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Multi country Statistician

INDEPTH Effectiveness and Safety Studies (INESS)

Accra, Ghana

Organisation: INDEPTH Network
Sector: Statistics
Job Level: Senior
Location: Accra Ghana

Opportunity Details
INDEPTH is an independent, non-governmental not-for-profit international organisation currently working with 37 community-based health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) sites in 19 countries in Africa, Asia, Central America and Oceania, to provide health, social and demographic data and research to enable developing countries set, among others, health priorities and policies, based on scientific evidence.

The INDEPTH Effectiveness and Safety Studies (INESS) is a project of the INDEPTH Network and comprises a number of autonomous research groups, working together to plan and execute a programme of work that will provide the needed information on effectiveness and safety of ACTs to the national malaria programme managers for policy making.

The INDEPTH/INESS core management will provide the administrative support for the whole platform. We are seeking a statistician with a strong track record in doing multi-country analysis in particularly related to DSS data. The Statistician will be based at the INDEPTH headquarters in Accra, Ghana. The multi-country statistician will work closely with the INDEPTH statistician together with the Principal Investigator, and Project Manager of INESS. He or she will be expected to travel occasionally to the different partner institutions and DSS sites under INESS.

Tasks/Responsibilities:
Overall goal /responsibility
Coordinate and lead all the analysis work related to the INESS study.

Specific Tasks
Working with the INESS task teams and sites, the statistician will;
Support a team of statisticians from about 8 sites in 4 Africa countries to generate site and country specific data on safety and effectiveness of antimalarial drugs.
Collate and generate INESS wide data

on safety and effectiveness of antimalarial drugs
Support the analysis population based information to support the safety and effectiveness data in each site and on the INESS wide platform
Provide technical backstopping for statistician based in the 8 sites
Organize relevant INESS Investigator’s meeting and other meetings required to discuss issues related to statistics;
Ensure and produce consolidated reports of analysed data from the different sites/tasks teams on regular basis;
Undertake other tasks related to areas of statistics as required by INESS secretariat necessary for the successful implementation of the project.

Qualifications/Personal requirements:
A scientific background with PhD in Statistics, demographics and /or medicine with at least 3-5 years experience
Or an MA/Msc in Statistics, demographics and /or medicine with good track record of at least 10 years
Experience in analysis of multi country project s and or/ safety data and /or) Demographic Surveillance data would be useful.
Experience working with people of different cultural, religious, political backgrounds, and those at community level will be an asset.
Excellent team building, IT, presentation, written and spoken communication skills in English.
Knowledge of French and/or Portuguese would be an advantage.

Submission Instructions
Interested candidates should send an application with full curriculum vitae by e-mail including the names of 3 referees to

Dr Aziza Mwisongo,

INESS Project Manager,

INDEPTH Network Secretariat,

Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road,

Kijitonyama,

COSTECH Building,

P.O Box 78373,

email address;

aziza.mwisongo@indepth-network.org

Deadline: August 15th, 2009.

Female applicants are encouraged to apply.
Date of interview will be communicated to

the candidates who will be short listed