Req #: 244413
Department: GLOBAL HEALTH
Posting Date: 04/02/2025
Closing Info: Closes On 04/09/2025
Salary: $8,500 - $9,056 per month
Limited Recruitment:
Open to Department employees only
Shift: First Shift
Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-contract-covered-exempt-20250130-a11y.pdf)
As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.
UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.
The Department of Global Health was established in 2007, bridging the schools of Medicine and Public Health, with a mandate to harness the expertise and interdisciplinary power of all UW schools and colleges. Our mission is to improve health for all through research, education, training, and service; to understand and address the causes of disease and health inequities at multiple levels; and to collaborate with partners to develop and sustain locally led, quality health systems, programs and policies. Driven by tremendous interest among both students and faculty, the Department has grown to more than 400 graduate students and hundreds more undergraduates. We have more than 380 faculty and 1,000 staff working on projects across 130 countries with our deepest ties in United States, Kenya, Uganda, Peru, Mozambique, India, South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua. At the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington, diversity is integral to excellence. The Department recognizes that disparities in health around the globe stem from inequity. The Department encourages and supports the multiple identities of staff, faculty and students including, but not limited to, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, language, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, culture, spiritual practice, geography, mental and physical disability and age. The Department strives to become a local, national, and international leader in developing and maintaining increased representation and recognition of each of these dimensions of diversity among its faculty, staff, and students.
This position will sit in the Global Center for the Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children (Global WACh) that is based in the University of Washington Departments of Global Health, Obstetrics/Gynecology, and Pediatrics. Our mission is to make scientific discoveries, cultivate leaders, and bridge disciplines to advance the tightly connected health and well-being of women, adolescents and children. Global WACh brings together expertise in maternal health from the Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, neonatal and child health expertise from the Department of Pediatrics, and vast experience working in infectious disease, health metrics and evaluation, education, clinical research, and service delivery within the Department of Global Health. These disciplines combine under a methodology that views women, children, and adolescents as three populations interconnected along a shared life course.
POSITION PURPOSE AND COMPLEXITIES
Global WACh has an opportunity for a full-time (100% FTE)
Research Scientist
who will support multiple projects that aim to design and analyze mixed methods data from implementation research focused on evaluating acceptability, feasibility, and cost-effectiveness of implementation strategies to reduce child mortality in low resource settings.
The Research Scientist will collaborate with UW and International Collaborators to design and execute research studies of high public health impact, using standardized and novel scientific and analytic techniques. The worksite is the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). This position regularly exercises discretion, good judgment and independent decision-making authority. The position requires the ability to work in a dynamic, diverse, and collaborative environment, and to lead multiple projects and analyses simultaneously. The Research Scientist will contribute to impactful scientific discoveries that advance the mission and reputation of the UW.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Data Analysis, Management, and Capacity Building (40%)
- Applies advanced statistical methods to answer research questions.
- Manages large study databases and inventories.
- Conducts sampling and supports the collaborative team on sample size analyses and development of statistical analysis plans.
- Conducts qualitative analysis, including development of codebooks structured around implementation science frameworks.
- Partners effectively with collaborators in the US and elsewhere to accomplish research objectives.
- Innovates new approaches to strengthening research partnerships, building research capacity at DGH and partner institutions.Research Project Design and Grant Writing (20%)
- Identifies key challenges in implementation research, particularly structural readiness assessment to launch implementation, and proposes solutions to address those gaps, and expand knowledge.
- Leads writing of grant proposals and contributes to collaborative grant proposals led by others to federal and non-federal sponsors.
- Supports students and international collaborators in writing and improving research proposals.
- Networks with external practice partners (foundations, institutes) and sponsors (NIH, pharma) to explore and develop new funding streams for the team’s collaborative research projects.Manuscript Writing and Results Dissemination (20%)
- Leads, and contributes to the writing of research papers, commentaries, reviews and reports.
- Disseminate findings at stakeholder meetings, scientific conferences, and other media.
- Delivers guest lectures.
- Participates in manuscript and reviews funding proposals from the University of Washington and partner institutions.
- Works with policymakers and other experts to share knowledge and accelerate research findings into practice.Project Management & Operations (10%)
- Leads and manages long-term research projects with a high level of independence.
- Creates, monitors and implements effective plans; takes the lead for scoping tasks/projects; assembles and leads research team members.
- Practices strong cross-cultural communications skills to effectively lead international teams, including communication with partners based in Francophone Africa.Leading and Mentoring (10%)
- Mentor trainees in the US and throughout sub-Saharan Africa to develop and complete research projects, analyses, and capstones.
- Leads training sessions for international staff in the conduct of research.
- Mentors staff or students in development of technical, project, and analysis skills.
- Performs other duties as assigned. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, or related field and four years of experience with implementation research, data analysis, nutrition and child survival, or equivalent combination of education/experience. Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Implementation Science or be in the process of completing a PhD in Implementation Science.
- Fluency in French.
- Content expertise in implementation research, including barrier/strategy matching and implementation science theories, models, and frameworks.
- Familiarity with Kobo data collection systems.
- Expertise in data management and analysis using R.
- Expertise in qualitative data management and analysis using Dedoose.
- Existing collaborative research networks.
- Experience working with international investigators to increase capacity in data management, data collection, and analysis.
- Strong cross-cultural communication skills and ability to apply principles of decolonization to their work. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
- Primary work location will be at the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health on the UW Seattle campus. Hybrid of in-person and remote work will be considered.
- Periodically available for phone calls/meetings in the early morning and late evenings to accommodate worldwide time differences.
- Deadline-driven environment, occasionally requiring extended hours.
- International travel will be required. Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.
University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
