Job Title: Director of Implementation Science
Location: Abuja
Job Description
- We are seeking to recruit a Director of Implementation Science to support Operations Research and publications.
- The Director of Implementation Science will have the overall responsibility of leadership and management of the Implementation Science Unit. S/he will be responsible for making key decisions and solving problems in short timeframes while ensuring operational and project technical quality and integrity.
- The position will report to the Director of Strategic Information and manage a team of researchers and data analysts.
Key Functions
- Lead in the conceptualization and execution of relevant innovative implementation science research topics.
- Undertake advanced writing of publications, SOPs and technical papers.
- Support the Principal Investigator and technical team in scientific outputs and assisting with grant development, particularly implementation science-oriented grants such as NIH.
- Build implementation science, biostatistics and writing capacity among in-country staff. This will mean mentoring young data analysts and developing skills among other support staff.
- Generate outcome and impact evidence and develop into publications and white papers.
- Work with HQ technical leadership to integrate relevant components of implementation science.
- Support in the collection and monitoring of all projects and interpretation of findings.
- Lead the design of public health messaging and contribute to methods development for framework documents
- Actively participate and contribute to publications in peer reviewed journals and other program briefs and manuscripts
- Provide scientific and writing support for proposal preparation
- Engage in other tasks as requested by the Director, Strategic Information & Country Director.
Qualifications
Education:
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- Master of Science or Doctoral Degree in Epidemiology, Social Statistics or related field.
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
- Experience:6 – 10 years
- Prior experience in monitoring, designing, and implementing programs in health, HIV / AIDS, TB, or health systems strengthening, with demonstrated supervision experience.
- Prior experience in using electronic medical records
- Experience in impact and evaluation studies design and execution
- A familiarity with US Government Agencies and PEPFAR reporting requirements.
- Analysis and data management skills as well as demonstrated analytical skills and experience in identifying and evaluating best practices and state-of-the-art approaches to be utilized by public health projects
- Experience working in global health and in developing countries
- Experience working with statistical software platforms (R, STATA, SAS, SPSS etc.),
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
- Ability to communicate and coordinate effectively with donors, ministries of health, project partners.
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Deadline: January 20, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Scientists / Laboratory Scientists/Assistants/Attendants |