Avenir Health, a global health organization that works to enhance social and economic development, is seeking to hire a Senior Associate with strong quantitative skills to contribute to costing, modeling, and planning activities that support international donors and national programs.

Duties include:

• Supporting the development and application of analytical frameworks and quantitative tools for prioritization of health interventions
• Contributing to development and application of economic models for new health technologies
• Analyzing impact, cost, and cost-effectiveness of programs.
• Carrying out literature review and extraction of relevant impact and cost data
• Supporting design of health costing guidelines
• Contributing to writing of reports and peer-reviewed journal articles

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

• A relevant post-graduate degree (MPH, etc.) in public health, economics or other social sciences, or a health-related field. A PhD in any of the fields above would be a plus.
• Five years’ experience in international public health
• Detail-oriented with excellent quantitative skills
• Expertise with Excel
• Excellent communication (email, presentation, writing) skills
• Knowledge of developing country population and health issues.
• Ability to work successfully across a wide range of teams and projects and with people of diverse cultural backgrounds
• Ability to travel to developing countries as needed (10 -40% of time), and ability to work well with developing country counterparts and support capacity building
• Proficiency in a second language (French, Spanish, or Portuguese) a plus
• Experience/knowledge/understanding of HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment interventions a plus
• Experience/knowledge/understanding of ABC/M (Activity-Based Costing for Management) and TDABC (Time-Driven Activity-Based costing) a plus

The position is likely to be based in Washington DC, USA.

Qualified candidates should email cover letter and resume to: resumes@avenirhealth.org

Job Email id: resumes(at)avenirhealth.org