Careers at Jacaranda Health

What You’ll Do:

Lead M&E Strategy and Systems

• Design, implement, and oversee M&E strategies, logic models, and indicator frameworks across programs.
• Ensure quality and consistency across all M&E systems and data collection frameworks
• Lead the rollout and management of data collection tools (KoBo Toolbox, SurveyCTO, ODK) ensuring version control and data integrity.
• Coordinate closely with Programs, Research, and Tech teams to ensure timely outputs and actionable learnings.

Oversee PROMPTS Biannual Surveys (Kenya & Ghana)

• Manage all survey phases including planning, enumerator training, data collection, cleaning, analysis, and reporting.
• Ensure survey protocols, sampling, and QA processes meet internal and global standards.
• Translate findings into clear recommendations, driving program improvements and sharing learnings with stakeholders.

Lead Analysis & Reporting

• Conduct regular and ad-hoc analyses of program data to monitor trends and program performance.
• Develop program scorecards, donor reports, dashboards, and decision briefs for internal and external use.
• Triangulate multiple data sources to validate results and deepen insights.

Build and Share Insightful Dashboards

• Design, maintain, and improve integrated dashboards that visualize KPIs and guide decision-making.
• Ensure dashboards are intuitive, visually impactful, and actionable.
• Train program staff and partners to interpret and utilize dashboards effectively.

Drive Quality & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain data quality through robust QA processes, cleaning routines, and documentation.
• Facilitate data-use sessions with field and leadership teams to generate insights and drive course correction.
• Maintain a learning agenda capturing key performance gaps and improvement priorities.

External Representation & Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as a key communicator of M&E findings to county leadership, government, and partners.
• Contribute analytics to funding proposals, reports, and external publications.
• Support thought leadership in evidence-based public health systems strengthening.

Team Leadership & Capacity Building

• Line-manage and mentor M&E analysts, providing coaching on technical, strategic, and professional growth.
• Promote documentation, peer review, and quality assurance practices across the M&E function.
• Build the capacity of internal teams and local partners to use M&E data effectively.

Other Duties

• Undertake any other tasks assigned to support division and organizational objectives.

​​​​​​​Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Public Health, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, or related fields.
• 5–7+ years of progressive M&E experience, with at least 2 years managing teams or complex projects.
• Experience engaging government health systems and cross-country stakeholders is an advantage.
• Expertise in survey design, sampling, indicator frameworks, and M&E systems.
• Proficiency in STATA, R, Python; familiarity with SQL, PowerBI, or Tableau preferred.

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What You’ll Do:

​​​​​​​Data Product Development & Management

• Lead the end-to-end development of dashboards, datasets, analytical tools, and pipelines that serve internal teams and government partners.
• Translate program needs into technical requirements and clear user stories.Maintain and prioritize a data product roadmap aligned with organizational strategy.Balance short-term outputs with long-term product vision, scalability, and reliability.

Lead Multiple Analytics Workstreams

• Oversee analytics delivery across PROMPTS, MENTORS, HSS, and other programs.
• Scope and plan deliverables, define milestones, and manage timelines.Apply agile project management principles to ensure high-quality and timely outputs.

Strengthen Data Infrastructure & Systems

• Identify gaps in data pipelines and infrastructure; propose and drive improvements.Strengthen data validation, documentation, and governance to ensure accuracy and usability.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Tech teams to streamline integrations and pipeline performance.

Insight Generation & Data Storytelling

• Lead strategic analyses to surface trends, risks, and opportunities across programs.Translate insights into decision-ready dashboards, memos, and presentations.
• Set visual analytics standards to ensure products are clear, intuitive, and impactful.

External Representation & Stakeholder Engagement

• Represent Jacaranda Health in data-related forums with county governments, partners, and donors.
• Contribute insights to proposals, publications, and donor reports.
• Support thought leadership in data-driven public health systems strengthening.

Team Leadership & Capacity Building

• Line-manage and mentor analysts, providing coaching on technical and professional development.
• Foster a culture of documentation, feedback, continuous improvement, and excellence.
• Lead quality assurance processes across data products and analyses.

Other Duties

• Undertake any other tasks assigned to support division and organizational objectives.

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Public Health, Information Systems, or related fields.
• At least 7+ years in data product management, analytics, or related fields, ideally within health tech, digital health, or the social impact sector.
• Proficiency in R, Python, STATA, SQL, and data visualization tools such as PowerBI or Tableau.
• Experince designiing dashboards with strong UI/UX and using data collection platforms like KoBoToolbox, ODK, and SurveyCTO.