Senior Program Officer, Data & Insights, Nutrition

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and monitor activities focused on understanding and documenting institutional transformation to develop supports to engage in change processes.
• Engage with external partners to provide statistical and evaluation design expertise to help them produce relevant, high-quality work to improve strategy execution and to support the field.
• Analyze, synthesize, and report findings from funded and other research to internally inform the foundation’s strategy evaluation, planning, and development.
• Develop appropriate evaluation models and support monitoring, learning, and evaluation activities related to program work, including serving as a subject matter expert on research related to a portfolio.
• Negotiate, implement, conduct, and manage complex, performance-based contracts or grants, including soliciting and reviewing grant proposals, preparing and presenting proposal summaries and progress reports, monitoring and reviewing grantee progress, budgets, and deliverables, and supporting partner convenings or site visits to increase impact.
• Decide who or when to approach external partners to develop grant opportunities or to form strategic partnerships, how to craft grant opportunities within the boundaries of strategic priorities, how to allocate funding within the grant-making or contract pipeline, and what is the appropriate context and content of external convenings.
• Serve as point of contact on portfolio-related issues for key collaborators internally and externally.
• Represent the foundation with grantees, other funders, universities, think tanks, and government agencies.
• Serve on boards and working groups.
• Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; raise issues in a timely fashion to appropriate partners.

Skillset

• An advanced degree in Public Health Nutrition, Implementation Research, , International Development, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience in education or evaluation field.
• At least 10 years of proven experience in a similar role, with substantial expertise in research, evaluation, and data-driven decision-making within nutrition or global health programs.
• Experience working in LMICs, with governments, development partners and academia supporting the design and implementation of M&E plans for LSFF and/or multi-sector nutrition programs, managing evaluations, and ensuring effective data collection, analysis, reporting and translation to policy.
• Demonstrated experience working with AI/ML tools, data models, and/or large-scale data initiatives in the nutrition and global health sectors.
• An advanced degree in Public Health Nutrition, Implementation Research, , International Development, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience in education or evaluation field.
• At least 10 years of proven experience in a similar role, with substantial expertise in research, evaluation, and data-driven decision-making within nutrition or global health programs.
• Experience working in LMICs, with governments, development partners and academia supporting the design and implementation of M&E plans for LSFF and/or multi-sector nutrition programs, managing evaluations, and ensuring effective data collection, analysis, reporting and translation to policy.
• Demonstrated experience working with AI/ML tools, data models, and/or large-scale data initiatives in the nutrition and global health sectors.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex data insights in a clear, actionable way to a range of collaborators, including proximal partners in LMICs
• Strong interpersonal skills, with experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, external partners, and collaborators at the global, national, and local levels.
• Analytical mindset with a keen ability to synthesize complex data and generate actionable insights.
• Passion for using data and evidence to drive impactful solutions in global nutrition.
• Collaborative, with the ability to support strong relationships across teams, partners, and stakeholders.
• Proactive, solution-oriented approach to overcoming challenges and improving program effectiveness.