Associate Director, Epidemiology – Job Vacancy at International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) – Dec 2024 Full Time

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.

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.