Impact & Learning Manager Global Health Corps

Global Health Corps (GHC) mobilizes a global community of emerging leaders to build the movement for health equity. GHC believes young leaders with dierse backgrounds and  a  deep  commitment to  collaboration, innovation, and social justice are going to revolutionize how the world tackles its toughest health challenges.

Through a competitive recruitment process, we identify daring and innovative university graduates and early- to mid-career professionals from around the world and pair them with  amazing  partner  organizations  and government agencies in the US, East Africa, and Southern Africa. Our fellows spend a year in their placement  devoting their unstoppable energy to making the world a healthier place for all people, everywhere.

Fellows convene throughout the year for additional training, community building, leadership development, and mentorship in order to become audacious, resilient, and highly-networked changemakers. Since its founding in 2009, GHC has supported over 1000 fellows working at various levels of the health system, across issue areas and across continents.

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The Impact and Learning Manager is a well-organized, hard-working individual in our small, cross-country entrepreneurial team. The ideal candidate thrives in an informal, fast-paced, start-up environment and is excited to build out impact monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning at GHC. The ideal candidate:

Is a systems thinker to their core – able to design systems and think outside the box

Gets excited by solving problems

Is a self-starter

Enjoys working collaboratively in a team and helping teammates to utilize data to create impact

Demonstrates excellent attention to detail

The Impact and Learning Manager reports to the Director of Community Impact filling a pivotal role in a small, dynamic team spread across five countries. Because innovative thinking is valued, there will be many opportunities to grow and experiment. This role will be instrumental in the development of internal monitoring and evaluation systems that deliver useful data and feedback to teams across GHC and lead research on leadership development programs in health to share with the larger community. This position requires exceptional passion for our work, experience with managing monitoring and evaluation systems, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic work environment.

Specific responsibilities include:

• • Program Impact and Team Learning
  • Develop partnerships with organizations and experts to support, train, and advise our community in impact areas aligned with our Theory of Impact
  • Develop partnerships with external researchers to demonstrate GHC’s impact in its countries of operation and share evidence of GHC’s model with the scientific community
  • Support GHC program staff to examine findings, and incorporate insights as a part of iterative program planning
  • Work with GHC colleagues to share and promote the organization’s outcomes and impact in the public domain
  • Identify areas of organizational improvement and growth for GHC based on learnings from assorted evaluation tools and the organization’s strategic plan; work across all teams at GHC to implement operational changes as needed
  • Systems Design, Implementation, and Management
  • Oversee and manage GHC’s measurement system, ensuring the implementation of measurement tools and systems in line with the organization’s Theory of Impact
  • Design methods and processes for setting programmatic targets for metrics aligned with GHC’s Theory of Impact
  • Develop systems and standard operating procedures to collect and track GHC’s impact on fellowship alumni’s leadership development and career trajectories
  • Support program staff to design assessments, measurement tools, and surveys to answer priority questions in order to drive decision-making Manage and maintain GHCs internal database (Salesforce) to ensure data integrity and efficient use of data
  • Data Collection, Analysis, and Management
  • Lead the organization in establishing best practices and supporting GHC staff with data collection, management, and reporting
  • Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis on GHC fellows’ and partner organization’s feedback related to their experience with the program, including formative feedback on individual training and programmatic components
  • Work with GHC’s development and communications teams to synthesize findings for external audiences including donors, fellow applicants, and media
  • Develop dashboards and standard reports to share across organizational teams and with GHC leadership

Desired skills and experience

• • • 5-7 years experience conducting program evaluation, ideally related to educational or training initiatives
    • Experience working in the field of global health; professional experience working on M&E cross-regional or international programs specifically in East or Southern Africa, preferred
    • Experience with quantitative and qualitative research methods
    • Experience conducting successful data collection activities, ideally across geographically and culturally diverse populations
    • Experience with survey design, implementation, and management. Proficient with SurveyMonkey and Google forms
    • Proficiency with Microsoft Excel (in-depth knowledge of pivot tables and vlookup is essential)
    • Proficiency with Salesforce or similar CRM database required; knowledge of Google Analytics preferred