Taimaka Program Improvement Associate Jobs in Nigeria

Taimaka Program Improvement Associate Jobs in Nigeria; As an associate on our Program Improvement team, you would be in charge of running key innovation projects designed to improve our programming. While there is an element of research and evaluation to these projects, our goal is to avoid large-scale research trials and focus on quicker turnaround initiatives that are responsive to program needs. Think less abstract/academic research and more iterative design. A few examples of projects we are considering for 2025 are:

Integrating ORS/Zinc co-pack distribution into our mass screenings for acute malnutrition cases to save additional lives, along with a post-distribution follow-up data collection round to verify that households actually received the packs and understand when and how to use them.

Creating a biometric identification solution to track patient enrollment and improve identification of patients across time and facilities. This would involve identifying a developer who could implement this solution, project managing the implementation of it into our existing tech stack, and working with the programs team to roll the solution out.

Do a sprint on overhauling our care protocols for under-six months children based on the latest research and published guidance from the WHO. Interview with experts at other organizations to incorporate their lessons learned. Team up with the programs team to roll out these new protocols and do a pre/post analysis to understand what effect they have.

Our goal in hiring for this position is to find someone who can embed closely with our programs team and spend substantial time every week out in our facilities, understanding pain points and problems. We want someone who will obsess about optimizing implementation, and who can add capacity to our existing program improvement team to form the missing link between identifying a good idea and actually developing it into something actionable.

You would report to our Research and Program Improvement director, who would assist in setting priorities and identifying projects for you to work on. However, once you are assigned to a project, we will expect you to work independently, recruiting additional staff as needed, planning implementation, and executing, with guidance and mentoring from your supervisor. In this role, you will likely oversee 1-2 mid-level managers along with a variable number of field personnel to collect data or perform similar tasks.

We evaluate the cost-effectiveness of our programming in the GiveWell/Effective Altruist style, meaning we judge the success or failure of our program improvement projects based on whether they reduce our estimated cost-per-life saved. You will be expected to learn how to model cost-effectiveness in this way, and incorporate it into your decision making.

Specific Responsibilities

Manage Implementation of Specific Program Improvement Projects - 75% of your time

Planning and Setup - 35% of this chunk of time

Once assigned to a project, draft plans on how to go about implementing it. You may receive a very specific brief, or a more general task like “figure out novel ways to reduce nonresponse.”

You will likely need to carry out literature reviews and other research, like expert interviews, to identify possible strategies, and then develop a preferred approach out of that research.

Draft protocols to implement the project, as well as an evaluation strategy to efficiently/frugally study its impact.

Hire and train staff members required to to carry out the project (for instance, a team

of temporary field enumerators).

Create paper forms, supervision documents, Open Data Kit (ODK) digital forms, and other necessary tools to implement the project.

Implementation - 50% of this chunk of time

Project manage the implementation of the idea: set timelines, ensure they are met, troubleshoot issues as they arise

Monitor implementation and data quality by conducting weekly meetings with your junior staff, writing R or Python code to pull and clean any necessary data for checks, including by cross-checking program and survey data

Design and implement feedback loops to ensure identified problems are effectively addressed in a timely manner

Provide day-to-day oversight of your team, conduct performance reviews, provide training, and support team members’ professional development.

Analysis - 15% of this chunk of time

After the conclusion of projects, write up reports on lessons learned#

Carry out statistical analysis of any evaluation data to determine whether the project had the desired impact

Use impact and cost data to make recommendations as to whether the project should be incorporated into the CMAM program permanently, abandoned, or further iterated upon

If adopting the project, write protocols and work with the core CMAM program team to institutionalize it within their activities

Identify Future Program Improvement Projects - 15% of your time

Embed with the CMAM program team, spend time in Taimaka treatment facilities, interview staff - generally work to have very good context across the treatment program on what is working well, what isn’t, and what could work better

Get in the weeds, obsess about details

Speak with experts and implementers at other organizations, understand what they are thinking about and see as potential ways to improve treatment outcomes and reduce costs

Stay up to date on published literature in acute malnutrition treatment and related fields, as well as grey literature. Suggest ideas as they come to you, no matter how out there!

Work with the Research and Program Improvement director to conduct back-of-the-envelope cost-effectiveness assessments of new ideas to prioritize them for implementation

Mentor Program Improvement Fellows

Taimaka typically has 1-2 fellows per year (typically MPH students doing a practicum) come to Gombe to work on specific projects.

You would support the Research and Program Improvement director in showing these fellows the ropes of Gombe, helping them understand our program, and give them tips on how to go about executing on their own projects.


How to Apply

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