Job title: Executive Consultant

Location: Nashville, Tennessee   

Duration: 12 Months

Description:

Essential Job Tasks: 

Data and Evaluation Coordination Activities 
•    Work with management team to develop and implement evaluation and quality improvement strategies, tools, and data collection plans to track outcomes. 
•    Work with management team to incorporate data/evaluation and quality improvement into program planning, reporting, and staff meetings. 
•    Stay abreast of, and evaluate, current trends and practices in public health research and evaluation. 
•    Make recommendations to ensure effective and efficient data collection, dissemination, and reporting. 
•    Produce periodic program reports for program managers and senior management for program management/evaluation purposes; assist with data interpretation. 
•    Ensure integrity of data reporting on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis by performing data integrity checks and working with program staff on data entry problems. 
•    Troubleshoot and ensure that data is being collected and entered in accordance with relevant protocols and evaluation plans. 
•    Maintain complete and adequate files, records and documentation. 
•    Maintain and update database and data collection procedure manuals. 
Leadership Activities 
•    Coordinate data collection and entry responsibilities among relevant staff. 
•    Coordinate evaluation tool implementation, collection, and reporting. 
•    Leads program evaluation and quality improvement training and orientation of new program staff. 
•    Works with internal and external stakeholders to develop a culture of quality improvement.  Internal and external stakeholders include regulatory entities and academic partners who interface with SSI and CEDEP on specific projects.

Minimum Qualifications:  
•    Master’s degree or equivalent work experience in public health, community development, or a related field of study. 
•    At least three years of experience developing and implementing evaluation strategies including surveys, focus groups, stakeholder interviews. 
•    At least three years of experience analyzing data and creating reports using available data. 
Desired Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities: 
•    Demonstrated experience in complex data collection, entry and analysis, including comparative analysis using publicly available data sources. 
•    Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills and attention to detail required. 
•    Proficiency in Microsoft Office and other data entry platforms including online systems. Ability to work under strict deadlines and time constraints, and to establish and manage competing priorities. 
•    Demonstrated ability to lead with no formal authority; ability to gain support and cooperation of staff for data entry and evaluation purposes. 
•    Ability to handle confidential information in accordance with policies and procedures. 
•    Ability to work with minimal supervision, both independently and as an effective member of an inter-programmatic team. 
•    Ability to work with people with varying degrees of computer knowledge. 
•    Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills. 
•    Excellent communication skills in both oral and written communications.
•    Ability to handle deadlines, details and complexity. 
•    Well organized. 
•    Good analytical and troubleshooting skills.