• R4D seeks a highly motivated and dynamic Senior Program Associate to play a key role in the Market Shaping Practice to support the quantitative and qualitative market analysis and solution development for projects focused on expanding access to maternal nutrition commodities and maternal, newborn, and child health commodities. The Senior Program Associate is vital in conducting research, testing hypotheses, generating solutions, and engaging with global and country stakeholders.
• If that work ignites your imagination, we’d love to tell you more and explore how we can work together!

Opportunity:

• Results for Development (R4D) is seeking a highly motivated and dynamic Senior Program Associate to provide technical support to the Market Shaping Practice’s global work in Maternal Newborn and Child Health and Nutrition products. As a Senior Program Associate, you will help to conduct high-quality research and analysis for new and ongoing projects to support efforts towards identifying holistic barriers in markets, generating evidence, and designing creative solutions to address identified barriers related to products that address maternal and child wasting including but not limited to microbiome-directed ready to use therapeutic food, balanced energy protein supplements and small quantity- lipid-based nutrient supplements. As part of all this work, you will help to manage new and existing stakeholder relationships at both the country and global levels across the public and private sectors, and effectively communicate our approach and impact.
• A successful Market Shaping SPA will be highly motivated and passionate about our projects; a creative problem-solver; have strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills; and have a commitment to excellence and producing results. Our team is resourceful, responsible, tenacious, mission-driven, and always has a positive attitude. We hope that you value these traits as much as we do!

Responsibilities

Qualifications:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Conduct qualitative and quantitative research and analysis to identify market barriers to product introduction or scale up,
• Support design of solutions via hypothesis-driven approach to develop recommendations for global and country level stakeholders,
• Help to develop analytic and written deliverables that synthesize information effectively and communicate key findings and policy recommendations from research and analyses to internal and external audiences,
• Execute project workplans and activities in a high-quality and timely manner,
• Engage with a wide range of domestic and international stakeholders,
• Work with country-based colleagues or consultants to onboard them to our project and test hypotheses with stakeholders,
• Assist in the development of knowledge management and communication strategies to promote the dissemination and uptake of our work,
• Support business development efforts (in collaboration with market shaping team members and across R4D teams) to mobilize resources to finance new opportunities for impact.
• Bachelor’s degree with 3 years’ relevant work experience OR Master’s degree with 1 year of relevant work experience in public health, economics, international development, business, or other related field of study.
• Public, non-profit, or private sector experience in health commodity supply, quantification, procurement, distribution, financing, or regulation preferred, but not required.
• Experience working (or supporting work) in LMICs (Low and Middle Income Countries) preferred, but not required.
• Genuinely passionate about markets-based approaches to drive sustainable impact.
• Demonstrated track record of analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, and independently developing analytical products.
• Ability to think and solve problems in a structured and logical manner.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders in multicultural environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including demonstrated ability to develop compelling presentationsand written reports.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a geographically disbursed team, including working across a wide range of time zones, and deliver high-quality results within a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Willingness to periodically travel domestically and internationally, per project need
• Fluency in oral and written English.