Senior Technical Advisor – Biostatistics

Unlimit Health

Job Title: Senior Technical Advisor: Biostatistics

Salary: £51,751 – £56,007 per annum (Level 4)

Reporting to: Deputy Director Evidence and Learning

Contract: Permanent, full time (35 hours per week)

Location: Hybrid / London Office

Who we are

Unlimit Health is an international organisation working to end parasitic disease. We work closely with affected countries, sharing evidence and expertise to eliminate preventable infections. Our purpose is to support people to live healthy lives, free from limiting disease.

Our vision is for resilient systems that sustain good health, so everyone everywhere can reach their full potential. We achieve this by working across multiple sectors in numerous countries to deliver effective and robust health programmes that have a lasting impact.

We were founded in 2002 with a £20m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and started life as a research group, the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, within Imperial College London. Consistently ranked globally as one of the most cost-effective non-profit initiatives, we have received significant funding since our inception including from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), USAID and philanthropic investors.

What we do

Our work includes:

• Evidence-based disease elimination support
• Cross-sectoral health systems strengthening
• Building collaborative partnerships

Our main area of focus is the elimination of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases (intestinal worms). Endemic infections of these parasitic worms are found in some of the world’s most marginalised communities, and they can have a hugely detrimental effect on individuals, including:

• Reduced productivity
• Internal organ damage
• Impaired child development
• Reduced school attendance
• Increased risk of HIV in women
• Infertility

The Role

The role of the Senior Technical Advisor: Biostatistics will advise on the design, development, planning and implementation of evidence and learning across large and complex programmes, focused on schistosomiasis and STH control and elimination.

The Senior Technical Advisor: Biostatistics will be responsible for the provision of high-level statistical support to a range of Unlimit Health (UH) activities across thematic priorities, including programmatic survey design (including power and sample size calculations), development of innovative monitoring and evaluation strategies and operational research and subsequently the statistical analysis and modelling of datasets.

Summary of Main Duties

• Lead on and perform statistical analyses of datasets arising from all routine survey and operational research activities to generate evidence on the behaviours and needs of target populations in endemic areas and to facilitate progress towards elimination of parasitic diseases
• Lead on the statistical input for the development of survey protocols including survey design, sample size calculations and reviewing final protocols
• Lead the production of compelling outputs to communicate outcomes from innovations and research to provide an evidence-base for progress towards elimination of parasitic diseases for country and global policy makers, donors and research funding agencies across multiple platforms
• Line management of biostatisticians ensuring they perform to a high standard by supporting staff development and increasing capacity of key skills and abilities
• Develop, and ensure adherence to, processes and standardised best practices supporting Evidence and Learning activities, including standardisation of data, data collection, and statistical processes
• Advising on and explaining statistical methods and techniques needed to generate suitable evidence to support programmatic aims to non-experts
• Contribute to, and lead on, Unlimit Health research projects and writing of scientific publications’ as this is a critical duty.

Closing date: 23:59 on Sunday 18th June 2023.

Interview date: 28th June 2023.

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

Applicants are required to have the right to work in the UK, and documentary evidence will be requested at the interview stage.

No agencies please.