Pact is an international nonprofit that works in nearly 40 countries building solutions for human development that are evidence-based, data-driven and owned by the communities we serve. Founded in 1971, Pact works with partners to build resilience, improve accountability, and strengthen knowledge and skills for sustainable social impact.

Programs – Pact strives for a world where all people are heard, capable, and vibrant.

The Programs Team helps realize this objective by bridging program management, technical support, and business development, enabling Pact to achieve its global strategy. We ensure program excellence through continuous learning, monitoring and evaluation and provide organizational and industry-wide thought leadership by leveraging a complementary set of cross-functional, multi-disciplinary skills, expertise, and experiences.

The Programs team: influences progressive change through the development and implementation of global and regional strategies and business plans; supports advancement of innovative solutions; pursues new business opportunities; and drives effective internal and external engagement to maximize Pact’s impact across the globe.

Across all aspects of its role, the Programs Department adheres to and promotes a culture of inclusion, accountability, and respect.

Pact seeks an experienced Senior Research and Learning Advisor for the anticipated USAID Madagascar Access Miahy Activity.

USAID Access Miahy’s goal is to accelerate sustainable reductions in maternal, neonatal and child morbidity and mortality through increased access and availability of quality primary health care (PHC) services.

Access Miahy will continue building the capacity of Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) actors and other relevant stakeholders at district, facility and community levels to design, develop, manage, deliver, monitor and evaluate health services and programs aligned with the intervention packages in their catchment areas.

USAID Access Miahy is anticipated to be a $50-$99M cooperative agreement; the anticipated release date is August 16, 2024, with an anticipated award date of October 31, 2024.

This position is subject to the project award.

This position is anticipated to be based in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

The Senior Research and Learning Advisor provides strategic guidance, vision, and management for successful program research, evaluation and learning. The Advisor will collaborate with technical teams to ensure utilization of evidence-based activities; and will be responsible for cultivating a culture of data use for decision-making and learning throughout all levels of the project. This position will apply intentional integration of robust learning within program activities to ensure capture and dissemination of program successes and learnings.

This position will supervise regional CLA Officers while collaborating closely with the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Manager on development and implementation of the program’s research, evaluation and learning agendas.

This position reports to the Director, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning.

The specific duties to be carried out by the successful candidate are:

Operationalize USAID’s Collaboration, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Approach

• Identify and prioritize internal and external teams and stakeholders for strategic collaboration.
• Create systematic collaboration and learning touchpoints throughout the project including routine pause & reflect opportunities for collaborative review of data and learnings.

• Bachelor’s degree (social science, international development, public health, evaluation, statistics, or economics) and 8 years’ relevant experience and experience.

• Experience with DHIS2 platform and mobile data collection software.
• Experience in utilizing gender and social inclusion sensitive indicators and analysis.
• Malagasy nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.