The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative is a global not-for-profit, public-private partnership working to accelerate the development of vaccines to prevent HIV infection and AIDS.
Key Responsibilities:
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- Work as an integral member of the Product Development Teams (PDT) in 1 or more disease areas, providing strategic input for discovery, early and late-stage development, and policy implementation.
- Collaborate with the Senior Director, Epidemiology and PDTs to develop critical path epidemiology research plans in one to two disease areas.
- Serve as an integral part of the IAVI Epi Team by leading research in 1 or more disease areas and providing technical assistance in other disease areas and across IAVI departments.
- Develop research consortium, protocols, and implement epidemiological and related research in close collaboration with the Clinical Development, Quality and Global Access departments as needed.
- Collaborate with internal and external colleagues to ensure robust analysis of quantitative and qualitative outputs.
- Lead and contribute to proposal writing to secure funding for epidemiological and related research to generate evidence to support end-to-end product development.
- Manage the planning, execution and delivery of funded projects in accordance with current regulatory guidelines and internal procedures, including reviewing and approving study reports.
- Disseminate outputs to internal and external stakeholders, including academic researchers, policymakers, multilateral organizations, and key funders.
- Ensure that IAVI internal process and international best practices for research are followed.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant epidemiological methodologies, vaccine science, product development, and disease areas.
- Publish regularly, at least annually, as first or senior author.
- Perform other duties as assigned by manager.
Beach vacations
Education and Work Experience:
- Advanced degree in Epidemiology or related field (MSc or PhD) is required; PhD is highly preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years post-graduate epidemiology experience with PhD or a minimum of 8 years’ experience with a Master’s or advanced degree required.
- Minimum of 2 years of direct experience developing and implementing epidemiological research in LMIC is required.
- Experience obtaining and leading external, competitive, peer-reviewed grant funding is required.
- Experience leading high impact, peer-reviewed manuscripts that reflect area of expertise is required.
- Experience working in the development of pharmaceutical products is desired.
- Honorary or adjunct appointment in a university epidemiology department is desired.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Experience in epidemiological methodology and ability to apply it within the context of product development, using best practices is required.
- Expertise in applied statistics for epidemiology and a statistical software package (STATA, R, SAS) is required.
- Experience building a coherent and robust program of epidemiological research to answer prioritized research questions is required.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to be resourceful and proactive are required.
- Strong interpersonal and intercultural skills, with experience working collaboratively with colleagues from a wide range of disciplines, countries, and cultures are required.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentations skills, with the ability to critically review documents by colleagues and collaborators, including protocols, study tools, and manuscripts.
- Strong publication record in peer reviewed journals is required.
