Senior Research Scientist, Gender, Vulnerability and Health Equity

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Gates Foundation

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Philanthropy
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: $186,400 USD-$288,800 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 30/06/2025
  • Location: United States 
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI) Health
The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

What You’ll Do:
  • Develop and apply advanced statistical and predictive models to improve understanding of maternal mortality and morbidity outcome metrics.
  • Conduct statistical analysis, simulation studies, and other quantitative and qualitative analyses to explore the tradeoffs between different data collection strategies, and how to appropriately model novel data collection strategies
  • Adapt knowledge, ideas, and research methodology from different disciplines to develop innovative approaches to longstanding challenges in the field of global and maternal health.
  • Lead strategic initiatives focused on Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) modeling, data analysis, and data collection efforts.
  • Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to understand the current policy and programmatic questions related to MNCH and broader team focal areas of women’s health and gender equality.
  • Develop, advance, and collaborate with team members on modeling and data analysis projects.
  • Communicate research outputs through publications, conference presentations, stakeholder engagement, and collaborations with external partners.
  • Clearly communicate complex research methods and findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • International travel may be necessary.

Your Experience: 
  • A Ph.D. in a relevant discipline (e.g., statistics, demography, public health) with significant coursework in quantitative methods (e.g., Statistics/Biostatistics, Data Science, Demography).
  • Minimum of five years of research experience in a related field.
  • Demonstrated expertise and diverse knowledge in theoretical and computational methods in mortality estimation, risk stratification, geospatial, or microsimulation modeling.
  • Knowledge of MNCH global public health research and focal areas, particularly in data systems within low-income countries (LICs).
  • Experience and strong understanding of global health data sources working with imperfect global health data (e.g., surveys, DHS, CRVS, routine HMIS, etc.)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills especially in conveying complex analyses to diverse audiences including policymakers.
  • Experience working in or with country governments and partners, especially in translating data into actionable insights.
  • Demonstrated ability to work productively independently and as part of a team, both leading analyses and providing a supporting analytic role
  • Proficiency with statistical programming languages (R strongly preferred); familiarity with GitHub, cloud computing environments and reproducible research workflows

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