the Global Health Corps Fellowship:
Global Health Corps
(GHC) is a
leadership development organization focused on building the next generation of
diverse, disruptive global health leaders. Founded in 2009, we competitively
recruit talented professionals (ages 21-30) from a range of sectors and
backgrounds and place them in high-impact roles within partner organizations —
including Clinton Health Access Initiative, Partners in Health, Planned
Parenthood Global, and Government Ministries in Zambia, Rwanda, and Uganda —
working on the front lines of health equity in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the US,
and Zambia.
GHC is seeking
fellows from a wide range of backgrounds, geographies, and expertise. Through a
one-year paid fellowship program, fellows provide the expertise and leadership
potential needed to fill capacity gaps in global health.
About the
Fellowship Placement Organization:
Spark seeks to build
a world where everyone lives with dignity and determines their own positive
future. To do this, Spark catalyzes rural communities facing poverty into
action. Since Spark’s founding in 2010, Spark has developed and refined a
Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP) that has proven highly effective
at launching community-driven development projects as well as increasing civic
engagement and social cohesion in partner communities. Spark promotes a
‘community-driven, expert supported’ model for development, where local
communities are the primary drivers of social change, but have the support and
advice of global development experts.
Spark supports
rural, poor communities to design, implement and manage their own social impact
projects. We provide microgrants of between $2,000 and $10,000 to enable
project implementation, such as the establishment of a school, electricity
line, or farm. No interest or repayment of the funds granted is requested.
To date Spark has
partnered with over 100 communities in Rwanda, Uganda, and Burundi who have
developed local project plans and are in the process of implementing them. To
learn more, visit Spark online at sparkmicrogrants.org and facebook.com/sparkmicrogrants.org.
Fellowship
Position Overview:
The Knowledge
Management Officer will act as a critical liaison between Spark’s Monitoring
and Evaluation (M&E) and Communications teams. The Officer will work with
the M&E Team on a variety of data analysis tasks, supporting the team’s
demonstration of impact at range of scales – at the community-level,
project/sector-level, country-level, and organizationally across the three
countries where Spark works. In addition, the individual will have a unique
opportunity to help translate data, through written narratives as well as
graphs and visualizations, into compelling communications for a range of donor
and partner audiences.
Responsibilities:
Primary
responsibilities – Data Analysis (50%)
- Work
with the M&E Team to prepare and analyze quantitative and qualitative
impact data - Support
smooth implementation of M&E systems (including data collection,
entry, checking and analysis, as well as data collection tools), providing
insight on areas for improvement or innovation - Identify
and contribute to emerging opportunities to understand and measure Spark’s
impact - Provide
capacity building and training organization-wide on M&E systems
(including data collection, entry, checking and analysis, as well as data
collection tools)
Primary
responsibilities – Reporting (50%)
- Support
routine and ad hoc data reporting requests - Identify,
implement, and innovate on interpretation and presentation of data, in
line with specific target audiences and messages - Craft
compelling impact narratives utilizing quantitative and qualitative data - Develop
graphics and visuals that bring our data to life in new ways and with new
audiences - Develop
and maintain an up-to-date data reporting library (including data,
narratives, and visuals) to strengthen and streamline external reporting - Contribute
to the integration of accurate and compelling data across Spark’s external
engagement platforms and collateral, including: annual and quarterly
reports, presentations, proposals, white papers, organizational website,
social media, etc. - Provide
capacity-building support to country teams on report writing, including
data presentation and impact narrative development - Work
with the Communications Manager to strengthen donor reporting work flow
for country-specific reports
Required
Skills and Experience:
- Strong
writing and analytical skills - Ability
to adjust writing style and approach to a range of audiences and channels - Intermediate
to advanced Excel skills - Experience
with basic data analysis and/or statistics - Ability
to translate data into graphs, visualizations, and other non-narrative
formats - Knowledge
of and comfort with a range of online communications and social media
platforms - Familiarity
with key concepts in nonprofit and international development M&E, such
as: theories of change, results frameworks, log frames, indicators, and
impact assessment
Preferred
Skills and Experience:
- Familiarity
with or interest in key issues in international development - Familiarity
with or interest in East African context
Fellows
Receive the Following Benefits:
- Monthly
living stipend
- Housing
- Utilities
stipend
- Health
insurance
- A
professional development grant of $600
- A
completion award of $1500
- Access
to a roster of professional advisors that fellows can connect with for
support on their fellowship work and graduate school or career advising
- Five
multi-day trainings and retreats throughout the year, including a two-week
Training Institute at Yale University in the United states to launch the
fellowship, and a five-day End of Year retreat in East Africa to close out
the fellowship
- Travel
to and from placement site and all trainings and retreats
- Professional
development and personal support from a dedicated in-country program
- Personal
development and accompaniment program led by Still Harbor
How
to apply
Apply at http:ghcorps.org/fellows/apply-to-be-a-fellow/
Applications will
close February 2nd, 2016.
If you have any
questions about the application process and the fellowship, refer to our FAQs
page at http:ghcorps.org/fellows/apply/faqs/
For specific
questions, direct them to applyinfo@ghcorps.org.
