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ICF seeks to hire a research coordinator at the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) National Coordination Office (NCO) to support federal interagency working groups and initiatives, primarily in the area of climate change and human health. The successful candidate will serve as the primary facilitation and coordination support to the USGCRP’s Interagency Crosscutting Climate Change and Human Health Group (CCHHG), foster the integration of health activities and expertise in other areas of the Program, and provide coordination support as needed to interagency efforts in other areas of Program need.

The USGCRP coordinates and integrates global change research and supporting activities conducted by 13 Federal Agencies and Departments. It is overseen by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) of the Executive Office of the President and by representatives from the 13 member agencies. The day-to-day activities and operations of the USGCRP are facilitated by the USGCRP NCO.  The NCO is responsible for promoting interagency coordination and integration of Federal climate and global change research programs and facilitating international cooperation.

Key Responsibilities of the Successful Candidate:

Coordination and support of the CCHHG:

• Works with the CCHHG Federal co-chairs to conceptualize, plan, and execute CCHHG monthly meetings and intersessional calls.
• Supports the co-chairs in managing CCHHG meetings, including scheduling, materials distribution, and follow-up.
• Assists the CCHHG with communications, member requests, and general inquiries.

Project management and support of CCHHG projects and initiatives.

• Works with the CCHHG federal co-chairs and NCO leadership to provide support for planning, execution, and management of CCHGG events (e.g. conference exhibitions and sessions, workshops, etc.).
• Manages and supports development, review, and editorial processes of CCHHG work products (e.g. fact sheets, workshop reports, special assessments).
• Provides logistical, technical, and meeting support for individual project task teams as they form under CCHHG.

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Data Systems Associate, RTI International

Duties and Responsibilities:

Electronic data collection platform management

• Prepare server for each survey event including uploading questionnaires, adding new users, and clearing out test data
• Modify Open Data Kit (ODK) questionnaires (XLS and XLM forms) as required for each country
• Act as liaison with in-country and HQ teams to plan and implement EDC portion of surveys
• Support country teams to set up mobile devices and troubleshoot data collection issues

Survey Data management

• Monitor data during times when surveys are in the field and issue feedback to countries promptly
• Create or update data monitoring, data cleaning, and analytical output scripts in STATA or R  
• Identify opportunities for data analysis and visual analytics to increase efficiency and effectiveness of survey activities both through online and offline tools including GIS software
• Continually improve database and interface by writing requirements, validating requirements, working with developers as needed, and testing new functionality
• Perform statistical analysis on individual and cross-country datasets for routine reporting and special requests

Information management and training

• Review protocols and reports to ensure that EDC and survey data management is described appropriately
• Create and maintain “standard” questionnaires for typical surveys and track changes and versions through version control platform such as GitHub
• Contribute to the creation of training materials for EDC surveys including field training manuals, presentations, and other materials as needed
• Coordinate with Learning Specialist to identify and compile lessons learned based on field implementation of EDC
• Maintain a repository of protocols, questionnaires, and reports for all surveys
• Create and maintain a machine-readable database for tracking survey document information, results, and datasets for surveys
• Occasional travel to countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and South East Asia to support training in EDC and data management

Oxfam, Data and Information Analyst

Oxfam International has been refining and improving processes related to annual planning (programs and resources), program quality reflection, operational progress and budget reporting, and program results reporting. These processes and formats generate quantitative and qualitative data, as well as information on Oxfam programs and resources.

The data and information are to be collated, aggregated, analyzed, visualized/displayed, and used in decisionmaking and governance processes. Some of the analyses are routine and pre-defined by Oxfam’s annual and quarterly management and reporting processes; others are ad-hoc, one-time, and/or tailored to specific questions and needs. Quantitative analyses require descriptive and some inferential work, as well as data visualization. Analyses may be both inductive and deductive, depending on purpose and questions raised. It may be necessary to set up syntax, in appropriate statistical software, to import, merge and analyze data and provide visualization on a routine basis with new data collected annually. Products will range from PowerPoints summarizing findings, to brief written narrative pieces, to Excel sheets with aggregated data, to infographics visualization pieces. When analyses are written up in narrative form, they should be suitable for brief, user-friendly, wide-consumption pieces such as Workplace posts, blog posts, podcasts, etc.

Examples of existing processes that need data analysis

1. Evaluation reports

2. Planning and reporting exercises from different groups, from which we need to extract topline summaries

3. Questionnaires (e.g. customer satisfaction; consultations, systems for mutual accountability and stakeholder feedback)

4. Analysis and sense-making of progress reports

5. Output reports (quantitative and qualitative data)

Approach

The clients of analyses, and main consumers of the analyst’s work, are mainly management and governance staff, such as regional directors, country directors, regional leadership teams, global program director, knowledge for impact director and team, operations director and team, governance bodies. The approach of the analyst will entail:

• working with clients to understand and help define/sharpen their questions based on their purpose and needs;

• preparing datasets as needed (e.g., by importing, or merging, or extracting, etc.);

• conducting analyses;

• preparing and sharing the output in an appropriate and user-friendly format;

• discussing and validating it with clients;

• advising, in an iterative process as appropriate, on what questions the data, information and analyses can and cannot answer;

• refining, adding, or adjusting as necessary based on client inputs and requests; and

• finalizing the analysis products to be used internally and externally

In this, the analyst will take a strong customer-focused approach and maintain customer satisfaction as a key measure of success. At the same time, the analyst will maintain the appropriate level of rigor in handling, managing, and analysing all data and information. While not setting the agenda for analyses or defining the purpose and questions, the analyst will be expected to liaise with various Oxfam teams and departments to understand the work well enough – particularly the larger processes that produce the data and information – to perform analyses and advise on them in ways that are appropriate and fit-for-purpose.

In addition, the analyst will collaborate with Oxfam Affiliates to bring together datasets for cross-confederation use and analysis. These may be data expressly collected for monitoring, evaluation, and/or research purposes, or data generated in the course of Oxfam performing its work, such as data in various management systems and reports. In either case, the work will require designing the merge and resulting new dataset, and working with colleagues in Oxfam Affiliates to carry out the

Skills

• Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods analysis

• Statistical software (with preference for open-source solutions)

• Qualitative analysis software a plus • Strong customer focus

• Ability to balance rigor with creative approaches to arrive at fit-for-purpose products

• A sense of humour and a dose of patience

• Problem-solving attitude and track record

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Ability to communicate analyses to management without jargon, in a succinct, easy to digest manner

• Cross-cultural communication or experience in cross-cultural/international settings a plus

• Experience working virtually and remotely

• Willingness to work outside of usual office hours to accommodate different time zones

• Ability to plan work, self-direct, and meet short deadlines

• Fluent in both oral and written English. Working knowledge of Spanish and/or French is desirable.

Conditions:

This is offered as a consultancy for 12 months, from late January/early February 2019, on a full-time basis (approximately 35 hours per week). Why a short-term assignment? This is a new function that we need to test and learn. Eventually adapt or develop into a longer-term position in the program teams. The position will be reporting to the Knowledge for Impact Team (KIT) of Oxfam, with a % of the time dedicated to joint work between KIT and Operations, mainly the planning 2019-20 and the reporting 2018-19 cycles.

Location: home-based or one of the Oxfam offices.

Remuneration: to be discussed

Contact: Velina Petrova (Velina [dot] petrova [at] oxfam [dot] org) and Cristina Sette (Cristina [dot] sette [at] oxfam [dot] org)