Job Description

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 to join the MoDD Africa Tanzania Country hub. The Research Officer will play a significant and strategic role of continuously assisting core researchers improving the data science and engineering capabilities 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 publications, poster preparations and engaging with relevant collaborators. The Research Officer is expected to lead, design and implement small projects with deliverables contributing to the overall objective and scope of the MoDD Africa project. Applicant must be a Tanzanian national. Females applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibility:

• Undertake and support literature reviews, data explorations 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.
• Create, document, version control and maintain robust ETL data pipelines.
• 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.
• Must adhere to IHI core Values.
• Abide by institutional policies and procedures.

Skill :

• 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 software packages and dashboards
• Interest for career development including joining MSc or PhD program in advanced modeling.
• Knowledge of other languages including Swahili, French, Spanish, Portuguese is an advantage.
• 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; Familiarity with programming languages (e.g., R, Python) or geospatial tools (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS).
• Basic experience in data analysis or modelling, preferably related to infectious diseases or public health.
• Experience of working with spatial data and geometry files using GIS tools.
• Experience in development and/or delivering training for different audiences.

Preferred Language Skill :

• Ability to communicate (verbal and written) in the English language
• Knowledge of other languages including Swahili, French, Spanish, Portuguese is an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written) in both professional and courteous manner.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 explorations 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.
• Create, document, version control and maintain robust ETL data pipelines.
• 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.
• Must adhere to IHI core Values.
• Abide by institutional policies and procedures.

• 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 software packages and dashboards
• Interest for career development including joining MSc or PhD program in advanced modeling.
• Knowledge of other languages including Swahili, French, Spanish, Portuguese is an advantage.
• 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.