Senior Program Officer - Survey Coordinator (Seconded to Global Financing Facility)
- Washington DC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Working through the existing GFF country engagement model, the survey coordinator will work under the direct supervision of the GFF Results and Learning Workstream Lead and will report to the head of the Results and Learning workstream. The key responsibility of the survey coordinator will be to provide technical leadership, operational guidance, oversight, and coordination on FASTR's survey portfolio, ensuring high technical quality and successful delivery of this growing, cross-country analytic portfolio. They will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of survey activities, serving as a critical link between in-country data collection partners and the GFF's Results team/FASTR central team.
- Specifically, the survey coordinator will provide day-to-day management and operational leadership to the following processes:
- Manage the end-to-end workflow/pipeline of survey operations (including selection of survey firms, oversight to data collection, quality assurance, analyses, and presentations) across 10-15 countries, working across a team at the GFF Secretariat, global and in-country partners (including close collaboration with the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Study), country governments, and in-country consultants.
- Provide oversight to survey firms and other in-country partners on enumerator training, data collection approaches, ethical approvals, and data management.
- Provide quality assurance across all firm-derived survey deliverables and GFF secretariat survey activities.
- Oversee round-to-round adaptation of survey tools and approaches including the development and/or maintenance of appropriate change logs, data dictionaries, and other needed processes.
- Develop and maintain appropriate data storage and management processes that adhere to the World Bank privacy policies and GFF's country engagement approaches, including de-identification of survey data and uploading onto the GFF's data repository and data portal.
- Lead the development of a survey manual(s), training materials, capacity development tools, and other resources required to support the scale-up of FASTR's survey approaches across multiple countries and partners.
- Keep the FASTR technical lead and other individuals on the GFF Results team appraised of all survey activities, their progress, and any support required, serving as a vital link between the central support team and in-country survey activities to ensure adequate support is provided to in-country activities and that country partners are working from relevant policies, procedures, and protocols developed by the GFF.
- Support survey design and planning processes including protocol development, study design, sampling, and analysis plans as requested.
- Participate in cross-country research, dissemination, and publication activities.
- Travel to support survey-related activities within FASTR countries (e.g., enumerator trainings, pilot workshops, etc.) may be required and will depend on specific needs (not anticipated to be more than 10%).
- Participates fully as a member of R4D by contributing, assisting and participating in projects, activities, and initiatives as requested by management
- At least 7 years of relevant research or project management experience supporting surveys in low- and middle-income countries, including contract/vendor management, survey operations, coordination, and quality assurance, is required.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating survey operations and data collection across multiple countries/vendors/activities simultaneously is required.
- Demonstrated experience working with country stakeholders
- Proficiency with STATA is required.
- Demonstrated self-starter that can operate both independently and within a team while managing multiple contingencies and competing deadlines.
- Superior written and oral communications skills in English is required.
- Field experience implementing survey data collection and quality assurance in South Asia, West Africa, and/or East Africa is preferred.
- Advanced skill in analyzing large datasets is preferred; experience with longitudinal datasets is an asset.
- Expertise in conducting sampling calculations for large-scale health facility, health service delivery-related evaluations, and/or household surveys is an asset.
- Proficiency in R, Python, ArcGIS, Tableau, and other statistical, data analysis, and data visualization software is strongly preferred.
- Professional proficiency in French is strongly preferred.