JOB TITLE: Epidemiologist, Research Associate
JOB LOCATION: Nigeria
JOB DETAILS:
Analytical and Surveillance Support:
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- Design and implement operational research projects: identifying knowledge gaps, defining research questions, protocol development, survey and sampling design, IRB submission, formulating training material, training and monitoring survey data collectors, data management, analysis, and dissemination;
- Organize and merge available data, assessing its quality and suitability for analysis, data management, conduct statistical analyses (generally descriptive), and present data in the form of charts and maps;
- Synthesize results through high-quality presentations, reports, and publications and translate them to national and sub-national partners to support evidence-based decision making, as well as internally and externally at international venues;
- In collaboration with country teams, provide analytical support to the National Malaria Program and its Information Management and Surveillance Units to help strengthen the new malaria surveillance platform, including improving data collection, data management, analysis, and data visualization;
- Provide technical capacity building and ongoing support to staff members involved in monitoring and evaluation activities or study implementation;
- Any other tasks identified.
Programmatic and Operational Support:
- Drive and support implementation of projects related to malaria epidemiology, intervention and surveillance, as required; driving activities and following up with key stakeholders as appropriate;
- Proactively anticipate technical challenges to project implementation, assess alternatives and propose solutions for surveillance related challenges;
- Support the development of national and sub-national level training materials with a focus on analytical content (e.g. data management best practices, data quality processes, online data collection tools), and surveillance strengthening;
- Leverage analytical expertise to improve regional work products;
- Develop and conduct monitoring and evaluation for ongoing projects, including support for the monitoring and evaluation of existing and new surveillance platforms in collaboration with the health informatics malaria team at CHAI;
- Provide ad-hoc programmatic support to country teams in service of government partners; this includes but is not limited to: program material review (e.g., training, data collection tools), report generation and program data analysis;
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key country stakeholders across government, non-governmental organizations, and local academic institutions, with support from program managers.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology or related field
- Practical experience in the provision of technical or project management support for public health interventions to government programs in developing countries specifically in surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, and strengthening information systems
- Proven experience conducting and managing surveys
- Proven experience in the epidemiological analysis of health data; including but not limited to statistical and geospatial analysis programming experience (R, SAS, STATA, ArcGIS and/or other relevant software)
- High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and internet applications
- Experience working and communicating with government officials and other external partners
- Ability to work independently in remote and unstructured settings and to adapt to new environments and challenges
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills and
- Enthusiasm for applying research methods to solve global health problems;
- Willingness to travel (40-50% of time).
Advantages:
- Experience working in fast-paced, output-oriented environments
- Knowledge of malaria and/or other major global infectious disease problems
- Experience living or working in resource-limited settings
- Experience working with a decentralized team
- Experience working with surveillance platforms (e.g. DHIS2), data collection tools (e.g. ODK) and/or data visualization applications (e.g. Tableau)
- 1+ years of working experience in public health programs.
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Deadline: June 10, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Guest Service Agent / Associate |