Research Fellow in Global Child Health

Job title:

Research Fellow in Global Child Health

Company:

University College London

Job description

About us Our mission is to maximise and advocate for the holistic health of all children, young people and the adults they will become, through world-class research, education and public engagement. The UCL GOS ICH, together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, forms the largest concentration of children’s health research outside North America. The 2024-29 GOS ICH strategy focuses on its five scientific programmes. GOS ICH’s activities include active engagement with children and families, to ensure that our work is relevant and appropriate to their needs. GOS ICH generates the funding for our research by setting out our proposals in high quality applications to public, charitable and industrial funding bodies and disseminates the results of our research by publication in the medical and scientific literature, to clinicians, policy makers and the wider public. The Institute offers world-class education and training across a wide range of teaching and life learning programmes which address the needs of students and professional groups who are interested in and undertaking work relevant to child health. GOS ICH holds an Athena SWAN Charter Gold Award.About the role This post-doctoral position is designed to build capacity in Global child health services research and provide a dynamic, talented, and committed individual with the opportunity to lead implementation evaluation research across healthcare facilities in Malawi as part of the Neotree project.The post holder will be supported by Professor Michelle Heys and the Neotree team at UCL, funded by the Laerdal Foundation. Key duties and responsibilities include the following:

• To oversee and lead the implementation evaluation research across Neotree sites in Malawi, including qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, in collaboration with the Neotree Charity
• To support and inform evaluation research across Neotree sites in Zimbabwe
• To contribute to new research and funding proposal development
• To support analyses and write up of results for dissemination to funders and other key national and international stakeholders

The salary offered in this post is £42,099 – £46,732 per annum and is funded for 2 years in the first instance.About you The post holder should have a doctoral degree or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline, including population health sciences, epidemiology, health informatics, etc. They should have a background in health or health services research, preferably in clinical research in low-resource contexts. They will have experience in implementation research or evaluation and mixed methods research skills (including data collection, analysis, experience writing up research findings and experience of working in a multi-disciplinary environment.

Further information can be found in the job description.What we offer As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
On-Site nursery
On-site gym
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
Discounted medical insuranceOur commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/Available documents

Expected salary

£42099 – 46732 per year

Location

North West London

Job date

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 03:18:09 GMT

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