RESEARCH OFFICER INTERN (3 Position(s))

Employer: Ifakara Health Institute

Location: Dar es Salaam

Number of Posts: 3

Job Summary:

Ifakara Health Institute is looking a qualified Research Officer Intern who will be based in Dar es Salaam to support Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) Node.

Responsibilities:

• Practice dissemination and research skills and capacities while actively responding to the questions from the malaria control programs (NMPs) and other malaria stakeholders from endemic countries in Africa.
• Enhance their analytical, programming.
• Perform data gathering and extraction.
• Perform data management, and visualization.
• Have opportunity to design and implement small projects with time-bound deliverables.
• Abide by institutional policies and procedures.
• Attend conferences and meetings.
• Identify and assess workplace hazards and apply hazard controls.

Desired Skills:

• Ability in using tools such as R, Python, QGIS; developing dashboards, machine learning tools.
• Ability to keep attention to details, self-scrutiny, and with time management abilities.
• Must adhere to IHI core Values.

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in relevant fields including statistics, mathematics, data science, or similar quantitative disciplines.
• Knowledge of public health, disease epidemiology, vector-borne diseases and ecology is desirable.

Preferred Language:

• Multilingual – English, Swahili, French, Portuguese.

• Practice dissemination and research skills and capacities while actively responding to the questions from the malaria control programs (NMPs) and other malaria stakeholders from endemic countries in Africa.
• Enhance their analytical, programming.
• Perform data gathering and extraction.
• Perform data management, and visualization.
• Have opportunity to design and implement small projects with time-bound deliverables.
• Abide by institutional policies and procedures.
• Attend conferences and meetings.
• Identify and assess workplace hazards and apply hazard controls.

• Ability in using tools such as R, Python, QGIS; developing dashboards, machine learning tools.
• Ability to keep attention to details, self-scrutiny, and with time management abilities.
• Must adhere to IHI core Values.

• Bachelor degree in relevant fields including statistics, mathematics, data science, or similar quantitative disciplines.
• Knowledge of public health, disease epidemiology, vector-borne diseases and ecology is desirable.