CDC Rwanda Office - Senior Research and Evaluation Specialist

Jefferson Solutions, the well-respected government consulting company of Jefferson Consulting Group, an award-winning woman-owned small business, is seeking Senior Research and Evaluation Specialist to provide ongoing support to the CDC Rwanda office. 

The Senior Research and Evaluation Specialist will Provide a broad range of surveillance, epidemiologic studies, and evaluation support to CDC Rwanda to ensure surveillance and epidemiologic studies conducted are done in compliance with good clinical practices, including but not limited to regulatory oversight and data quality. 

 Duties: 

• Support CDC Rwanda in all surveillance, epidemiologic studies, and evaluation endeavors, through hands on support, consultancies, and scheduled meetings.  
• Provide technical and expertise advice on surveillance, epidemiologic studies, and evaluation matters to CDC Rwanda staff.  
• Provide technical assistance and training on surveillance, research and evaluation methodology and program evaluation.  
• Develop protocols for program evaluations, operations research, surveys and surveillance.  
• Adapt and present approved CDC curriculum on protocol development, research methods, including data collection, data management and analysis, data interpretations, and manuscript writing for CDC Rwanda.  

• Develop protocols and data collection tools and provide guidance on data collection, implementation and data analysis and write-up.  
• Support a collaborative approach in program design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of program activities.  
• Build capacity within the CDC Rwanda’s programs teams and implementing partners to improve submitted surveillance and scientific products for clearance, including protocols, abstracts, manuscripts.  
• Review scientific evidence pertaining to disease prevention, and care and treatment support programs at CDC.  
• Disseminates results from CDC-funded surveillance, epidemiologic studies and program evaluations conducted by implementing partners.  

• Monitor on-going studies to ensure quality, valid and reliable data. A.1.12 Monitor data, records, and processes for ethical assurance.  
• Travel to and present on behalf of CDC Rwanda at CDC-approved national conferences, meetings and workshops as requested. These conferences may include INTEREST, APHA, IAS, etc.  
• Participate in SIMS visits, data quality assessments, when requested by CDC Rwanda senior management.  
• Disseminate program and study results in collaboration with CDC Rwanda staff and implementing partners through scientific journals, periodic reports, and public presentations.  
• Support CDC-Rwanda’s key partners (Ministry of Health and RBC) in conducting surveillance and epidemiologic studies on emerging public health threats and infectious diseases.  

• Support analysis and interpretation of CDC Rwanda program data through triangulation of surveys, surveillance, and program data.  
• Complete special projects as instructed. 

 Qualifications 

• Expert knowledge of statistics, and epidemiology, to design, conduct, and analyze studies to develop and evaluate protocols pertaining to HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, and other infectious diseases.  

• Minimum of five years’ experience in advanced analysis using SPSS, SAS, STATA and data management. 
• Experience working with the federal cooperative agreement recipients and budget processes and cycles.  
• Ph.D. in Statistics with a Masters in Science. 
• Experience working in an international setting for at least five years. 
• Required language skills English (Level IV: Fluency in speaking, reading, writing and understanding of English). 

• Knowledge of French Language. 

 Note: Only U.S. citizens or non-U.S. citizens who have lived in the U.S. at least three of the last five years are eligible to provide services under this task order. The exception to this is an incumbent non-U.S. citizen employee with current, valid security clearance for physical and logical access to CDC and embassy facilities and network. 

Jefferson Solutions is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, genetic data, veteran status or any category protected by law. #zr