including technical documents, project status reports, policy briefs, and publications for conferences and journals;
- Create graphics and visualizations of quantitative and qualitative data;
- Contribute to business development, including desk research, technical input, and proposal and concept note writing;
Research
- Provide qualitative and quantitative data analysis across a range of subjects;
- Lead analyses on health expenditure and resource allocation, including out-of-pocket spending, financial forecasting, benefit incidence analysis, and cost-effectiveness;
- Summarize and synthesize research findings, present results to partners and clients;
- Draft research protocols, develop and validate data collection instruments such as surveys and semi-structured interview questionnaires;
- Collect and clean data from country research studies;
- Support systematic literature review processes, source data and information on relevant technical and policy issues and effectively summarize findings.
Communications
- Draft or revise sections of donor reports and coordinate team member input;
- Occasionally represent ThinkWell with external partners, donors or stakeholders at meetings and events;
- Seek opportunities to leverage project work for continued contributions to immunization financing, strategic purchasing and related evaluation and learning at global and country levels
- Effectively communicate technical information to a variety of audiences;
- Develop and communicate compelling stories from compiled data and findings
Project Administration and Operations
- Assist with a range of project administrative and operational responsibilities, including staff recruitment and training, communications, organizing meetings and workshops, coordinating travel, and drafting donor correspondence
We Are:
ThinkWell core values are our fundamental organizational guiding principles. They define our corporate culture, influence our behavior at work and help us achieve our mission. Our values are:
Think big
Influence the conversation
Empower others
Be exceptional
Always question
Relate authentically
Evolve by learning
You Are:
ThinkWell core competencies are foundational skills and behaviors that align with our values and are expected of all employees.
- An entrepreneurial, results-oriented ‘do-er’ with a willingness to take risk, think big and challenge conventional wisdom.
- A change maker who reaches independent judgement with an open mind, influences the conversation, and seeks innovation.
- Able to help create an empowering environment in which everyone feels free to take initiative, be accountable and fail intelligently (learn from mistakes)
- A collaborative colleague who engages constructively with people from different cultures, orientations, and perspectives and maintains positive relations in a virtual world.
- Principally motivated by a growth mindset, meaning the pursuit of knowledge, experience, and self-improvement. You always question and continuously learn.
- Authentic, honest, direct, self-aware and open to giving and receiving feedback.
Requirements
- BA/BS and 5+ years experience or graduate degree and 3+ years experience;
- Relevant work experience in a management consulting firm, bilateral or multilateral development agency, and/or international NGO, preferably with some experience managing projects in low- or middle-income countries;
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint required; proficiency in statistical analysis packages (e.g. STATA) preferred;
- Exceptional analytical, research and problem solving capabilities;
- A thoughtful systems thinker with grounded, pragmatic understanding of the complexities of our work;
- Tech savvy and skilled at visual display of data;
- Demonstrated poise and professionalism in engaging with external partners, donors, and stakeholders;
- Full English fluency, second language a plus;
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to relate respectfully with staff at all levels, ages, genders, nationalities and orientations as well as across work areas;
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 25%.