Vacancy Announcement – School of Public Health – AAU

Vacancy Announcement – School of Public Health – AAU

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School of Public Health – AAU would like to invites competent and interested candidates for the following position.

Position 1: AFCRN Project Administrator

Job description:

• Direct the day-to-day project related activities by working closely with the Principal Investigator.
• Review and adapt Addis Ababa University’s and consortium member institutions’ relevant financial, human resource, and procurement guidelines and policies to facilitate the smooth implementation of the project.
• Train or organize training for project staff to orient them on guidelines and operational manuals that are relevant to their respective responsibilities.
• Assists the Principal Investigator in the preparation of reports to donors and partners including regular reports to institutions in the consortium.
• Organize regular meetings with member institutions and scientific events at different milestones of the project and document the deliberations.
• Supports the Principal Investigator in liaising with relevant seminar speakers and trainers including making the necessary arrangements for the successful implementation of the desired scientific events.
• Work with the communication expert to see the development of a website as a platform to communicate the progress of the research to stakeholders and institutions in the consortium.
• By working with the communication expert, disseminate preliminary and final research findings through e.g., mailing lists, social media platforms and websites.
• Oversees the conduct of internal and external audits.
• Supervises the production of monthly finance management reports by the finance officer for the executive team.
• Supports the project affiliated faculty members and research staff in the development of new grant proposals.
• Oversee the recruitment, orientation, training, deployment, and management of full-time and parttime research staff including timely payment of their salaries and other payments.
• Provide need based administrative support to the School of Public Health finance and administrative team.

Number of available Position: 1

Project title: Network for Oncology Research in Sub-Saharan Africa (NORA)

Qualification and experience:

Advanced degree in Public Health (MPH with a minimum of 5 years’ experience or a PhD with a solid background in managing, preferably, non-communicable disease research projects).

Competencies and personal qualities:

• Committed to achieving the project goals.
• Able to work independently as a part of a team to implement the project.
• Ability and willingness to work as a member of a team, with people of different cultural, and religious backgrounds, and maintaining impartiality and objectivity.
• Experience working in research consortiums or multi-country collaborative research projects.
• Experience in projects planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Extensive experience in developing scientific research proposals and drafting scientific and operational reports.
• Knowledge of the key disease related and health system challenges in the effort to control non-communicable diseases.
• Working knowledge of generic health system operations and that of the Ethiopian health system.
• Proven analytical skills and ability to think strategically.
• Fluency in English – written and verbal.
• Excellent communication skill both in local languages and English and experience in communicating key data in reports and presentations.
• Ample exposure providing training to staff on operational matters related with research projects.
• Optimal exposure chairing programmatic and scientific meetings and documenting the proceedings.
• Competency in statistical packages for quantitative data analysis (STATA, SPSS, EpiData) experience in using software for qualitative data analysis such as Atlas.ti. is a plus.
• Adept at using all Microsoft Office applications.
• Past or present experience working with Addis Ababa university is desirable.

Position 2: Communications and Public Relations Officer

Job description:

• Work closely with the Principal Investigator of the project, the project manager, and research teams from all the institutions in the consortium.
• Develop communication and visibility strategy to be endorsed by the research team.
• Establish a standard communication protocol between institutions in the consortium to regularly update the progresses of the project and communicate with relevant stakeholders.
• Engage the investigators and project administrators and solicit data to be shared to stakeholders, the scientific community, and the public.
• Gather and document information pertaining to the progress of the project including preliminary and final research findings.
• Produce digital content about the project, its progress, and the research findings based on information from the research team.
• Research, identify and develop engaging stories about the project and its achievements that is fit to different digital platforms (news articles, blogs, editorials, magazine articles, social media posts); different channels (web, audiovisual, social media)
• Adapting information and data from obtained from the project into different digital formats (web content, blogs, social media posts etc.) for non-expert audiences, e.g. policy makers, practitioners, and the wider public.
• Formulating key messages for different targets as stipulated in the communication strategy.
• Developing communication materials in line with the REACCT-CAN corporate visual identity (presentations, leaflets, infographics etc)
• Engaging with stakeholders and moderating discussions online and face-to face.
• Will work on other tasks as assigned by the project management team

Number of available locations: 1

Project title: Research and Excellence in Africa Capacity to Control and Treat CANcer (REACCT-CAN)

Qualification and experience:

Advanced degree (Masters) in Public Relation; or Masters in Public Health (MPH) in Public Health Promotion and Health Communication or related fields. 

A similar job experience of minimum of two years

Competencies and personal qualities:

• Committed to achieving the project goals.
• Able to work independently as a part of a team to implement the project.
• Ability and willingness to work as a member of a team, with people of different cultural, and religious backgrounds, and maintaining impartiality and objectivity.
• Experience working as a communication officer.
• Experience working in research consortiums or multi-country collaborative research projects.
• Working knowledge of generic health system operations and that of the Ethiopian health system.
• Fluency in English – written and verbal.
• Excellent communication skill both in local languages and English and experience in communicating key data in reports and presentations.
• Ample exposure providing training to staff on operational matters related with research projects.
• Optimal exposure chairing programmatic and scientific meetings and documenting the proceedings.
• Adept at using all Microsoft Office applications.
• Past or present experience working with Addis Ababa University is an asset.

Position 3: Accountant Officer

Principal Responsibilities:

• Analyzes of financial transactions, prepares financial documents, maintains records and posting of accounting data using Peachtree accounting software.
• Follows up-the timely collection of bank statements and advice and undertakes reconciliation with own records.
• Classifies, codes and journalizes accounting transactions for posting.
• Supervises the posting of accounting data to sub and general ledgers from accounting records and documents.
• Prepares monthly payroll and pass all necessary journal entries related with payroll and presents to supervisor for verification.
• Ensures monthly payments are made per payroll deductions; follows-up the orderly clearance of payables and receivables.
• Checks and posts ordinary receipt voucher, debit notes, credit notes and other vouchers; verifies.
• Prepares payment vouchers and certifies for approval.
• Provides assistance to internal and external auditors and answers their enquiries.
• Analyzes the case of abnormal balances shown in monthly trial balances.
• Provides professional advice and guidance to the school finance officers.
• Coordinates the collection and deposit of income and settlement of advances.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Project: Network for Oncologic Research in Africa (NORA)

Number of available locations: 1

Job Requirements

Requirements

Essential Qualification and Experiences

• BA degree/Masters in accounting or similar fields from a recognized university.
• Demonstrated skills in accounting of large scale and/or multiple projects preferably in Ethiopian university contexts.
• At least 5 years of experience working as an accountant for organization with large scale and/or multiple projects.
• Discretion and a proven ability to handle confidential and sensitive information.
• Strong computer literacy including Microsoft excel, word, power point etc.
• Strong administrative, communication and organizational skills.
• Personal attributes
• Well organized
• High level of attention to detail
• Ability to create a good working condition.
• Manages to work with limited resources and under difficult conditions.

Position 4: IT Officer

Job description:

• To work closely with the Principal Investigators of the project, the project manager, and research teams from all the institutions in the consortium.
• Creating new computer systems, networks, and applications or finding software errors through troubleshooting for IT based cancer data management applications at AAU
• Expected to work with computer-based information systems, software, and hardware, typically by designing, developing, and managing them including the following roles for the cancer data management program at AAU
• Identifying Key technical problems on regular basis and deploying the appropriate IT solutions to solve problems
• Designing computer-based systems or programs as requested
• Identifying user needs with technology
• Engaging with stakeholders and moderating discussions online and face-to face. Will work on other tasks as assigned by the project management team

Number of available locations: 1

Project: Network for Oncologic Research in Africa (NORA)

Qualification and experience

Masters degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields. 

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields with a minimum similar job experience of two years

Competencies and personal qualities

• Committed to achieving the project goals.
• Able to work independently as a part of a team to implement the project.
• Ability and willingness to work as a member of a team, with people of different cultural, and religious backgrounds, and maintaining impartiality and objectivity.
• Experience working as an IT person.
• Fluency in English – written and verbal.
• Excellent communication skill both both in local languages and English and experience in communicating key data in reports and presentations.
• Adequate knowledge and skills in computer programming, software and hardware.
• Adept at using all Microsoft Office applications, database management and data management.
• Past or present experience working with Addis Ababa University is an asset

Position 5: Program Manager

Job description:

• Direct the day-to-day project related activities by working closely with the Principal Investigator.
• Review and adapt Addis Ababa University’s and consortium member institutions’ relevant financial, human resource, and procurement guidelines and policies to facilitate the smooth implementation of the project.
• Train or organize training for project staff to orient them on guidelines and operational manuals that are relevant to their respective responsibilities.
• Assists the Principal Investigator in the preparation of reports to donors and partners including regular reports to institutions in the consortium.
• Organize regular meetings with member institutions and scientific events at different milestones of the project and document the deliberations.
• Supports the Principal Investigator in liaising with relevant seminar speakers and trainers including making the necessary arrangements for the successful implementation of the desired scientific events.
• Work with the communication expert to see the development of a website as a platform to communicate the progress of the research to stakeholders and institutions in the consortium.
• By working with the communication expert, disseminate preliminary and final research findings through e.g., mailing lists, social media platforms and websites.
• Oversees the conduct of internal and external audits.
• Supervises the production of monthly finance management reports by the finance officer for the executive team.
• Supports the project affiliated faculty members and research staff in the development of new grant proposals.
• Oversee the recruitment, orientation, training, deployment, and management of full-time and parttime research staff including timely payment of their salaries and other payments.
• Provide need based administrative support to the School of Public Health finance and administrative team.
• The program manager also will be involved in the scientific and research activities as assigned by the project principal investigator.

Number of available Position: 1

Project title: Network for Oncologic Research in Africa (NORA)

Qualification and experience

Advanced degree in Public Health (MPH with a minimum of 5 years’ experience or a PhD with a solid background in managing, preferably, non-communicable disease research projects).

Competencies and personal qualities

• Committed to achieving the project goals.
• Able to work independently as a part of a team to implement the project.
• Ability and willingness to work as a member of a team, with people of different cultural and religious backgrounds, and maintaining impartiality and objectivity.
• Experience working in research consortiums or multi-country collaborative research projects.
• Experience in projects planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Extensive experience in developing scientific research proposals and drafting scientific and operational reports.
• Knowledge of the key disease related and health system challenges in the effort to control non-communicable diseases.
• Working knowledge of generic health system operations and that of the Ethiopian health system.
• Proven analytical skills and ability to think strategically.
• Fluency in English – written and verbal.
• Excellent communication skill both in local languages and English and experience in communicating key data in reports and presentations.
• Ample exposure providing training to staff on operational matters related with research projects.
• Optimal exposure chairing programmatic and scientific meetings and documenting the proceedings.
• Competency in statistical packages for quantitative data analysis (STATA, SPSS, EpiData) experience in using software for qualitative data analysis such as Atlas.ti. is a plus.
• Adept at using all Microsoft Office applications.
• Past or present experience working with Addis Ababa University is an asset.

Deadline: May 6, 2024

How to Apply

Qualified applicants are expected to submit their CV and cover letter to Addis Ababa University, School of Public Health (Sefere Selam Campus) Human Resource Department second floor, office number 218 within ten working days from the date of this announcement

Applicants should provide contacts of three references, who should be their previous employers.

Only short listed candidates will be communicated.

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