Institute Overview

• Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is 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’s work now spans a wide spectrum, covering biomedical and ecological sciences, intervention studies, health-systems research, service delivery and policy translation.Position Summary
• Ifakara Health Institute is seeking a qualified Research Officer who will be stationed at Dar es Salaam Office to support Map EA Node Project, reporting to the Senior Research Scientist . The Research Officer will play a significant and strategic role of continuously assisting core researchers improving the data science capability while contributing to the development of analytical models, preparation of input data, deployment of workflows, and dissemination of results, including writing reports, papers for peer reviewed publication, poster preparations and engaging with relevant collaborators. The ROs in addition to playing the supporting role, are expected to lead, design and implement small projects with deliverables contributing to the overall objective and scope of MAP project. Applicants from Africa, especially females and those from malaria-endemic countries, are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibility:

• Undertake and support literature reviews, data searches and data extraction, including extraction of needed metrics for modelling work from published literature and official reports
• Obtain, manage, and conduct preliminary processing and analysis on a variety of datasets.
• Utilize software including Excel, ArcGIS/QGIS, STATA, and R, Python and others to examine, manipulate, analyze and process data, create graphs, reports, maps, and, creating other visualizations of results.
• Select, follow, and adapt data extraction and manipulation protocols.
• Promote the best practice on use of data and conduct analytics by being responsible with others for general IT housekeeping, maintenance of back-ups, documentation of protocols, data processing procedures, and review of procedures.
• Take reasonable care for your own safety and health and avoid harming the safety and health of others through any act or omission at work.
• Identify and assess workplace hazards and apply hazard controls
• Report every workplace injury, illness or near miss, no matter how insignificant they seem.
• Abide by institutional policies and procedures.

Skill :

• Strong computer, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent levels of numeracy as evidenced through your experience and/or  education with the ability to use numerical analysis methods and perform computations.
• Demonstrated ability to keep attention to details, self-scrutinize outputs.
• Proven project and time management abilities.
• Demonstrated capacity to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team with minimal supervision.
• An understanding of the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases such as malaria and other infectious diseases, public health.
• Ability and experience to write codes in R-studio, develop packages and dashboards.
• Interest for  career development including joining MSc or PhD program in advanced modeling.
• Must adhere to IHI core Values.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written) in both professional and courteous manner.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., R/Python, Stata), knowledge of other statistical software and data visualization applications.

Qualification Required:

• Minimum requirement is completion of a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject area i.e., statistics, mathematics, data/computer science/engineering, or similar quantitative discipline.

Experience :

• Experience in managing, analyzing, interpreting, wrangling and manipulating data using a variety of software platforms; Skills on use of R software is essential for this role.
• Experience in development and/or delivering training for different audiences.
• Experience of working with spatial data and geometry files using GIS tools.

Preferred Language Skill :

• Ability to communicate (verbal and written) in the English language.
• Knowledge of other languages including French, Spanish, Portuguese is an advantage.Remuneration
• An attractive and competitive remuneration package shall be offered to the successful candidates as per IHI salary scales.

• Undertake and support literature reviews, data searches and data extraction, including extraction of needed metrics for modelling work from published literature and official reports
• Obtain, manage, and conduct preliminary processing and analysis on a variety of datasets.
• Utilize software including Excel, ArcGIS/QGIS, STATA, and R, Python and others to examine, manipulate, analyze and process data, create graphs, reports, maps, and, creating other visualizations of results.
• Select, follow, and adapt data extraction and manipulation protocols.
• Promote the best practice on use of data and conduct analytics by being responsible with others for general IT housekeeping, maintenance of back-ups, documentation of protocols, data processing procedures, and review of procedures.
• Take reasonable care for your own safety and health and avoid harming the safety and health of others through any act or omission at work.
• Identify and assess workplace hazards and apply hazard controls
• Report every workplace injury, illness or near miss, no matter how insignificant they seem.
• Abide by institutional policies and procedures.

• Strong computer, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent levels of numeracy as evidenced through your experience and/or education with the ability to use numerical analysis methods and perform computations.
• Demonstrated ability to keep attention to details, self-scrutinize outputs.
• Proven project and time management abilities.
• Demonstrated capacity to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team with minimal supervision.
• An understanding of the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases such as malaria and other infectious diseases, public health.
• Ability and experience to write codes in R-studio, develop packages and dashboards.
• Interest for career development including joining MSc or PhD program in advanced modeling.
• Must adhere to IHI core Values.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written) in both professional and courteous manner.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., R/Python, Stata), knowledge of other statistical software and data visualization applications.

• Minimum requirement is completion of a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject area i.e., statistics, mathematics, data/computer science/engineering, or similar quantitative discipline.