Associate Specialist, Modelling & Reporting - GL C - Defined

Reporting to the Manager, Allocation and Modelling, the Associate Specialist supports the development and implementation of the Global Fund impact modelling agenda in close collaboration with the technical partners and relevant teams within the Global Fund Secretariat. The role will provide modelling and reporting support, working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders and experts to ensure a high quality.

This includes up-to-date estimates of past and projected disease burden (e.g. incidence of prevalence and mortality) and impact (e.g. deaths, infection, case or DALY averted and return in investment) of Global Fund investments. This role ensures these are made available in a timely fashion and appropriate format to inform corporate policy discussions, the development of Global Fund strategy programmatic and impact targets and Investment Cases, Results Reports, corporate KPI reporting, and other needs.

The Associate Specialist will also contribute to a wide range of analytical work in measuring and reporting on programmatic results, performance and impact through modelling and analytical approaches.

• Provides modelling and reporting support including innovative thinking in setting and implementing the Global Fund impact modelling agenda
• Supports the consolidation, analysis, and reporting on impact of Global Fund investments using various metrics and for various deliverables, incl. the development and cascading of Global Fund strategy targets, the Global Fund Investment Case, KPI reporting and the Global Fund Results Report
• Supports consultation processes with key stakeholders
• Supports the drafting of modelling scenarios tailored to the specific needs and ensures their quality implementation
• Provides high-quality input data to the modelers
• Supports the Allocation and Modelling team in ensuring that impact measures are accessible to the relevant stakeholders through corporate dashboards and other means and ensures accompanying guidance and tools to describe the methods, potential uses, and the caveats are disseminated, and capacity built with internal teams
• Supports the team to ensure auditable high-quality archiving of the methods documents, input and output data as well as actual models and key assumptions and parameters
• Supports the process of ensuring that Global Fund methods for impact modelling more accessible to the relevant audience through drafting the method section of the Investment Case, Results Reports, KPI reporting as well as peer-reviewed journal articles
• Supports strategic information analysis and produces data products for assessing programmatic results, performance and impact of the national programs as assigned by the Manager, Allocation, and Modelling
• Prepares high-quality analyses, visualizations and reports to facilitate high-level Board and Committee decision making and present to the Board and Strategy Committee on allocation policy discussions and decisions
• Subject to change by the Executive Director at any time at their sole discretion

• Essential:
  First university degree in disease transmission modelling, biostatistics and/or a relevant field
• Desirable:
  Additional qualifications in any of the relevant areas of technical expertise

• Essential:
  Solid experience in modelling using statistical or disease transmission models and data analysis
• Essential:
  Proven technical expertise in existing impact modelling software, including Spectrum Goals/AIM, AEM, TIME, Imperial malaria model
• Essential:
  Experience engaging and influencing stakeholders for collaboration as well as networking in a complex environment
• Essential:
  Demonstrated…