Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist; Global Health

Nakupuna Solutions seeks a Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist (Global Health) to support the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD), Office of Program Planning and Evaluation (PPEV). GHSD leads and coordinates the Department’s work to strengthen global health security and prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS. The Bureau leads U.S. diplomatic engagement, leverages and helps coordinate U.S. foreign assistance, and promotes international cooperation at the national, regional, and multilateral levels to better protect the United States and the world from health threats.

GHSD elevates and integrates global health security as a core component of U.S. national security and foreign policy.

The Specialist will support PPEV as GHSD advances U.S. global health priorities, including implementation of the America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS). The position will help turn complex global health program, epidemiologic, and financial data into clear insights that inform policy, program, and resource decisions.

The Specialist will support PPEV’s data team by integrating data from multiple sources, conducting global and country-level analyses, interpreting findings, and translating results into compelling visual and written products for senior leaders and other audiences. The ideal candidate will combine the analytical rigor of a data analyst, the curiosity of a researcher, and the design judgment of a visual storyteller. This is a hands-on role with responsibility for developing products from the initial analytical question through final delivery, including presentations, dashboards, briefs, one-pagers, infographics, and reusable reporting tools.

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Duties Include:

• Integrate, prepare, clean, link, and harmonize datasets from national health systems, program reporting, surveys, financial sources, and other relevant repositories.
• Resolve differences across datasets, including variations in definitions, reporting periods, geographic coverage, data quality, and units of analysis.
• Conduct global, regional, and country-level analyses of global health program, epidemiologic, financial, demographic, and performance data.
• Examine trends, geographic variation, program performance, service coverage, financing, and relationships across indicators to develop meaningful findings.
• Assess data quality, comparability, limitations, missing data, and unexpected results, and distinguish supported conclusions from areas of uncertainty.
• Interpret analytical findings with sound judgment and clearly explain what the data show, how confident decision-makers should be in the findings, and what questions or actions may warrant attention.
• Translate analytical results into clear messages, logical narratives, and concise explanations tailored to technical audiences, senior leaders, and other stakeholders.
• Develop polished PowerPoint presentations, Word reports, executive briefs, one-page summaries, fact sheets, infographics, and other written and visual products.
• Use R, Python, Tableau, Excel, and other appropriate tools to produce accurate, engaging charts, maps, dashboards, tables, and other visual products.
• Build and maintain Tableau dashboards and other tools that allow users to explore country, regional, programmatic, and financial patterns.
• Deliver both recurring reporting products and rapid-response analyses while maintaining accuracy, consistency, documentation, and attention to detail.
• Build reproducible workflows and reusable templates, including documented code, source references, quality checks, and editable products that can be updated efficiently and used by other team members.
• Collaborate with epidemiologists,…