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Category: Professional Support | Department: IT Services | Closing Date: 15 May 2016 | The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is seeking to appoint an IT Training Officer who will be responsible for the delivery of a range of IT training and support to staff and post-graduate students at the School. The role-holder will also be required to produce and maintain guides and documentation in a range of formats, including web-based and multimedia resources. The role holder will join a small training team based within the Digital Services group in IT Services. They will be required to work closely with departments and services across the School, including Talent and Educational Development, the Project Management Office and the Division of Education, in order to identify, develop and deliver required training. Training and support is currently offered for in-house business systems including the Agresso finance system and the School content management system (CMS), MS Office app...

Category: Professional Support | Department: Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health | Closing Date: 05 May 2016 | The post holder will be responsible for providing financial, logistical and administrative support to the Group’s research programme, consisting of multiple research projects with a combined value of £2.3m. They will also manage their own portfolio of grants, and assist with communication activities.  Key responsibilities include monitoring project budgets and resources, preparing financial reports and grant applications, improving and updating the Group’s management information systems, organizing and facilitating meetings and acting as a central point of contact for Group members.  The role is integral to the functioning of the Programme and involves regular liaison with internal colleagues and external stakeholders. The post-holder will work closely with the Research Programme Manager, the Head of the Group and the Executive Committee, as well as with i...

Category: Professional Support | Department: IT Services | Closing Date: 08 May 2016 | The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is seeking to appoint a Multimedia Support Officers to join our multimedia team in IT Services. The team are responsible for providing a range of multimedia production and presentation services across the School, including event support, filming, lecture recording, photography, technical support, maintenance and dedicated studio work. The post-holders will assist with all aspects of these services and will have primary responsibility for lecture capture: including scheduling, editing and uploading recordings to the School VLE Moodle using our recording software Panopto. They will also be required to carry out some audio recording/editing of lectures.  The post-holders will act as first point of contact for customer enquiries via our Helpdesk software, Footprints. They will be required to liaise with customers and advise them on the best multime...

Category: Professional Support | Department: Department of Clinical Research | Closing Date: 05 May 2016 | We are seeking to appoint two full-time EBOVAC1 Clinical Trials Laboratory Scientists. The Clinical Trials Laboratory Scientist will assist in the setting up of a clinical study laboratory in Sierra Leone - reporting to Dr Deborah Watson-Jones as PI and on a day-to-day basis to Dr David Ishola. The role holder will carry out laboratory work related to an IMI funded project that is focused on the development of a Prophylactic Ebola Vaccine using an Heterologous Prime-Boost Regimen (EBOVAC1).    The successful candidate will have extensive practical laboratory experience in a clinical diagnostic or clinical trials laboratories, experienced in working in a fully accredited laboratory to GCLP or ISO:15189 standards, and good knowledge and experience of implementing, operating and maintaining Quality Assurance & Quality Control systems including; Internal Quality Control (...

Category: Professional Support | Department: Procurement | Closing Date: 10 May 2016 | The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice. We have more than 1,000 London-based Master's and Research students, 3,000 studying postgraduate courses by distance learning, and 1,000 participants annually on short courses and continuous professional development. The School is highly ranked in various global university league tables. We are looking for a motivated, organised individual to join our small procurement team. The successful applicant will have proven project and contract management skills, familiar with using e-tendering tools, (being fully conversant in the use of ...

Category: Academic | Department: Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health | Closing Date: 12 May 2016 | We are seeking a full-time Research Assistant to be responsible for effective coordination and management of a four-year, three arm, cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) to assess the impact and cost-effectiveness of two variants of an innovative intervention to improve agricultural and nutrition outcomes. The role is primarily based in Bhubaneshwar in India and will also entail close collaboration with the nutrition-agriculture programme-implementing partners and members of the research trial team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University College London and Development Corner (DCOR) in Bhubaneshwar. The post holder will be based in Keonjhar, Odisha, where the trial is being conducted in collaboration with four non-governmental, not-for-profit organisations as the programme implementing partners: Digital Green Foundation, VARRAT and Ekjut in Odisha...

Category: Professional Support | Department: Registry | Closing Date: 01 May 2016 | The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a leading postgraduate institution worldwide for research and postgraduate education in global health.   The School's mission is to contribute to the improvement of health worldwide through the pursuit of excellence in research, postgraduate teaching and advanced training in national and international public health and tropical medicine, and through informing policy and practice in these areas.  The School’s Registry has responsibility for supporting London-based teaching and research training programme by maintaining and advising on strategy, policies, procedures and regulations; processing applications, admissions and registering students; managing scholarships and tuition fees, supporting students during their study, and administering assessments. Further details can be found on the following website:  http://bit.ly/264rPJF; T...

Category: Academic | Department: Executive Office | Closing Date: 15 May 2016 | The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is seeking to appoint a Research Assistant to contribute to policy analysis, systematic reviews and policy development in the field of AIDS. This post is supported through a partnership between the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (www.lshtm.ac.uk) and United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS, www.unaids.org/en/).  The post-holder will provide policy and science support, validation of science evidence, preparation of data for publication and presentation, evaluation of the impact of policy and technological developments on AIDS and monitoring of the impact of the broader policy environment on the HIV response.  The successful candidate will be educated to Masters degree level (or equivalent) in a relevant field (such as political science, health policy research, social science, public health, epidemiology and health econ...

Category: Academic | Department: Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases | Closing Date: 06 May 2016 |   We are seeking to appoint a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work in the laboratory of Dr Teresa Cortes at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The new appointee will work on a European Research Council funded project and will be involved in characterising molecular mechanisms associated with selective translation of specific mRNA subsets in the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of human tuberculosis, and assess how they contribute to biological adaptation in this pathogen. The post is full-time and will be based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s laboratories in London.    The successful applicant will be directly involved in purification and characterisation of mycobacterial ribosomes as well as high throughput translatome analysis through ribosome profiling and mass-spectrometry. The pos...

Category: Academic | Department: Department of Disease Control | Closing Date: 03 May 2016 | Applications are invited for a Research Fellow in Spatial Epidemiology specialising in advanced statistics and modelling to join a multidisciplinary team working on the spatial mapping and modelling of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) (http://bit.ly/1HivLGM). The person will undertake geospatial analysis and modelling of disease distributions and use computer simulation to evaluate alternative sampling and surveillance strategies for NTDs. The post will be based in the Department of Disease Control at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The department offer excellent research facilities and a friendly and stimulating working environment. We are seeking applicants with PhD-level qualification in statistics, mathematical modelling, statistical epidemiology or relevant quantitative subject. Ability to develop complex statistics models and strong programming skills are essential, ...

Category: Academic | Department: Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health | Closing Date: 29 Apr 2016 | We have an exciting and challenging opportunity for a full time epidemiologist/public health/mental health researcher to join the Centre for Global Mental Health as a Senior Lecturer for 3 years to work on global mental health projects at the LSHTM. This post is a fantastic opportunity for a talented researcher with relevant epidemiological or research skills and a commitment to global mental health research, which will allow the successful candidate to work with some of the world’s leaders in this field. The job provides a range of opportunities in research, teaching and management of the Centre. The post-holder will conduct innovative, methodologically sound research on the epidemiology of mental disorders, mental health services and/or the development of mental health interventions in low- and middle income-countries. This work should extend our internationally competitive ...

Category: Academic | Department: Department of Disease Control | Closing Date: 29 Apr 2016 | The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine seeks to appoint a Professor or Reader (equivalent to Associate Professor) in Public Health Evaluation to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The successful candidate will lead a programme of research in public health evaluation, develop strategic partnerships in Ethiopia and worldwide, teach, and contribute to the mission and vision of the School.   Specifically, the Professor / Reader in Public Health Evaluation will lead a new five-year evaluation and capacity strengthening grant, entitled: Developing Ethiopian excellence for public health evaluation: measurement, learning and evaluation of improved integrated community case management and community-based newborn care in Ethiopia. He/she will be based at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute in Addis Ababa, and will contribute to building the research capacity of Ethiopian universities ...

Category: Academic | Department: Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health | Closing Date: 28 Apr 2016 | Advancing methods in biostatistics and epidemiology is one of the strategic priorities of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. We are seeking an outstanding individual to take a leading role in conducting innovative methodological research in biostatistics and/or epidemiology and extend our internationally competitive programme of research in methodology for observational and clinical studies, and thus contribute to studies of the aetiology, natural history, prevention and treatment of communicable and non-communicable diseases. The post-holder will also contribute to our post-graduate MSc, PhD and short-course teaching. The successful applicant requires extensive experience in methodological research, as well as excellent leadership skills in the development and application of biostatistical and epidemiological methods, with the capacity to innovate. The post...

Category: Professional Support | Department: Division of Education | Closing Date: 24 Apr 2016 | The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health. The School’s education provision comprises more than a thousand London-based Master's and research students, three thousand studying postgraduate courses by distance learning and approximately a thousand registrations annually on short courses or continuous professional development. A Student Support Administrator is required within the School’s Distance Learning Office for an immediate start.  Applicants must have experience of working in a student support environment, with a good understanding of the various aspects of administration covered by the role, preferably in a higher education setting, together with experience of organising a busy workload, assessing priorities and working closely within a team. The post involves acting as a firs...

Category: Academic | Department: Department of Health Services Research and Policy | Closing Date: 27 Apr 2016 |  We are seeking an enthusiastic researcher to join the Department of Health Services Research and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) to work on a collaborative project that will study the delivery and organisation of surgical services for women with urinary incontinence. You will join a multidisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians who play a leading role both nationally and internationally in shaping and guiding large-scale studies of healthcare quality. The project is funded by the National Institute of Health Research. It is a collaboration between the LSHTM, the University of Leicester, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and the British Society of Urogynaecologists. The project will assess the availability and use of surgical services across England and examine how patient, service and contextual factors af...

Category: Academic | Department: Department of Health Services Research and Policy | Closing Date: 27 Apr 2016 |  We are seeking a Research Fellow with expertise in the social sciences to work on a multidisciplinary project that will study services for women with urinary incontinence in England. This is an exciting opportunity for someone keen to make links between social science and a focused health issue.  You will join a team of researchers and clinicians who play a leading role both nationally and internationally in shaping and guiding large-scale studies of healthcare quality. The project is funded by the National Institute of Health Research and is a collaboration between the LSHTM, the University of Leicester, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and the British Society of Urogynaecologists. The project will assess the availability and use of surgical services across England and examine how patient, service and contextual factors affect the delivery of...

Category: Academic | Department: Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health | Closing Date: 13 Apr 2016 | We seek a Clinical Lecturer to work at the LSHTM (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) Clinical Trials Unit. LSHTM is a leading postgraduate institution in global health and the Clinical Trials Unit has an excellent international reputation, particularly in clinical trials in emergency care. We have trial collaborators in over 50 countries worldwide. We aim to appoint a Clinical Lecturer to play a key role in the development of our programme of emergency care research. As well as supporting our current emergency care trials, you will be expected to develop new research hypotheses, conduct analyses of emergency care data, write and publish research articles and prepare grant applications. You will have a sound understanding of epidemiology and familiarity with medical statistics. The post-holder must have clinical experience, a postgraduate qualification in epidemi...

Category: Academic | Department: Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health | Closing Date: 28 Apr 2016 | We are seeking to appoint a talented statistician to contribute to our programme of methodological research in genetic epidemiology. The post holder will work on methods to identify and exploit the polygenic basis of complex diseases.  Areas of research will include genetic prediction of disease risk and prognosis, and Mendelian randomisation.  The post holder will work closely with collaborators in cardiovascular, psychiatric and immunological genetics to optimise the analysis of large, intensively phenotyped cohorts. The post holder will also be required to participate in report-writing and preparation of scientific papers. The post holder will be expected to contribute to teaching of epidemiological or statistical methods for our post-graduate students, and provide academic support for research students. The successful applicant will have a PhD in Statistical ...

Category: Academic | Department: Department of Immunology and Infection | Closing Date: 12 Apr 2016 | We are seeking to appoint a Research Assistant to cover maternity leave . The successful applicant will work in the Department of Immunology and Infection supporting the ACCESS-SMC project (PI: Colin Sutherland) and the Monkeybar Project (PI: Chris Drakeley). Duties will involve the performance of high-throughput DNA extractions in an automated laboratory.   The postholder will also carry out malaria parasite detection and drug resistance genotyping using PCR and other molecular biology techniques   They will be expected to carry out independent laboratory work documenting and maintaining adequate records of results and experimental details.  Liaison with project partners in sub-saharan Africa is also a requirement.    The success applicant will have an MSc degree in Biological Science.  They should have experience in Molecular Biology particularly genotypi...

Category: Professional Support | Department: Library & Archives Service | Closing Date: 21 Apr 2016 | The Library & Archives Service of this major international postgraduate medical school is seeking an enthusiastic and innovative individual to assist with the delivery of support for Open Access publishing. The successful candidate will have proven experience of working successfully with institutional repositories and demonstrable knowledge of metadata standards and issues relating to open access publishing. Applicants should possess excellent communication skills, and be service oriented with excellent interpersonal skills. Excellent organisational skills, the ability to work as part of a team and the ability to take responsibility are also essential. Applications should be made on-line via our website at jobs.lshtm.ac.uk. The closing date is 21 April 2016 and the reference for this post is DSA7.  Applications should also include the names and email contacts of two referee...