Jobs at African Population and Health Research Center
Jobs at African Population and Health Research Center,
Jobs at African Population and Health Research Center
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is leading Africa-based, African-led, international research institution headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and conducting policy-relevant research on population, health, education, urbanization and related development issues on the continent.
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Post-Doctoral Research Scientist (Re-advertisement)
Duties/Responsibilities
- Working with the project team to ensure the successful implementation of the Kenya Abortion Survey; and other assigned projects;
- Coordinate the Kenya Abortion Survey project activities, including planning and supporting training, data collection, analysis, and reporting;
- Oversee/lead the development of field and training manuals;
- Oversee the review and translation of research tools;
- Oversee fieldwork of the proposed research project to ensure the timely implementation of field activities;
- Support proposal writing and other fundraising activities within the Unit;
- Ensure ethical approvals and research permits are obtained;
- Oversee data cleaning and analysis;
- Lead the development of project reports;
- Participate in the dissemination of research findings and policy dialogue with appropriate audiences;
- Monitor project budgets and expenditure;
- Prepare project progress reports; and
- Lead and contribute to the development of manuscripts on abortion from this study and other topics within APHRC.
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
- PhD in Public Health, Community Health, or any related field with a specialization/focus on sexual, reproductive, maternal, and adolescent health and abortion research in Africa.
- At least one year of post-doctoral research experience conducting research on sexual and reproductive health, especially on abortion, in Africa.
- Demonstrated experience in managing research projects.
- Skills in quantitative and qualitative methods, including experience in data analysis with familiarity in Stata.
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills and ability to work independently in a team.
- Extensive experience and expertise working in abortion research (both quantitative and qualitative) and abortion policy in Africa.
- At least four years working and engaging with stakeholders on the topic of abortion, and with knowledge of the post-abortion care landscape.
- Demonstrable ability to write and publish scientific papers based on one’s publication history on sexual and reproductive health and/or abortion.
Researchers
Responsibilities (dependent on level appointed):
- Provide leadership to scientific research teams or projects in an area related to early childhood development (ECD), education and/or youth empowerment;
- Contribute to policy engagement and the theme’s strategic planning activities;
- Lead and contribute to proposal development and fundraising for research projects in the Theme;
- Mentor young researchers, and facilitate sessions in the Center’s training programs as needed;
- Secure and manage the necessary human, financial and material resources in the Theme, project or program;
- Represent the Center at high level national, regional and international forums, including relevant technical working groups and expert committees;
- Contribute to institutional publications including and not limited to lay dissemination materials such as policy/research briefs and fact sheets; and
- Oversee data quality and analyses.
Qualifications and Experience:
- PhD in educational psychology, developmental psychology, early childhood development, sociology of education, education administration, education management, economics, tests and measurement, linguistics, teaching methods, comparative and international education, technology education, special education, curriculum studies, gender studies with a focus on education, policy studies with a focus on education, statistics with application in education, development studies, youth and community studies or any other related discipline
- Experience working in a research institution, conducting research, leading or managing research programs or projects;
- Experience with conducting impact evaluations of ECD and/or education interventions will be an added advantage;
- Fluency in English; being multilingual (English and French) will be an added advantage;
- Excellent scientific writing skills;
- Good quantitative or qualitative skills, experience with mixed methods will be an added advantage provided one is very strong in quantitative or qualitative methods;
- Strong proposal writing skills and track record of winning research grants.
Post-Doctoral Research Scientists in Impact Evaluation
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
- PhD in Economics, Public Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, Health Economics, Population and Reproductive Health, Development Economics/Politics or Public Policy and other related disciplines, with specialization in Impact Evaluation of development projects, preferably public health.
- Advanced skills in econometrics/statistics, quantitative methods, and qualitative methods.
- Ability to conduct large-scale surveys in developing countries and handle large datasets using standard econometric statistical software programs (STATA, SAS, R, Python, etc.).
- At least 3 years of work experience in project evaluation and impact analysis is essential.
- Demonstrated experience in in-depth impact analysis methods, and experimental and quasi-experimental methods applied in impact evaluation (RCT, Instrumental Variable regression, propensity score analysis, and interrupted time series, etc.).
- Experience designing and implementing one or more of the following: implementation research, process evaluations, formative/process/summative research, qualitative and mixed-methods research.
- At least two (2) publications or technical reports (or a doctoral research thesis) that utilized IE methodologies/approaches.
- Excellent written, presentation, and communication skills; ability to presentarguments and analysis in a structured and succinct manner.
- Strong quantitative skills and ability to work with large data sets.
- Ability to work independently; self-starter and highly motivated.
- Strong theoretical and applied statistical knowledge in particular for the design of IEs.
- Proficiency in English language is required.
- Working knowledge of East, Southern, Northern, and West African regions is desirable.
- Experience in simulation and optimization modelling, and economic evaluations is a plus.
Associate Research Scientist- Demographer
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of a demographic research theme with a focus on the West and Central Africa regions;
- Provide leadership to demographic research, explore and analyze demographic data within the region, including but not limited to fertility, mortality, urbanization, demographic dividend, population projections, and other human population changes;
- Lead and contribute to proposal development and fundraising for research projects;
- Provide analytical advice and support to researchers developing proposals and writing scientific papers;
- Lead desk reviews, policy analysis and development of protocols and tools;
- Oversee data management and analyses;
- Contribute to policy engagement and the unit’s strategic planning;
- Mentor junior researchers and facilitate in the Center’s training programs as needed;
- Ensure community mobilization and education of the community in relation to the research;
- Secure and manage the necessary human, financial and material resources of the project;
- Represent the Center at high level national, regional and international forums, including relevant technical working groups and expert committees;
- Actively engage in scientific publications including peer-reviewed articles, briefing papers and blogs and production of donor reports;
- Contribute to institutional publications including and not limited to lay dissemination materials such as policy/research briefs and fact sheets; and
- Oversee/lead development of field and training manuals.
Qualifications and Experience
- PhD in Demography, Populations Studies, Public Health, Sociology, Statistics, or equivalent in related disciplines.
- Have 3-5 years’ of relevant post-doctoral experience.
- Strong writing skills and good record of publications, which utilize defined analytical methodologies.
- Experience in developing proposals. Evidence of previous successful grants will be an advantage.
- Demonstrated experience in managing research projects, including experience in conducting, coordinating and managing surveys.
- Proven experience in conducting desk and literature reviews
- Strong quantitative skills (managing, analyzing and interpreting data), with good familiarity with quantitative statistical packages (e.g. STATA, R).
- Expertise in political economy research or qualitative methods; familiarity with qualitative analysis software packages (e.g. NVivo) will be an advantage.
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills and ability to work in a culturally diverse team.
- Experience working in Francophone West Africa.
- Must be bilingual with (fluently communicate and write in English and French)
Data Scientist (Data Science and Evaluation Theme)
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
- PhD in data science, applied mathematics, computational science and engineering, applied statistics or other related field. A master’s degree in any of the following mathematics, statistics or computer science.
- A minimum of seven years of professional experience in data analytics, computer science or statistics; with at least one-year’s postdoctoral experience.
- Programming skills. Knowledge of statistical programming languages like R, Python, and database query languages like SQL, Oracle, Hive, Pig is desirable. Familiarity with Scala, Java, or C++ is an added advantage.
- Statistics. Good applied statistical skills, including knowledge of statistical tests, distributions, regression, maximum likelihood estimators, etc. Proficiency in statistics is essential for datadriven activities.
- Machine learning. Good knowledge of machine learning methods like k-Nearest Neighbors, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests is essential
- Strong math skills (Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra) to support predictive performance or algorithm optimization techniques.
- Data wrangling. Proficiency in handling imperfections in data is a critical aspect of this role.
- Experience with data visualization tools like R shiny, matplotlib, ggplot, d3.js.ArcGIS, QGIS, PowerBi, Excel, Tableau to visually encode data and generation of dashboards for interpretation.
- Good communication skills to describe findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, has attention to detail and a strong analytical mind.
- Demonstrates ability to work both independently and to work collaboratively with internal and external team members, and stakeholders.
- Ability to multi-task, work accurately and effectively to deadlines; has good self-assessment of timing of tasks and ability to set deadlines; have organizational and time management skills to manage and prioritize workload.
- Demonstrate an appreciation of technical and analytic challenges, and learning new approaches and topics.
Post-Doctoral Research Scientist (SRMNCAH)
Duties/Responsibilities
- Working with the project team to ensure the successful implementation of the Kenya Abortion Survey;and other assigned projects;
- Coordinate the Kenya Abortion Survey project activities, including planning and supporting training, data collection, analysis, and reporting;
- Oversee/lead the development of field and training manuals;
- Oversee the review and translation of research tools;
- Oversee fieldwork of the proposed research project to ensure the timely implementation of field activities;
- Support proposal writing and other fundraising activities within the Unit;
- Ensure ethical approvals and research permits are obtained;
- Oversee data cleaning and analysis;
- Lead the development of project reports;
- Participate in the dissemination of research findings and policy dialogue with appropriate udiences;
- Monitor project budgets and expenditure;
- Prepare project progress reports; and
- Lead and contribute to the development of manuscripts on abortion from this study and ther topics within APHRC.
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
- PhD in Public Health, Community Health, or any related field with a specialization/focus on sexual, reproductive, maternal, and adolescent health and abortion research in Africa.
- At least one year of post-doctoral research experience conducting research on sexual andreproductive health, especially on abortion, in Africa.
- Demonstrated experience in managing research projects.
- Skills in quantitative and qualitative methods, including experience in data analysis withfamiliarity in Stata.
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills and ability to work independently in a team.
- Extensive experience and expertise working in abortion research (both quantitative andqualitative) and abortion policy in Africa.
- At least four years working and engaging with stakeholders on the topic of abortion, and with knowledge of the post-abortion care landscape.
- Demonstrable ability to write and publish scientific papers based on one’s publication history on sexual and reproductive health and/or abortion
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to African Population And Health Research Center (APHRC) on aphrc.org to apply
