Organisation : Burnet Institute
Location : Melbourne
Work type : Full-time, Part-time, Contract/Temporary
Sector : Health – General, Humanitarian, Mental Health, Overseas Aid & Development, Youth & Young People
Salary type : Annual Package
Salary : $74,173 per annum + superannuation
Application closing date : 18 Jul, 2021
About the organisation
We want you to have a successful and meaningful career at Burnet and are committed to providing a supportive workplace environment for all our people. You will be part of a collaborative culture where progressive leadership, innovation, respect, and excellence are valued. Join a team of talented individuals who are passionate about what they do – improving the health of vulnerable communities around the world.
We offer:
- A monthly accrued day off for full-time staff
- Flexible working arrangements
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- Generous salary packaging
- Opportunities for career and professional development
Who are we?
Burnet Institute is a leading Australian, unaligned, not-for-profit, organisation that uniquely links medical research with practical action to achieve better health for disadvantaged communities and help solve devastating global health problems.
Burnet Institute brings together a highly diverse skill base, with more than 400 staff and students working across cutting-edge research and projects to address some of the most relevant global health issues. Institute-wide interdisciplinary health programs Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, Disease Elimination, Behaviours and Health Risks, and Health Security, are at the heart of our daily decision making. Harnessing our international and local field presence, our laboratories, and our mixed development and research cultures drives a greater focus on the most relevant health issues and achieves a greater impact as a result.
Whilst our headquarters is in Melbourne, Australia, we also have offices in Papua New Guinea and Myanmar, and are actively involved in research and public health programs throughout Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and Africa. Burnet is the only unaligned organisation in Australia that has dual accreditation with both the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
Bring your whole self to work
At Burnet, we foster a diverse and inclusive culture. We want our people to feel like they belong and are free to be themselves at work. We have an active Gender Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (GEDI) Council that works to promote and improve gender equity, diversity and inclusion across the Institute, by developing and implementing strategies informed by both national and international best practice and staff input. Burnet holds an Athena SWAN Institutional Bronze Award from Science in Gender Equity (SAGE).
About the role
Are you a talented early career researcher with excellent research coordination skills and experience in adolescent health? Are you interested in contributing to meaningful public health research that positively impacts Asia and the Pacific? Then this could be the role for you!
This is an exciting opportunity to join Burnet’s Global Adolescent Health team. You will join a dynamic and experienced group of public health researchers and practitioners, with a particular interest in adolescent health research. In this role, you will contribute to the team’s public health research and knowledge synthesis activities, with a focus on improving adolescent mental health, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Asia and the Pacific.
Some of your duties will include:
- Conducting or contributing to reviews of quantitative and/or qualitative studies (including systematic reviews)
- Conducting data cleaning and query resolution activities and basic quantitative data analysis
- Contributing to developing study proposals and protocols for primary research and knowledge synthesis projects
- Assisting Working Group Heads with team coordination activities, including meeting agenda, meeting minutes and team communications
- Supporting media, website, communications and dissemination of working group activities as required, working with the WG heads and Burnet communications staff
Refer to the attached position description for full details.
You will also be given the opportunity to develop your skills, write academic papers, present at conferences, build on your understanding of statistical packages or join our coding and software club!
This position is initially for a 2-year period with the possibility of extension. Working hours are negotiable although 0.8 – 1.0 FTE would be preferred.
Let’s talk about you
The successful incumbent will have:
- A Bachelor degree, with honours, in science, health or other field relevant to sexual, reproductive, mental, or adolescent health in low- and middle-income countries
- Expertise in sexual and reproductive health AND/OR mental health AND/OR adolescent health AND/OR health services improvement AND/OR public health
- Skills and experience with conduct of systematic reviews, literature searching and screening and Endnote software
- Previous experience conducting health-related research activities
You will possess strong organisation and prioritisation skills which allow you to handle multiple research related tasks at once. Your excellent written and oral communication skills allow you to engage effectively with stakeholders, and you also work well independently exercising strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
The following are preferable but not essential:
- A post graduate qualification in the health sciences, public health or a relevant field
- Previous experience in international development, research or not-for-profit organization
- Experience working in a resource-constrained country or setting
- Experience with qualitative data analysis, including use of software (NVivo or similar)
- Experience working with statistical analysis software for quantitative analysis of health data (such as STATA, SPSS or similar)
- Peer-review publications in a health field
- Experience with electronic data collection and capture systems (eg: REDCap or similar)
How to apply
Applications not allowed for this job listing.
Please quote in application: Research Assistant – Adolescent Health via Pro Bono Australia.
Sector: #Health_–_General, #Humanitarian, #Mental_Health, #Overseas_Aid_and_Development, #Youth_and_Young_People
