Job: Senior Research Officer with the Research Group of Zoonotic Diseases under the Centre for Communicable Diseases

Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh 
Deadline: Tuesday, 15 October 2013 

Description
Posted on: 8 October 2013

Application Deadline: 15 October 2013

Senior Research Officer with the Research Group of Zoonotic Diseases under the Centre for Communicable Diseases (Advertisement #354/13)

icddr,b invites applications from suitable candidates  for the position of  Senior Research Officer with the Research Group of Zoonotic Diseases under the Centre for Communicable Diseases. The appointment will be made on a contractual service agreement basis for 6 months, which may be extended for further period depending on satisfactory performance and availability of funds.

Duty station – Dhaka

Salary – Tk.42,237/- (consolidated) per month inclusive of house rent and conveyance allowances. No other benefit is admissible.

Job Profile

• Proposal and Protocol Development: Provide input to Research Investigator on proposals and protocols being developed; draft sections of protocols relating to quantitative research (e.g. questionnaire, guidelines); provide inputs to revise budgets; review protocol for adherence to quantitative research principles and make appropriate suggestions to Research Investigator in order to support the creation of sound proposals and protocols with funding potential;

• Project Implementation: Plan for field work (allocation of locations and duties, requisitions for logistics / transport / petty cash etc.) and validate with Research Investigator; train field staff on research methods and protocol activities (animal restraining and sampling, sample shipment, biosafety and biosecurity); secure buy-in from concerned authorities (e.g. community leaders, local government representations, religious leaders) about conducting the study; monitor field staff data collection activities and verify their quality of work through independent data collection; resolve issues, and raise escalations to Research Investigator, if required; guide team members to extract the data; direct team members to create database ; analyze database and prepare preliminary analysis in order to capture data and information for analysis;

• Scientific Analysis, Knowledge Creation and Report Writing: Review information and data captured and develop possible manuscript ideas in collaboration with Research Investigator; perform analysis based on direction from Research Investigator; create a report with findings and share with supervisor; revise analysis based on guidance from Research Investigator and discussions with other team members; write sections of the manuscript under advice of Research Investigator; convene a meeting of all authors to review proposed manuscript; gather input and make corrections to manuscript; peer review manuscripts and abstracts of other authors and provide them input and feedback in order to support scientific manuscript creation while developing one's own scientific writing abilities;

• Mentoring and Training: Guide team members on completion of tasks, activities, reports and documents (e.g. Performance Management Development System formalities, field reports); mentor and train staff on-the-job in the field; provide feedback to supervisor on team members' performance; prepare and train team members within the centre (e.g. on Bioethics) as scheduled by centre training team in order to spread knowledge and develop team members.

Requirements:

Education and Relevant Experience:

• Must be a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) with MS degree from any recognized university;
• 4 years of experience in field research domain.

Functional Competencies:

Knowledge of:

• Animal sampling;
• Sample shipment;
• Data Collection Methods;
• Ethical Guidelines;
• Budgeting Skills;
• Administrative Policies and Procedures.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Can maintain collegiality in the work place;
• Can foster partnerships;
• Able to communicate effectively;
• Should have innovative thinking skill;
• Able to execute for results;
• Able to adopt with continuous learning.

Interested candidates who fulfill the requirements should submit online applications using icddr,b website: https://centre.icddrb.org/recruitment/jobList.jsp by October 15, 2013. Internal candidates must mention their identification number in the application. 

Special information

icddr,b is an equal opportunity employer and particularly welcomes applications from women candidates. Any persuasion will disqualify the candidature. Only short-listed candidates shall be invited for interview. All tests and interviews will be held in Dhaka.

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