Multi country Statistician – INDEPTH Effectiveness and Safety Studies 
(INESS) – Accra, Ghana 

Organisation: INDEPTH Network

Sector: Statistics

Job Level: Senior

Location: Accra Ghana 

Opportunity Details

INDEPTH is an independent, non-governmental not-for-profit international 
organisation currently working with 37 community-based health and 
demographic surveillance system (HDSS) sites in 19 countries in Africa, Asia, 
Central America and Oceania, to provide health, social and demographic data 
and research to enable developing countries set, among others, health 
priorities and policies, based on scientific evidence. 

The INDEPTH Effectiveness and Safety Studies (INESS) is a project of the 
INDEPTH Network and comprises a number of autonomous research groups, 
working together to plan and execute a programme of work that will provide 
the needed information on  effectiveness and safety of ACTs  to the national 
malaria programme managers for  policy making. The INESS core management 
will provide the administrative support for the whole platform. We are seeking 
a scientist with a strong background in public health or related field as a 
Project Manager to manage and co-ordinate the activities of INESS, which will 
be based at Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Project 
Manager will work closely with the Principal Investigator, the INDEPTH 
Secretariat in Accra, and the research partners of the Platform to execute the 
scientific agenda of INESS.  He or she will be expected to travel extensively to 
the different partner institutions. 

Tasks/Responsibilities:

Overall goal /responsibility

Coordinate and lead all the analysis work related to the INESS study. 

Specific Tasks 

Working with the INESS task teams and sites, the statistician will;

 

Support a team of statisticians from about 8 sites in 4 Africa countries to 
generate site and country specific data on safety and effectiveness of 
antimalarial drugs. 
Collate and generate INESS wide data on safety and effectiveness of 
antimalarial drugs 
Support the analysis population based information to support the safety and 
effectiveness data in each site and on the INESS wide platform 
Provide technical backstopping for statistician based in the 8 sites  
Organize relevant INESS Investigator’s meeting and other meetings required to 
discuss issues related to statistics; 
Ensure and produce consolidated reports of analysed data from the different 
sites/tasks teams on regular basis; 
Undertake other tasks related to areas of statistics as required by INESS 
secretariat necessary for the successful implementation of the project.
Qualifications/Personal requirements: 

A scientific background with  PhD in Statistics, demographics and /or medicine 
with at least 3-5 years experience   
Or an MA/Msc in Statistics, demographics and /or medicine with good track 
record of at least 10 years 
Experience in analysis of multi country project s and or/ safety data and /or) 
Demographic Surveillance data would be useful. 
Experience working with people of different cultural, religious, political 
backgrounds, and those at community level will be an asset. 
Excellent team building, IT, presentation, written and spoken communication 
skills in English. 
Knowledge of French and/or Portuguese would be an advantage.
Submission Instructions

Interested candidates should send an application with full curriculum vitae by 
e-mail including the names of 3 referees to Dr Aziza Mwisongo, INESS Project 
Manager, INDEPTH Network Secretariat, Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road, Kijitonyama, 
COSTECH Building, P.O Box 78373, email address; aziza.mwisongo@indepth-
network.org  by August 15th, 2009. 

Female applicants are encouraged to apply.

Date of interview will be communicated to the candidates who will be short 
listed