Through its Immunization Center, JSI seeks to strengthen global, regional and country efforts to provide technical assistance for new vaccine introduction, improve Routine Immunization systems and increase coverage at scale in a sustainable and equitable way. JSI is a global leader known for its unique focus on strengthening routine immunization as an integral part of the broader health system. JSI works at scale with Ministries of Health and partners to support the multiple interrelated components of the RI system to improve equitable, high coverage through identifying, designing and spreading promising new program approaches to sustainably overcome long-standing challenges. This includes ensuring that new vaccines are effectively integrated within the routine system following introduction.

This role will support the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded HPV Vaccine Acceleration Partners Platform Initiative (HAPPI) Consortium. HAPPI seeks to accelerate access to and improve coverage of HPV vaccines, while also strengthening programs and the evidence base through its monitoring, evaluation, and learning. The HAPPI Consortium, in collaboration with our esteemed partners, is managed by JSI together with Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Jhpiego, and PATH.

The HAPPI project is seeking two Research Technical Advisors to work with the project Senior Technical Advisor for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL), HPV vaccines to design and implement a wide range of program evaluation and learning activities for HPV vaccination programs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) that will be led by JSI, within the five-agency consortium of HAPPI.

The Research Technical Advisor will bring technical expertise and experience in HPV vaccines and immunization as well as versatility in measurement and learning approaches, among them mixed methods evaluation / implementation research, quasi-experimental design; monitoring, evaluation and learning planning (MEL) and execution; rapid assessments, root cause analyses, SWOT matrices, case studies; developmental valuation/adaptation and learning; and rightsizing the appropriate method to context and question(s) for learning. The Research Technical Advisor will possess technical expertise and management skills; deep experience in implementation and/or evaluation of HPV vaccine delivery and programs; strong data management and analysis skills across a variety of study designs (both quantitative and qualitative); collaboration skills with country and global stakeholders; and the ability to foster an atmosphere of teamwork, productivity, fairness, equity, innovation, and support for diversity in working with team members, clients, and stakeholders.

The Research Technical Advisor will work independently under the direction of the project Senior Technical Advisor for MEL, to ensure planned HPV research, evaluation, and learning activities are executed ethically, with rigor, and in a timely manner within agreed to funding limits. The Research Technical Advisor will lead the compilation of results into meaningful outputs, such as tables, figures, graphs, and other visualizations, and research briefs or reports, PowerPoint presentations, and/or manuscripts.

We will consider candidates in any US states where JSI R&T is registered (AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, PA, RI, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WI), as well as any countries JSI R&T is registered (Burundi, Burkina Faso, DRC, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Guyana, Honduras, Kyrgyz Republic, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Serbia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

• Co-chair the HAPPI project MEL work group, a representative body of the overall consortium, ensuring effective coordination of evaluation and learning efforts across the partnership.
• Share leading the portfolio of JSI’s HPV learning activities, with limited supervision and under the direction of the senior technical advisor for MEL.
• Design and implement studies, evaluations, and learning activities focused exclusively on HPV vaccines and HPV vaccination programs.
• Develop data collection tools and methods appropriate to the learning activity and question(s) under study.
• Write data analysis plans and conduct rigorous data analysis and synthesis of both quantitative and qualitative data.
• Draft data collection and implementation logistics plans.
• Contribute to rational inputs for budget assumptions for research and learning activities, especially in-country data collection expenses (staff, time, in-country needs, logistics, data management/analysis, writing outputs, etc.).
• Collaborate with communications and partners to compile and disseminate research and evaluation results to the HPV vaccine and cervical cancer community at country, regional, and global levels.
• Contribute to external communications and dissemination of HPV learning activities, achievements, and lessons learned, as applicable. This may include the development of conference abstracts and conference presentations, peer reviewed manuscripts, presentations for workshops, and others.
• Research and evaluation portfolio may be divided by topic area or study.

• Strong understanding of the evidence base for HPV vaccines and HPV vaccination programs in LMICs, with in-country field experience is required.
• Demonstrable experience leading implementation learning design, synthesis, documentation, and dissemination, including study design, data analysis, field implementation, and generation of meaningful written and visual outputs.
• Strong analytic experience working with and manipulating multiple types of data sets, including surveys, interviews, rapid assessments, mixed methods, repeated measures, time trend data, etc., and the appropriate statistical analyses for quantitative and qualitative variables.
• Knowledge of statistical tests of association and logistic regression.
• Proficiency with data management, analysis, visualization software packages for quantitative and qualitative data, e.g., SAS, SPSS, STATA, R, Nvivo, Atlas.ti, Dedoose, MAXQDA, etc.
• Exposure to global health and/or immunization programs in LMICs is required.
• Familiarity with the concepts of gender equity, intentionality, and transformative approaches in program evaluations a plus.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Excellent written and oral communications.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team-based remote-work environment.
• Geographic location negotiable.

Travel:Ability and willingness to travel nationally and internationally.
Languages:Excellent written and oral communication skills in English. Ability to work in French or Portuguese may be useful.