TITLE: Program and Data Specialist
DEPARTMENT: Emergency Programs
LOCATION: Houston, Texas
REPORTS TO: Harvey Response Team Lead
DURATION: One year, with the possibility of extension
STARTING DATE: ASAP
ABOUT AMERICARES
Americares global health programs seek to confront crisis and create change by creating pathways to health and opportunity. We aspire to support individuals, families and their communities to realize improved health outcomes that lead to years of good health so they can reach their full potential. The Global Program teams at the organization lead this work, working with our partners in over 40 countries through our Access to Medicines and Medical Consumables and reaching a total of 84 countries and 50 states through our work annually. The teams include the International Partnerships & Programs team, the US Team, and the Emergency Programs team, which encompasses emergency preparedness and risk reduction, emergency response, and disaster recovery.
Americares responds to 25-30 disasters a year in the US and around the world. Our goal is to save lives and protect and improve health threatened by disasters. We achieve this by providing medicines and medical supplies, restoring health facilities and systems, providing mental health and psychosocial support, and preventing the spread of disease.
POSITION SUMMARY
Hurricane Harvey, the first major hurricane to hit the United States in over a decade, made landfall in Texas on Friday, August 25, 2017. Heavy rain and strong winds caused significant damage and flooding along the Texas coast, including Rockport, Refugio and Corpus Christi. Although Harvey – a category 4 at its height – was downgraded to a tropical storm over the weekend, the storm stalled over east Texas, causing torrential rainfall and unprecedented flooding, particularly in Houston, Beaumont, Port Arthur and surrounding areas.
Americare’s Harvey Response and Recovery Programs are focused on restoring health care services in the affected areas, particularly for the most vulnerable, removing barriers to health care access, addressing disaster-related mental health issues, and building the resilience of health care systems.
Americares is seeking a Program and Data Specialist to support Americares efforts to restore and improve health care services for Harvey affected areas.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collect and analyze data to inform needs assessments and situation reports.
- Maintain up to date information on partner outreach and support.
- Conduct partner outreach as needed, in coordination with Team Lead.
- Collect, maintain, and analyze data to support program monitoring and evaluation efforts.
- Help define, refine, track and analyze performance metrics and output and outcome measures.
- Support program and project management by developing and monitoring workplans, schedules, budget, burn rate, and other management tools.
- Support grantmaking process: conduct meetings to provide guidance to help partners complete grant applications, collect and review grant reports from partners, provide reports on outcomes and outputs from grant-funded programs.
- Track and analyze data related to response and recovery performance.
- Support internal and external communications by compiling and presenting quantitative and qualitative data on the response effort.
- Provide regular updates to Team Lead, participate in briefing calls.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
REQUIREMENTS
- Three years’ experience in data analysis and/or monitoring and evaluation.
- One year grants management support experience preferred.
- Experience in public health, disaster relief, or human services preferred.
- Experience working with external partners preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
- Proficiency in English. Proficiency in Spanish is an asset.
- Proficient in MS tools including Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Power BI
- Strong writer
- Skilled in data analysis.
- Able to present quantitative and qualitative data clearly and concisely.
- Strong organizational skills, comfortable multi-tasking and working in a fast-paced, changing work environment;