Engagement Manager at Maisha Meds

Maisha Meds is an organisation dedicated to improving health care in Africa. We began full-time operations in 2017 and over the past few years have grown to support over 1.5 million patient encounters annually across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, and Zambia with our suite of software products. We are building the financial and technology infrastructure to enable global health funders to pay for health outcomes at the last mile, with a focus on malaria case management (and results from a RCT with UC Berkeley due out later this year), injectable contraceptives, prenatal care, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, and COVID testing and vaccination.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Engagement Manager

Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full-Time
Minimum Experience: Experienced
Department: Strategy + BD

About the Role

• We have ongoing engagements to support the data needs for several family planning and malaria programs in partnership with SEMA, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and several ministries of health to provide data back to them on private sector consumption habits of over 6 million patient encounters yearly.  
• The organization is looking for an enthusiastic engagement manager who can independently deliver on and oversee projects in partnership with our excellent data team
• The role would include identifying the right types of analyses to be done, building the analyses and dashboards, developing reports and other deliverables for our clients, and engaging with the data team to support building a streamlined data product from these individual sets of analysis.
• This role is a good growth opportunity for a senior researcher, management consultant, or data scientist seeking to move into the global health field, or someone with a pharmaceutical or healthcare background looking to hone their analytics skills. 

Responsibilities
Oversee data cleaning and analysis:

• Independently deliver on creating visualizations in BI tools (Redash and Metabase) using best practice tools and quality code to provide ongoing visibility of health and commodity consumption trends
• Oversee analysis of trends and come up with interesting findings in our data
• Spearhead data cleaning efforts and automations by building maintainable tools using Excel and Python

Lead data product development:

• Work with external stakeholders and clients to understand their ongoing data insight needs and scope out comprehensive approaches to building dashboards
• Capture feedback and provide product specs and overviews of analyses needed to data team to productize our data offering
• Begin to understand how stakeholders interact with and use our data to refine the dashboards to meet their needs, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches to understanding usage trends

Develop externally-facing reports and presentations:

• Write interim and final reports summarizing trends and insights from data analysis activities outlined above
• Prepare presentations, policy memos, and blog posts to share these data insights with an external audience
• Support business development activities as needed and perform desk research and literature reviews of public health topics.

Skills & Qualifications

• Mastered preferred in field of Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Science and Public Health
• 5+ years of experience in quantitative analysis and project management
• Strong Excel / spreadsheet skills: lookup, logical, and text formulas, pivot tables, data functions, etc.
• Product management to understand data usability and applicability of data analyses and adapt the presentation to the needs of users
• Require experience with common data analysis tools including SQL and/or Python is preferred; or experience with similar tools and enthusiasm to develop these skills
• Prior experience leading development of deliverables and reports for global health funders or other external stakeholders
• Excellent attention to detail
• Experience working with messy data sets and joining data from different sources
• Independent initiative and problem solving skills – figuring out what people are interested in seeing in our data and how to meet these needs
• Knowledge around pharmaceutical or health care products is a strong asset
• Good cross-cultural communication skills and enjoy working with a diverse team
• Excited about the potential to improve healthcare access using data!

Why You Should Join Us

• On a roll: recent funding, new countries, exciting growth in our funder and customer base…things are rolling.
• Great team: Founded, managed and backed by successful veterans of Stanford School of Medicine, Google, Safe Boda, Lions Head Global Partners, I&M Bank. We have technologists, clinicians, and economists working side by side to solve difficult problems.
• Great funders: We’re backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID Development Innovation Ventures, CIFF, WHO FIND, and Pfizer - their funding provides us catalytic funding to fundamentally change the way health outcomes are funded in the private sector throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Large addressable market: Disrupting a massive, growing $50+ billion market for healthcare payments for low-income patients.
• Great customers: Serving low & middle income segments sustainably.
• Impact: A fun and exciting start-up culture that empowers its people to make a meaningful impact.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online