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\nSenior Research Scientist \u2013 1 post<\/p>\n
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\nPrincipal Investigator \/ Project Leader\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\nDar es Salaam<\/p>\n
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\n20th\u00a0August, 2025<\/p>\n
Institute Overview\u00a0
\nIfakara Health Institute (IHI)\u00a0is a leading research organization in Africa with a strong track record in developing, testing and validating innovations for health. Driven by a core strategic mandate for research, training and services, the Institute\u2019s work now spans a wide spectrum, covering biomedical and ecological sciences, intervention studies, health-systems research, service delivery and policy translation.\u00a0
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\nPosition Summary\u00a0
\nIfakara Health Institute (IHI)\u00a0is seeking a\u00a0Postdoc Researcher\u00a0with advanced modelling skills will contribute to the\u00a0Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) East Africa (EA) Node\u2019s\u00a0mission and objectives of developing and employing cutting-edge advanced geospatial analytical architectures to understand the risks and estimating the burden of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria, assessing the impact of interventions across various levels and settings at global, regional and national to provide the National Malaria Control Programmes (NMCPs) with the quality evidence to guide optimal allocation of resources in malaria endemic countries.
\nThe post-docs are expected to follow coding and data-management standards, develop methodologies that can be utilized by others within the team and\/or used in a complex analytical pipeline. As a scientific achievement, postdocs should take leadership in the preparation of scientific reports and journal articles for publication of research findings from their work in open access journals but also contribute to the team communication strategies.
\nThis role will also involve collaboration with a wide range of malaria stakeholders, translating model outputs to NMCPs and communicating the utility to the malaria decision, building and strengthening analytical skills to others through training, mentoring and supervision.
\nDuties and Responsibilities
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To provide statistical expertise in development and implementation of spatiotemporal models to respond to a variety of malaria research questions related to risk estimations, estimating of morbidity and mortality, understanding transmission profiles, and optimizing the impact of interventions.
\nTo guide others and contribute to the best presentation of outputs from analysis, interpretation of results and relevant conclusions.
\nManage own academic research and administrative activities, including small-scale project management to coordinate multiple aspects of the work to meet deadlines.
\nLead collaboration and engagements with NMCPs to translate and communicate MAP\u2019s modelling efforts, products, and outputs to foster utilization and uptake.
\nWork with the data scientist and data engineering team on creating data-pipelines, setting up computation infrastructure and managing NMCP\u2019s data and outputs requests.
\nWork collaboratively with other scientists within the wider MAP group to produce estimates of malaria, acting as a source of information and advice to other members of the group.
\nApply due diligence by scrutinizing model results for all project deliverables, reviewing and refining theories as appropriate.
\nMaintain rigorous data- and code management practices, including thorough documentation and version control, to ensure data replicability and cross-compatibility with past and future MAP products.
\nContribute ideas for new research projects and for generating research income.
\nContribute to and, as appropriate, lead, in the preparation of scientific reports and journal articles for publication of research findings from this work in open access journals.
\nPresent the research findings from this work at selected regional and international conferences and meetings.
\nTravel to collaborators in different MECs, Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia.
\nTake reasonable care for your own safety and health and avoid harming the safety and health of others through any act or omission at work.
\nIdentify and assess workplace hazards and apply hazard controls.
\nReport every workplace injury, illness or near miss, no matter how insignificant they seem.
\nAbide by institutional policies and procedures.<\/p>\n
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\nQualification and Experience<\/p>\n
PhD in biostatistics, mathematics, or a similar quantitative discipline with epidemiological knowhow.
\nExpertise in Bayesian modelling using Gaussian processes with demonstrable understanding of the issues arising from scaling these models to a global scale, validation, assessing performance and sensitivity analysis.
\nExperience of multi-metric analysis and covariate selection in the context of modelling large and complex data with spatial correlations.
\nExperience of state-of-the-art statistical software libraries such as INLA, TMB or similar packages.
\nDemonstrable commitment to using best practices in writing code, including the use of source control, code documentation\/repositories, and coding standards.
\nExperience of working with national disease programmes, managing relationships with senior stakeholders, data-owners, and collaborators. applicants will be contacted for interview.
\nApplicants from Africa, especially females and those from malaria-endemic countries, are strongly encouraged to apply.
\nExperience in research design and implementation, analyzing routine health data in LMICs hence good understanding of challenges on data utilization and quality issues in low resource settings.
\nAbility to manage own academic research, mentoring junior staff, define and meet milestones on time.
\nDemonstrable evidence of having worked successfully within a collaborative, team-based research setting.
\nAn understanding of the malaria epidemiology and public health surveillance.
\nTrack record of scientific publications in high quality peer-reviewed journals in the areas of epidemiology, modelling or health system research.
\nExperience of working with NMCPs, understanding of malaria surveillance including using DHIS2.
\nKnowledge and experience in working with ministries of health in LMICs, funding agencies and bilateral organizations.
\nExperience in developing and delivering training for different audiences.
\nKnowledge of other languages including Swahili, French, Spanish, Portuguese.<\/p>\n
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\n\u00a0Skills and Competencies<\/p>\n
Excellent communication skills (oral and written) in both professional and courteous manner.
\nProficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., R\/Python, Stata), knowledge of other statistical software and data visualization applications.<\/p>\n
Remuneration \u00a0
\nAn attractive and competitive remuneration package will be offered to successful candidates as per IHI salary scales.<\/p>\n
Equal Opportunity
\nIHI is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit intentional biases or discrimination and harassment of any kind at the work place and during recruitment. All employment decisions are based solely on job requirements and individual qualifications, and our recruitment process is governed by the labour laws of Tanzania.
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