Senior Technical Advisor, Data Use and Decision Science
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Resolve to Save LivesPublic health
Location: US, UK, Rwanda, Nigeria, India, France, Ethiopia, DRC, Ability to work in time zones that provide significant overlap with partner countries across Africa (e.g., WAT / CAT / EAT)ContractSenior
Salary120,000 - 135,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Languages
- Fluency in English is required; Proficiency in French or Portuguese is highly desirable
- Experience
- At least 10 years of experience in infectious disease surveillance and analytics, public health emergency management, or equivalent experience
- Required Skills
- R
Requirements
- Master’s degree or higher in a relevant field such as public health, epidemiology, informatics, or statistics; a relevant PhD is a plus.
- At least 10 years of experience in infectious disease surveillance and analytics, public health emergency management, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing, producing, and implementing end-to-end public health information products, such as epidemiological bulletins and outbreak situation reports.
- Ability to translate complex data into decision-ready outputs and support sustainable handover through documentation and standard operating procedures.
- Experience designing and delivering capacity-building training programs for public health professionals.
- Ability to mentor multidisciplinary in-country teams and support progressive knowledge transfer and local ownership of analytical workflows.
- Proficiency in R and R Markdown or Quarto for data management, analysis, and automated information product generation.
- Familiarity with DHIS2 is an advantage.
- Ability to apply systems thinking and design thinking approaches.
- Fluency in English; French or Portuguese proficiency is highly desirable.
- Ability to work remotely with significant overlap with partner-country time zones across Africa and convene in person occasionally.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20%.
Responsibilities
- Develop epidemic intelligence products, including outbreak situation reports, epidemiological bulletins, and executive dashboards, and support automated production pipelines.
- Map existing systems, data, and decision-making needs with in-country counterparts to identify implementation priorities and support future surveillance architecture.
- Provide hands-on technical mentorship, capacity building, and knowledge transfer to strengthen local analytical and decision-support capabilities.
- Train in-country teams to use DHIS2, Emergency Management Systems, R, and R Markdown for data management, analytics, GIS, and data product generation.
- Develop country workplans and budgets for Collaborative Surveillance, coordinate implementation, and prepare strategic reports for leadership and donors.
- Coordinate with global and country-level partners to streamline and align Collaborative Surveillance initiatives.
- Provide technical oversight and methodologies to evaluate Collaborative Surveillance initiatives.
- Investigate and develop use cases for wastewater surveillance, multiplex sero-surveillance, genomic surveillance, and sample registration systems.
- Explore AI, contextual data, and advanced analytical methods to forecast risks and outbreaks, and synthesize multi-country learnings into dissemination products.
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