Job Information

Our team is looking to welcome a mature, motivated, mission-driven Health Econometrician to join Khushi Baby’s M&E to support maximization of data driven insights, specific to cost-effectiveness and econometric modeling, from the CHIP platform.

Responsibilities:

• Develop pre-analysis plans for cost-effectiveness evaluation of interventions, experimental and quasi-experimental studies of new interventions, econometric modeling of interventions and programs, time series analysis of key performance indicators across national health programs
• Work with field, policy, and development teams to ensure appropriate collection of key performance indicators and visualization of econometric indicators on the CHIP dashboard
• Perform data cleaning, completeness analysis, imputation, descriptive analysis, outlier analysis according to the pre-analysis plan
• Conduct advanced modeling analyses required to identify important spatio-temporal factors for health econometric outcomes
• Conduct advanced modeling analyses required to identify impact of interventions on health behaviors and outcomes
• Engage in evidence-based intervention design with policy, product, and field teams to systematically address areas of improvement
• Contribute towards academic manuscripts for government and peer-review highlighting research findings
• Build capacity building within the organization to incorporate MEL framework based reporting and Theory-of-Change focused work plan design
• Engage and coordinate with stakeholders, including state and central government, development partners, communities and other implementing partners
• Support in recruitment activities of the M&E Unit
• Contribute to formulation of pre-analysis plans for epidemiological research and MEL activities
• Identify relevant public and private data sets required for analysis
• Support policy, field, and development teams to design pipelines for collection and visualization of relevant factors and outcomes in the CHIP application and dashboard
• Perform data cleaning, completeness analysis, imputation, descriptive analysis, outlier analysis according to the pre-analysis plan
• Conduct advanced modeling analyses required to identify important spatio-temporal factors which explain underlying disease distribution
• Conduct advanced modeling analyses required to identify impact of interventions on health behaviors and outcomes
• Generate visualizations of the results
• Support product team in dashboard design
• Contribute towards academic manuscripts for government and peer-review highlighting research findings
• Support in recruitment activities of the M&E Unit

Required Skills:

• Completion of PHD degree from reputable institution in the field of biostatistics, with relevant coursework / experience in population science, demography, public health, epidemiology, experimental design, and report writing
• Minimum of five years of professional working experience in the role of an biostatistician
• Proof of published academic work within the last two years in the field of public health
• Proficiency in R or Python; geospatial analysis software (e.g. ArcGIS, QGIS)
• Proficiency with multivariate linear and logistic regression, time series analyses, survival analyses, principal component and factor analyses, quasi-experimental designs, RCT trial designs (clustered, step-wedged, randomized multi-arm bandits), MCMC analysis

You’ll stand out with

• Prior experience working with government officials and NHM data sets
• Prior experience working with Big Data (multi-year studies, 10,000+ beneficiary panels)
• Prior experience working with mHealth / digital health projects
• Excellence in English writing and communication
• Demonstrated work / experimentation in prompt-engineering for tools like ChatGPT

Remuneration

12-18 LPA, commensurate with skills and experience.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Free medical second opinions from CEO
• Flexible vacation scheduling
• Flexible work policies for those menstruating, needing time off for mental health, needing time for grievance of a loved one, religious fasting, etc.
• Monthly field visits, annual retreat
• Make an impact through your daily work

How to apply

To apply for the above position, please send your detailed CV with a writing sample, specifically mentioning the "post applied for" in subject line to [email protected]

Khushi Baby is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, religion, caste, creed, age, disability, income-level, or belief system and we strongly encourage applications from those who have overcome hardships in their lives.