Evaluation Specialist (COVID-19)

Evaluation Specialist (COVID-19)

Peers and Partners, Inc. (Peers) is a management consulting and professional services firm headquartered in Atlanta, GA. We work with federal government and commercial clients to address some of today’s biggest health issues. Peers is focused on fostering idealistic experiences with our clients through shared exchanges in providing strategic communications, business process optimization/re-engineering, learning improvement and diffusion, research and health sciences, portfolio management, and supportive technology. We are more than Peers, We’re Partners ready to help!

We are seeking an Evaluation Specialist who has experience supporting public and global health initiatives for the federal government, commercial, and non-governmental organizations. Considered candidates will have the opportunity to support our nation’s public health initiatives, develop and evaluate effective, appropriate communication efforts focused on Novel Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19).

Applicants who submit their resume to www.peers-partners.com/careers/ agree to be contacted through our recruitment channels about various job vacancies in the future.

General Duties:

•  Provide input on the design of communication efforts for international travelers to East Asia and other countries with COVID cases/outbreaks for the prevention of imported COVID and its spread in the United States.
• Support assessment of target audience knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors (KAPBs) regarding COVID-19 risk and prevention, as well as audience values, concerns and communication preferences.
• Conduct primary formative evaluation (community listening sessions or group discussions) exploring barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 prevention and control behaviors, COVID-19-associated fears and stigma, information and support needs, trusted sources of information, and preferred channels, formats and settings for reaching audiences with agency information.
• Conduct message-testing evaluations of audience reactions to content, tone and images.
• Develop an evaluation plan designed to track process and outcome measures, including implementation, reach and audience reactions to allow for strategic redirection as needed
• Implement process and outcome evaluations of COVID-19 communication efforts.
• Develop draft and final evaluation reports.
• Lead stakeholders through the strategy and process to define evaluation needs.
• Participate in needs assessments, environmental scans, impact assessments, meta-analysis and cost- benefit or cost-effectiveness analyses.
• Design detailed program logic models.
• Lead the OMB/IRB process for data collection as required.
• Responsible for the writing and editing of routine and ad-hoc research and evaluation reports.
• Conduct systematic and descriptive literature reviews.
• Presents findings, results, and recommendations to client and leadership using appropriate language and visual representations of data.
• Remain abreast of research and evaluation trends to ensure valid approaches and strategies are current.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of research and evaluation methods and practices
• Ability to perform complex analytical studies and interrupt results
• Ability to effectively communicate in writing and orally
• Well versed in Microsoft Office products
• Experience balancing multiple projects with strong attention to detail, organization, and efficient time management skills.
• Familiarity and experience with, as well as a deep understanding of the cultural norms and communication styles of target audiences to ensure the cultural sensitivity of the creative and evaluation approach.

Required Education and Experience:

 PhD or MPH in public health, behavioral health sciences, social science, or related field
 Minimum 4 years of experience post-graduation
 Experience with data analysis and visualization software including SPSS, SAS, STATA, R, ArcGIS, NVivo, Atlas.ti, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Publisher, MS Word, Tableau, etc.
 Proficient using quantitative and qualitative data collection and analyses methodologies

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:
Public Health: 4 years (Required)

Education:
Master's (Required)

Work authorization:
United States (Required)

Work Location:
One location

Benefits:
None

Schedule:
Monday to Friday
Day shift

Company's website:
www.peers-partners.com

Apply Here: Peers & Partners Evaluation Specialist Job