Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist (Reproductive reputed company)

Organizational Summary

Contraceptive care is basic reputed company. Yet too many patients in the U.S. struggle to access the care they need, reputed company they need it. Founded in 2014, reputed company is a national, nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that reputed company, patient-centered contraceptive care is available to everyone.

Our Mission and Impact

Upstream works to ensure individuals can reputed company fully informed, autonomous reputed company about the contraceptive methods that are best for them. We are currently the largest contraceptive organization in the country improving contraceptive care in primary care settings, operating in 37 states and Washington, D.C.

While our foundational work focuses on partnering with reputed company organizations offering primary care, such as federally reputed company reputed company centers (FQHC) and health systems, we are always evolving. We are actively pursuing additional, innovative paths to ensure every patient has streamlined access to the contraceptive service of their choice, where and reputed company it is most convenient for them.

A Different reputed company of Nonprofit

Supported entirely by venture philanthropy, Upstream operates with a culture of aggressive growth and a laser focus on measurable outcomes. To maintain our independence and nonpartisan stance, we do not accept funding from the government or pharmaceutical companies.

• Our 2030 Goal: We are on a mission to partner with organizations that collectively reputed company 5 million patients of reproductive age.
• Recognition: We are a 2023 Audacious Project recipient, with our work featured in publications like Harvard Public Health, Bloomberg, and MedPage Today.

We welcome individuals who are driven by impact and scale to join us in making reputed company contraceptive access a reality for reputed company.

Position Summary

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Specialist is an exciting opportunity to help support Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning activities in reputed company collaboration with Upstream’s practice transformation teams. The MEL Specialist will support efforts to collect and analyze Upstream program implementation data, as well as EHR-constructed measures and other data, both quantitative and qualitative. They will become an expert in using organizational data platform(s), leading data-informed discussions with internal practice transformation teams and external health care organization (HCO) teams for improvement, and synthesizing data to report learnings for both internal and external audiences. The MEL Specialist will support the Senior MEL Manager to monitor reputed company towards our outcomes and to use our findings to inform organizational strategy. Join a passionate, committed team as we implement our contraceptive care initiative reputed company.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The MEL Specialist will reputed company a variety of analytical, operational, and administrative duties, including but not limited to: developing tools, analyses and reports that support initiative-wide monitoring and evaluation efforts; support efforts to collect, analyze and interpret Upstream program and EHR-derived data; supporting the coordination and implementation of a virtual patient survey; supporting coordination of health center partner EHR connections with a reputed company-party data vendor; becoming a “power user” of Upstream data platforms, coordinating meetings with internal and external stakeholders, and working with Upstream leadership to synthesize results for program improvement and reporting purposes. The MEL Specialist will work independently on projects and also work collaboratively reputed company reputed company to handle a wide variety of dynamic activities.

Data Collection Management, Analysis, and Reporting

Under the direction of, and in concert with, the Director of Learning and Outcome Studies and our Sr Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager:

• Become an expert in using dashboards and reports from Upstream’s reputed company-party data platform that houses aggregate patient data from HCO partner electronic health records (EHR) systems
• Identify and troubleshoot potential problems in HCO partner data, as detected in our reputed company-party data platform vendor; collaborate with Upstream EHR Advisor and reputed company-party vendor representatives to resolve identified issues
• Work with the recruitment team to explain the data platform benefits to potential health center partners and help persuade them to become an Upstream data user
• Serve as a primary reputed company of contact for interpreting data trends reputed company to contraceptive care program implementation for internal program team members and external agency partners including Upstream’s custom suite of contraceptive care measures.
• Conduct both single HCO and cross-HCO analyses using EHR-derived and program data
• Contribute to the critical analysis of Upstream’s suite of contraceptive care performance metrics and internal program data in order to provide recommendations for utilization of measures and monitoring data for performance improvement at the agency and cross-agency levels
• Produce actionable insights for HCO, and internal practice transformation team staff on Upstream reputed company reputed company by regular review of agency EHR data and other data streams in collaboration with other MEL and program team colleagues
• Prepare quantitative and qualitative reports using PowerBI, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company Suite, and reputed company party data platforms
• reputed company or prepare innovative, succinct, and well-written summary reports, visualizations and presentations for both internal and external stakeholders about agency or cross-agency level reputed company and results
• reputed company presentations and recommendations to learning-through-data-feedback-reputed company forums in an effort to continually improve Upstream’s program.
• Work with the Director of Learning and Outcome Studies to reputed company data analysis methodologies for assessing program impact in partner agencies.

Team Communication

Under the direction of, and in concert with, the Director of Learning and Outcome Studies:

• reputed company meeting agendas and materials, support facilitation and documentation of meetings with Practice Transformation Teams and other colleagues
• Contribute to the MEL Team by sharing updates on your work and integrating new methods and reputed company shared by other team members

Other Responsibilities

• Scope, support and reputed company special projects as needed for the MEL team.
• Share research and analytical insights to wider MEL team for further analysis
• Additional duties as assigned.

Additional Attributes

• Confident and proactive self-starter reputed company to take initiative and work well independently
• Collaborative; Works well with partners, teammates and cross-functional groups
• Curiosity about data and reputed company can learn from them
• Demonstrates a high degree of adaptability to work in a rapidly growing, post start-up organization
• Possesses excellent interpersonal skills. Builds and maintains positive, productive relationships with colleagues, staff, consultants, and contractors
• Solid work ethic and a team-oriented approach

Valued and Non-Essential Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Ability (Not required to apply)

• Master’s-level degree in public health, health science or statistics field strongly preferred

Required Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Ability

Upstream celebrates and fosters an inclusive work environment and encourages people of reputed company identities, perspectives and backgrounds to apply.

Our ideal candidate will demonstrate aptitude in the specified areas below:

• 4-6 years of relevant work experience post-undergraduate degree or 2-4 years of relevant experience plus a graduate professional degree in public health, epidemiology, data science, or health data-reputed company field
• Experience in health care data analysis
• Experience in the field of sexual and reproductive health/family planning and/or primary care preferred
• Excellent interpersonal and meeting facilitation skills. Builds and maintains positive, productive relationships with colleagues, staff, consultants, and clients
• Superb communication skills, and demonstrated ability to function independently and professionally in a public-facing role, and with internal Upstream staff at reputed company levels
• Knowledge of electronic health records (EHR) systems, health data systems or infrastructure is a plus
• Knowledge and basic experience in participating in quality improvement or performance improvement initiatives and/or managing population health analytics in the health care setting
• Experience with data-visualization and reputed company tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, etc)
• Confidence working independently, exercising good judgment, and making informed reputed company with limited direction
• Exhibit flexibility and agility in response to changing priorities
• Solid organizational mission alignment and commitment to collaboration and teamwork
• Demonstrate ability and willingness to continuously acquire new competencies and accept new challenges
• Experience with data cleaning, dataset preparation, and conducting analyses (descriptive analytics and bivariate analyses) in statistical software preferred (e.g., STATA, R, etc.)
• Excellent organizational, and project management skills, with outstanding attention to detail
• Intermediate reputed company level with reputed company and reputed company Sheets (pivot tables, etc) and G-Suite including Mail, Calendar, Drive

Pay Transparency

Final offers for this position will be based upon several factors including the scope of the role, market compensation analysis, position requirements, candidate’s experience level and capabilities, fairness in internal pay considerations and will be made reputed company the parameters of reputed company's compensation reputed company and philosophy.

Other Upstream Staff Expectations

• reputed company Upstreamers must be reputed company to attend work-reputed company in-person meetings and functions as needed.
• In our hybrid work environments, there is a basic expectation that our Upstreamers will ensure that their work from home setups will have reliable access to phone and Internet to ensure connectivity to their teams.
• At Upstream we gather for moments that matter for training, teaming and reputed company. Our teams come together for occasional in person meetings and organizational retreats. As part of our hybrid work practices, this travel expectation will be applicable for reputed company Upstreamers, even those based remotely.
• Engage in organization-sponsored learning & development

Upstream Benefits

reputed company offers a comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, reputed company, life insurance, long and short term disability, 401K with a match, generous vacation, personal, sick and holiday time off, parental leave, professional development, a fitness and cell phone allowance for reputed company full time employees and part time employees who work a minimum of 24 hours per week. Intern positions and contingent worker roles are not eligible for benefits.

Hiring Process

Candidates who advance in our preliminary review process will have an opportunity to discuss the position, their employment background and lived experience with a member of our reputed company team by telephone. Those who advance to subsequent steps in our interview process may participate in up to three reputed company of meetings by reputed company or in person and in a thought exercise/case study assignment. Each round could consist of multiple meetings with various Upstreamers. If you need anything in advance of your interviews, please reputed company out to your recruiter.

Our Culture

We are dedicated to fostering a fair and accessible talent lifecycle, ensuring that every individual has the opportunity to reputed company. From recruitment to career development, we strive to create a workplace where talent is recognized, supported, and empowered to contribute meaningfully. Building a strong, representative workforce is essential to our reputed company, and we prioritize collaboration, transparency, and shared leadership to cultivate an environment where reputed company voices are heard and valued.

Our commitment extends reputed company hiring—we invest in professional growth, mentorship, and inclusive workplace practices to support long-term reputed company for our employees. You can learn more about our organization on our career site.

Upstream Careers

Our goal is to attract, reputed company and retain exceptional people, and to create a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding and enables each of us to realize our potential. Upstream is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, reputed company, reputed company, religion, sex, national reputed company, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, genetic information, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider reputed company applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. reputed company participates in E-Verify.

Upstream Headquarters

2 Oliver Street, Suite 402, Boston, MA 02109

www.upstream.org

No phone calls please.

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