Technical Advisor, Epidemiologist
Job Overview
Position Overview
CHAI is seeking a highly motivated individual with strong public health experience and analytical skills to serve as an epidemiologist and technical advisor to its teams across Asia. This role offers a unique opportunity for a talented individual to apply epidemiological and analytical skills to guide the operations of a cross-country disease elimination program and an opportunity to help end two diseases in the Asia region. The successful candidate will be a key technical and strategic voice in the region, leading CHAI’s work on malaria and dengue analytics and surveillance.
The successful candidate will lead a small team of epidemiologists working directly with government counterparts to assess, design, and scale-up disease surveillance systems; conduct robust data analysis; and monitor and evaluate the success of ongoing efforts to achieve malaria elimination and dengue control. The individual will collaborate with a diverse team of CHAI staff based across multiple countries (primarily but not exclusively in Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, India, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea), government programs, academics, and public health agencies. The successful candidate will possess strong communication, organizational, and management skills; work independently to drive implementation; have the potential to grow into a global health leader; and have deep personal commitment to producing results.
Key Responsibilities
Regional Strategy:
- Serve as a technical and strategic leader for the region on malaria, dengue and expanding portfolios where required
- Lead all malaria and dengue surveillance and analytics work for the GMS and other geographies, as required
- Serve as an expert/technical advisor for epidemiological questions to CHAI’s regional team, country teams, and for senior leadership
- Support rigorous evidence-based planning of intervention deployment, and design and implement monitoring to evaluate effectiveness of current government interventions, and identify potential approaches or strategies to accelerate progress
- With the CHAI Regional Manager, country Program Managers and MoH counterparts, discuss and design CHAI and MoH strategy for malaria elimination and dengue control;
Technical project management:
- Oversee the implementation of analytics, surveillance, and technology projects to support evidence-based decisions
- Contribute to the formulation of annual work plans across multiple countries
- Organize, clean, and integrate datasets; conduct statistical analyses; and develop and interpret malaria risk maps and stratifications
- Lead monitoring and evaluation of the performance of existing and new surveillance processes and platforms, and identify ways of improving them
- Review and ensure high-quality surveillance and analytics guidelines and SOPs, M&E plans, lessons learned documents, and operational manuals
- Oversee design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination of operational research projects related to surveillance, intervention effectiveness, and entomology
- Support the development of country-led systems for conducting data analysis and leading surveillance related processes;
Team management and partner collaboration:
- Directly manage, onboard, provide technical mentorship, supervision, guidance, and training to a small team of junior and mid-level epidemiologists based across the region
- Work directly with country teams and governmental staff to better integrate epidemiological, entomological, and programmatic data use and analysis into routine programmatic activities at all levels of the health system
- Cultivate and establish relationships with local academic institutions, NGOs (e.g. PSI, PATH), and regional organizations (e.g. WHO, APMEN) working on data analysis or surveillance to inform elimination goals, which may include management of contracts with external partners
- Foster a collaborative and high-performing team culture across malaria, dengue, and cross-cutting workstreams, helping build strong connections between technical, country, and regional teams;
Communication and knowledge management
- Manage and develop resources and best practices to share lessons across teams; synthesize and disseminate findings through high-quality presentations, reports, and publications
- Represent CHAI at external technical meetings, acting as the face of the organization to academic/technical partners within the region, including via the dissemination of findings through high-quality presentations, reports, and publications
- Review and/or contribute to the development of the technical sections of grant deliverables and internal reporting (power points, programmatic reports, grant proposals, scoping documents);
Any other tasks identified.
Qualifications
- Masters or PhD in public health, epidemiology or related field
- 5+ years of work experience with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership, including management experience
- Enthusiasm for applying research methods to solve global health problems, focusing on malaria and/or other major global infectious disease concerns
- Experience mentoring and managing junior technical staff
- Experience with designing, conducting, and analysing epidemiological surveys
- Experience in evaluating, working with, and strengthening disease surveillance systems
- Experience in working and communicating with government officials and other external partners
- Experience with strategic development for public health
- Exceptional skills in the epidemiological analysis of health data and the application of analyses for decision-making
- Statistical and geospatial analysis programming experience (including expertise with R, STATA, ArcGIS, QGIS and/or other relevant software)
- High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and internet applications
- Proficiency in report writing and other concise written communications
- Ability to work independently in remote and unstructured settings and to adapt to new environments and challenges
- Ability to collaborate and operate as part of a multicultural team
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills
- Willingness to travel extensively (30% of time)
- Fluency in English
Advantages:
- Knowledge of malaria, dengue, and/or other major global infectious disease problems
- Experience in programming (e.g., JavaScript, Python) and/or working with surveillance platforms (e.g. DHIS2), data collection tools (e.g. ODK, SurveyCTO) and/or data visualization applications (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI)
- Experience working in fast-paced, output-oriented environments
- Experience living or working in resource-limited settings, especially in the Greater Mekong Subregion
- Burmese, Khmer, Laos, Thai, and/or Vietnamese language proficiency.
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