Anthropologist AMP Ferney Voltaire, France
AMP is a non-profit organization with headquarters in Paris and offices in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Vietnam. AMP’s mission is to promote preventive medicine and public health by developing expertise and applied research in vaccinology; offering training in epidemiology and health program management; organizing scientific and technical meetings; and disseminating information on vaccinology and other health-related fields.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job title: Anthropologist
Program: Health Economics and Medical Anthropology
Duty station: Ferney Voltaire, France
The employer
AMP's areas of expertise include technical advice on the development of vaccination strategies and systems (such as the Expanded Program on Immunization in West Africa), training of health professionals from Europe and Africa in epidemiology and health services management, and vaccine-preventable disease research (including large and small randomized clinical trials, non-randomized clinical trials, population-based surveillance, laboratory technologies transfer, sero-epidemiological studies, carriage studies, economic studies, anthropological studies and vaccination logistics evaluations). AMP has a long history establishing and coordinating multi-country projects. We are the lead grantee for several Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) grants: to establish and support vaccine and immunization advisory committees in low- and middle-income countries (SIVAC); to establish cholera surveillance in 8 African countries (Africhol); to identify barriers and opportunities for increasing immunization advocacy in national and district-level governments (ADVIM). We have established meningitis surveillance in Togo, Burkina Faso, and Mali. We coordinate the EPIVAC Training Program and the EPIVAC Network, which involve governments and health officers from over 15 African countries. AMP has also conceptualized and implemented several economic and anthropological studies, including on meningitis epidemics, vaccine safety, measles aerosols and IPV.
Context
To support the development of the Health Economics and Medical Anthropology program, AMP is looking for an experienced anthropologist. The anthropologist will be responsible for conducting studies implemented through the Health Economics and Medical Anthropology program, in various parts of the world with a specific focus on developing countries. The anthropologist will work under the authority and supervision of the Health Economics and Medical Anthropology program leader.
Main responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Health economics and Medical anthropology program leader, the anthropologist will:
· Participate in proposal writing
· Develop study protocols and tools
· Coordinate and monitor in-country study implementation
o Manage relationships with National Authorities and local counterparts
o Coordinate processes aiming at getting necessary approvals for in-country study implementation
o Participate in the selection of study sites and target population
o Set up local study teams in coordination with the project coordinator
o Train national interviewers on study specificity and study tools
o Supervise the interviewers during the data collection process to ensure the quality of data
· Supervise the transcription of interviews
· Conduct quantitative and qualitative data analysis, using dedicated software
· Write necessary technical reports
· Provide regular feedback on study implementation to the Project Director
Education
Master’s degree in anthropology, ethnology or sociology
Specialization in health (medical anthropology) preferred
Experience
· 2 to 3 years of field experience in conducting anthropological studies including:
o the development of protocols and tools
o and conducting interviews and focus groups
· Professional experiences in developing countries and in project design and proposal writing are an asset
Language
· Fluent in English and French (both spoken and written) compulsory
· Spanish or Portuguese would be an asset
Skills
· Good team player
· Autonomous / capacity to work independently
· Flexible and capacity to adapt to inter cultural environment
· Capacity to work under pressure
· Good inter-personal communication skills
· Strong written and oral communication skills (both written and verbal) in French and English in a scientific context
· Excellent skills in MS-Word /Excel/PowerPoint
· Familiar with social sciences software such as Maxda, Ethnograph, Aquad, etc...
· Familiar with data analysis software such as Epi Info, Stata, SPSS...
· Enthusiasm and willingness to travel abroad
Travel: This position is highly intensive for travel throughout Africa, Asia, Europe and potentially Latin America, up to 50% time.
Availability: As soon as possible, and mid-April 2012 at the latest.
Employment Conditions: The position will be a 1-year, full-time position (with possibility of prolongation).
Salary: Competitive and commensurate with the candidate's training and professional skills and experience.
How to apply: Interested candidates should send a letter of interest and curriculum vitae to Mr. Frederic DEBELLUT fdebellut@aamp.org (tel.: +334 50 40 05 33) before 15 March, 2012.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job title: Anthropologist
Program: Health Economics and Medical Anthropology
Duty station: Ferney Voltaire, France
The employer
AMP's areas of expertise include technical advice on the development of vaccination strategies and systems (such as the Expanded Program on Immunization in West Africa), training of health professionals from Europe and Africa in epidemiology and health services management, and vaccine-preventable disease research (including large and small randomized clinical trials, non-randomized clinical trials, population-based surveillance, laboratory technologies transfer, sero-epidemiological studies, carriage studies, economic studies, anthropological studies and vaccination logistics evaluations). AMP has a long history establishing and coordinating multi-country projects. We are the lead grantee for several Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) grants: to establish and support vaccine and immunization advisory committees in low- and middle-income countries (SIVAC); to establish cholera surveillance in 8 African countries (Africhol); to identify barriers and opportunities for increasing immunization advocacy in national and district-level governments (ADVIM). We have established meningitis surveillance in Togo, Burkina Faso, and Mali. We coordinate the EPIVAC Training Program and the EPIVAC Network, which involve governments and health officers from over 15 African countries. AMP has also conceptualized and implemented several economic and anthropological studies, including on meningitis epidemics, vaccine safety, measles aerosols and IPV.
Context
To support the development of the Health Economics and Medical Anthropology program, AMP is looking for an experienced anthropologist. The anthropologist will be responsible for conducting studies implemented through the Health Economics and Medical Anthropology program, in various parts of the world with a specific focus on developing countries. The anthropologist will work under the authority and supervision of the Health Economics and Medical Anthropology program leader.
Main responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Health economics and Medical anthropology program leader, the anthropologist will:
· Participate in proposal writing
· Develop study protocols and tools
· Coordinate and monitor in-country study implementation
o Manage relationships with National Authorities and local counterparts
o Coordinate processes aiming at getting necessary approvals for in-country study implementation
o Participate in the selection of study sites and target population
o Set up local study teams in coordination with the project coordinator
o Train national interviewers on study specificity and study tools
o Supervise the interviewers during the data collection process to ensure the quality of data
· Supervise the transcription of interviews
· Conduct quantitative and qualitative data analysis, using dedicated software
· Write necessary technical reports
· Provide regular feedback on study implementation to the Project Director
Education
Master’s degree in anthropology, ethnology or sociology
Specialization in health (medical anthropology) preferred
Experience
· 2 to 3 years of field experience in conducting anthropological studies including:
o the development of protocols and tools
o and conducting interviews and focus groups
· Professional experiences in developing countries and in project design and proposal writing are an asset
Language
· Fluent in English and French (both spoken and written) compulsory
· Spanish or Portuguese would be an asset
Skills
· Good team player
· Autonomous / capacity to work independently
· Flexible and capacity to adapt to inter cultural environment
· Capacity to work under pressure
· Good inter-personal communication skills
· Strong written and oral communication skills (both written and verbal) in French and English in a scientific context
· Excellent skills in MS-Word /Excel/PowerPoint
· Familiar with social sciences software such as Maxda, Ethnograph, Aquad, etc...
· Familiar with data analysis software such as Epi Info, Stata, SPSS...
· Enthusiasm and willingness to travel abroad
Travel: This position is highly intensive for travel throughout Africa, Asia, Europe and potentially Latin America, up to 50% time.
Availability: As soon as possible, and mid-April 2012 at the latest.
Employment Conditions: The position will be a 1-year, full-time position (with possibility of prolongation).
Salary: Competitive and commensurate with the candidate's training and professional skills and experience.
How to apply: Interested candidates should send a letter of interest and curriculum vitae to Mr. Frederic DEBELLUT fdebellut@aamp.org (tel.: +334 50 40 05 33) before 15 March, 2012.
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