Senior Research Fellow

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About the Organization

The George Institute for Global Health was established in 1999 with a mission to improve the health of millions of people worldwide, particularly underserved populations, by challenging the status quo and using innovative approaches to prevent and treat the world’s biggest killers: non-communicable diseases and injury.

With offices in Australia, China, India and the UK, our 700+ people support 245+ active projects and clinical trials across 50+ countries, with 400+ more staff across our social enterprises. We focus on the global health challenges that cause the greatest loss of life, the greatest impairment of life quality and the most substantial economic burden, particularly in resource-poor settings.

Together with our academic partners, UNSW Sydney in Australia, Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India and Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, we work with a global network of collaborators, undertaking clinical, population and health systems research.

Job Description

The Senior Research Fellow (SRF) will work for the Research and Development division within the George Institute, India.

The SRF will support the Program Directors in designing, conducting, analyzing and reporting health research studies with a focus on qualitative methods. Experience and interest in community engagement, conducting and analysing discussions and observations, and writing up findings are essential. 

In particular, the SRF should contribute towards the conduct of the “Effects of extreme heat in pregnancy” study that aims to quantitatively estimate the association between environmental heat and pregnancy outcomes and qualitatively provides insights into heat adaptations amongst pregnant women. The study will use a retrospective cohort of 10,000 mother-baby pairs and prospective cohorts of 600 women vulnerable to heat stress across three different climate zones i.e., Haryana, Puducherry and Chhattisgarh. The SRF will lead the qualitative component of the study to develop a deep and nuanced understanding of the interplay between exposure to high ambient temperatures, maternal behaviours, and opportunities for and barriers to adaptation.  This component will use the socio-ecological model of health, and an intersectionality-based analysis.

Job Responsibilities

• Build and maintain key stakeholder relationships, including relationships with project partners and collaboration with staff and investigators at different sites in India and the other project countries
• Manage overall project coordination including study budget, meetings with study team members across three sites, collaborators and funders
• Leading/contributing to the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of qualitative and mixed-methods health research studies.
• Develop study protocol and related documents (e.g. participant information sheet and consent forms, data collection forms, interview guides, manuals of study procedures etc.)
• Submit study documents for the review of Ethics Committee and Health Ministry Screening Committee.
• Review relevant literature (journal manuscripts, policies, reports, etc.)
• Train teams on study related activities, with a focus on qualitative data collection procedures, data storage, management, sharing and anlaysis
• Travel for data collection and monitoring of the study team, sites, and attend collaborator meetings.
• Conduct interviews and focus group discussions where language permits and supervision of the same.
• Contribute to and supervise data collection and data management across all study sites
• Produce interim products as required by milestones of the project – create plans and timelines for this in collaboration with the team
• Develop high quality reports corresponding with agreed upon milestones and deliverables of the project
• Lead/contribute to manuscripts for publication.
• Contribute to writing funding grant applications.
• Participate in education and training activities of the team and the organization.
• Any other activities as required by the projects and the institute

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Qualifications: Advanced degree (doctoral) in a health related field (e.g. Public Health, Nursing, Social Work, Development, Sociology etc.).
• Experience: ≥7 years in designing and conducting, analysing and reporting qualitative and/or mixed-methods health research studies.
• Prior experience or demonstrated interest in women’s health and/or in climate change a plus
• Excellent soft skills (communication, writing, team-player, adaptable)
• Excellent Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to demonstrate flexibility and to be adaptable to changing organisational priorities and ambiguous environments
• Strong focus on producing the highest quality of work and on ensuring optimum accuracy of outputs
• Well organised and efficient, with the capacity to work under pressure

Interested candidates should send their resume with full contact details, current and expected CTC/salary. Clearly mentioning the job title “Senior Research Fellow” in the subject line to hrindia@georgeinstitute.org.in by the 7th of July 2024

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