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| Position: | Senior Research Scientist – 1 post |
| Reports To: | Principal Investigator / Project Leader |
| Work Station: | Dar es Salaam |
| Apply By: | 20th August, 2025 |
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.
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Position Summary
Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is seeking a Postdoc Researcher with advanced modelling skills will contribute to the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) East Africa (EA) Node’s mission and objectives of developing and employing cutting-edge advanced geospatial analytical architectures to understand the risks and estimating the burden of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria, assessing the impact of interventions across various levels and settings at global, regional and national to provide the National Malaria Control Programmes (NMCPs) with the quality evidence to guide optimal allocation of resources in malaria endemic countries.
The post-docs are expected to follow coding and data-management standards, develop methodologies that can be utilized by others within the team and/or used in a complex analytical pipeline. As a scientific achievement, postdocs should take leadership in the preparation of scientific reports and journal articles for publication of research findings from their work in open access journals but also contribute to the team communication strategies.
This role will also involve collaboration with a wide range of malaria stakeholders, translating model outputs to NMCPs and communicating the utility to the malaria decision, building and strengthening analytical skills to others through training, mentoring and supervision.
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Skills and Competencies
- 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.
Remuneration
An attractive and competitive remuneration package will be offered to successful candidates as per IHI salary scales.
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