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Organization: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Country: United Kingdom
City: London
Office: LSHTM London

Research Fellow
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Salary: £40,611 to £46,119 per annum, inclusive.
Closing Date: Wednesday 18 May 2022
Reference: EPH-IDE-2022-20
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.
The Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP) monitors attitudes towards vaccines through diverse data streams and aims to detect early warning signals of confidence losses in vaccines. The VCP is actively engaged in data collection through various streams (traditional surveys, social media monitoring, etc) and is looking to increase its capacity to provide robust public health messaging to national and international policymakers and stakeholders.
The VCP is seeking to recruit one Research Fellow.
We are looking for a Research Fellow to lead the Africa Vaccine Confidence Project research collaborations and engagements by contributing to research work, managing existing relationships and partnerships across Africa to lead the Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP) Asia Pacific research and support overall VCP global research
Regularly review progress with local researchers and collaborating partners, monitoring progress towards objectives;
Engage with relevant governmental and regulatory bodies to ensure compliance with all ethical, data privacy and regulatory requirements;
Contribute to Vaccine Confidence Project content creation for the website.
The successful candidate will have a postgraduate degree, ideally a Master of International Public Health and relevant experience in managing the relationship between AU-CDC and other implementing partners. Further particulars are included in the job description.
The post is full time and fixed-term from 1 May 2022 until 30 June 2023.
The salary will be on the Academic Pathway salary scale Grade 6 in the range £40,611 – £46,119 per annum. The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary ‘Wellbeing Days’. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based Overseas in Nairobi, Kenya.
Applications should be made on-line via our website at http://jobs.lshtm.ac.uk. Online applications will be accepted by the automated system until 10pm of the closing date. Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to jobs@lshtm.ac.uk.
The supporting statement section should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet each of the selection criteria. Please provide one or more paragraphs addressing each criterion. The supporting statement is an essential part of the selection process and thus a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. An answer to any of the criteria such as “Please see attached CV” will not be considered acceptable.
Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.