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ABOUT VILLAGEREACH

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone. We are driven by a vision of a world where each person has the health care needed to thrive. VillageReach’s goal is to reduce inequities in access to quality primary health care for 350 million people by 2030. We work with governments, the private sector, partners and communities to build responsive primary health care systems that deliver health products, information and services to the most under-reached. As a locally driven and globally connected organization, VillageReach has offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and the United States.

Summary

VillageReach invites qualified candidates to apply for the position of Research Assistant on the Research, Evidence, and Learning Team, to support our Pacific Northwest Health Equity Program. This program supports rural and urban local health departments across the region to strengthen their programs and services to improve health equity and better meet the needs of their communities.

Specifically, this Research Assistant position will provide support to a remote course that VillageReach is conducting for WA State local health department staff from February-July 2024. The course will be focused on public health program design and evaluation. Ideal candidates will bebased in Washington State,enrolled in a graduate-level program, and able to support for 6 months – and potentially beyond. The Research Assistant will report to a Manager on the Research, Evidence, and Learning Team.

We are interested in candidates who are representative of the diverse populations we support across Washington State. We strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds and identities to apply. This is an immediate hire and therefore resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis until January 15.

Description

Research Assistantsare paid staff that typically work part-time (15-20 hours per week) during graduate school. This Research Assistant willwork closely with the Pacific Northwest Health Equity Program to support work with local health departments across the PNW region in both rural and urban locations. The PNW Health Equity Program works in many different health areas such as immunization, preparedness, communicable disease and infection prevention, epidemiology, communications, and community health.

Specifically, this Research Assistant position will provide support to a remote course that VillageReach is conducting for WA State local health department staff from February-July 2024. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

• Providing support in preparing course materials related to public health program design
• Coordinating slide submissions from different presenters; creating, editing and formatting slides; identifying and sharing course resources with participants
• Developing and facilitating interactive activities during synchronous online sessions
• Communicating and coordinating with course participants and guest speakers
• Tracking assignment submissions from course participants and following up as needed; developing feedback surveys and reviewing results; acting as a resource for course participants
• Sending out Teams/Zoom and meeting invites; providing technical assistance during Teams/Zoom calls
• Setting up and updating online course management system (e.g. SharePoint, Google Classroom, etc.) to store and share course materials
• Taking notes during sessions; sharing notes and action items after calls
• The Research Assistant may also support other PNW Health Equity Projects as time allows such as health assessments and program evaluations. Support needs may include:

• Literature reviews and landscape analyses
• Qualitative data collection (surveys, interviews, etc.) and analysis
• Quantitative data analysis and visualization
• Slide development, report writing and copyediting
• Contributing to business development such as identifying funding opportunities, grant proposal writing and reviewing

Competencies:

VillageReach has ten (10) Organizational Competencies that describe how we work together and get things done that are grouped into three strategic areas of Achieving Great Results, Setting Direction and, Bringing Others With you. For a full description, please download our Organizational Competency document.

Achieving Great Results:

Risk Taking and Innovation

• Key Behaviors: Comfort with ambiguity, curiosity, adaptability, unconstrained and undeterred creativity, resourcefulness.
• Business Judgement
• Key Behaviors: Getting to root causes, understanding environment, navigating complexity and ambiguity, entrepreneurial energy.

Building Strong Teams

• Key Behaviors: Trust in Subject Matter Experts (SME’s); radical candor to resolve conflict, hold each other accountable as colleagues, focused on results, commitment to mission.

Setting Direction:

Compelling Communication

• Key Behaviors: Clear and evidence-based communication, audience adaptability, curious listener.
• Resilient Self Leadership
• Key Behaviors: Self-aware, plan how one shows up, emotionally intelligent, use one’s own agency and takes accountability.

Stewardship and Personal Alignment

• Key Behaviors: Take ownership, display ethical conduct, effective at resource management, alignment of personal objectives with organizational goals and mission, focus on continuous improvement and sustainability.

Bringing Others with You:

Influencing Leadership

• Key Behaviors: Cultivate trust, influences to make change, navigate the matrix structure.

Radical Partnership

• Key Behaviors: Share information and credit, address conflict, increase impact through collaboration, political and contextual awareness.

Cultivates a Growth Mindset

• Key Behaviors: Seek out diverse input, demonstrate flexibility in thinking and curiosity, embrace challenges, demonstrate persistence, seek learning opportunities.

Cultural Intelligence and Inclusion

• Key Behaviors: Continuous learning and ally-ship across cultural lines, challenge prejudice and bias, modeled in one’s own behavior.