Coordinating Office for Global Health
Personal Services Contracts
A Personal Services Contract (PSC) is an employment contract between CDC and an individual. The PSC creates an employer- employee relationship that allows CDC to exercise supervision and control over the contractor performing roles and responsibilities outlined in the contract. CDC PSCs may be used to employ U.S. citizens or third country nationals and are limited to services provided outside the United States. PSCs may not be used to employ host country nationals (defined as citizens or "permanent" legal residents of the host country), who are hired in the host country through the U.S. Embassy.
CLOSING DATE/TIME: October 30, 2008, at 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
POSITION TITLE: Lead Scientific Data Analyst
BASIC SALARY: $51,095 to $88,015 per year -- Final compensation will be based on individual salary history, work experience, and educational background.
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: One Base Year and Four Option Years
PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Gaborone, Botswana
SECURITY CLEARANCE: NACI (non-sensitive)
AREA OF CONSIDERATION: United States Citizens and residents and third country nationals. Citizens and permanent residents of the host country are not eligible for this position.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Lead Scientific Data Analyst will provide management direction for all data collection, data management, and data analysis activities for HIV Prevention Research (HPR) activities including direct supervision of senior data manager, statistical analyst, and applications manager positions. Provide management direction for system development, training, and maintenance, including all software used for data collection by HPR. Provide management direction in the design and implementation of data quality management procedures and reporting. Identify and characterize methods to resolve and monitor resolution of problems with data validity, completeness, coding, timeliness, or data system efficiency. Evaluate, guide, or implement possible alternative approaches to data collection and data management. Contribute to the design and revision of CRFs. Evaluate trial performance data (event reporting). Collaborate with CDC investigators in the design and implementation of HPR research, including clinical trials, surveys, observational studies, and operations research. Oversee development of DSMB report and collaborate with CDC trial statisticians in preparing DSMB reports. Consult with laboratory and other external data systems teams to facilitate integration of those data sources with the main HPR research databases. Contribute to close out of trial and final reporting. Ensure that clean and complete datasets are provided for timely analysis by HPR investigators and CDC statisticians. Create analytical datasets for statisticians. Using Clindex, SQL, QDS, and other software as needed to develop, test, and validate data entry, management, and reporting programs and to document procedures in SOPs. Ensure data collection and management procedures are conducted in compliance with the FDA Good Clinical Practice and Good Clinical Laboratory Practice standards. Manage protocol deviations and violations. Provide ongoing documentation of trial. Manage trial SOPs. Ensure data related SOPs are followed. Responsible for records management including archiving of all clinical trial records.
For more detailed information about this position vacancy and instructions on applying for it, please use the following link:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=9f85
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CLOSING DATE/TIME: November 3, 2008, at 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
POSITION TITLE: Senior Behavioral Science Advisor
BASIC SALARY: $67,260 to $107,180 per year -- Final compensation will be based on individual salary history, work experience, and educational background.
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: One Base Year and Four Option Years
PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Lusaka, Zambia
SECURITY CLEARANCE: NACI (non-sensitive)
AREA OF CONSIDERATION: United States Citizens and residents and third country nationals. Citizens and permanent residents of the host country are not eligible for this position.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The Behavioral Science Advisor (hereafter referred to as Incumbent) is responsible for providing direct project support and technical assistance for the implementation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). As a member of the PEPFAR Interagency Country Team and multiple Interagency Technical Working Groups (Prevention of sexual transmission, Medical Transmission, Counseling and Testing) the incumbent provides technical expertise to improve HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment interventions with the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) Ministry of Health (MOH), National AIDS Council (NAC), other relevant Ministries and other governmental and non-governmental partners involved in the national fight against HIV/AIDS. Incumbent serves as the lead behavioral science and technical expert for implementation and integration of specific HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment activities. Although work will be conducted within the CDC-GAP team, incumbent collaborates with the broader PEPFAR team to strengthen a unified approach to behavioral interventions for HIV prevention, care and treatment in Zambia. Incumbent plays a major role in developing the capacity of Zambia medical and health staff with respect to lessons learned for preventing the transmission of HIV/AIDS, and the care and treatment of individuals impacted by this disease. Ensures collaboration among the range of CDC's GAP and PEPFAR partners involved in these programs, and provides leadership in promoting the use of internationally recognized best practices and lessons learned among the PEPFAR-sponsored and -supported programs. Incumbent provides expertise to support existing efforts, as well as to contribute to the design, development and integration of prevention, care and treatment strategies across all program areas of PEPFAR Zambia. Incumbent plays an essential role in developing Country Operational Plans (COPs), annual work plans and associated budgets, and regular progress reports related to the prevention and behavioral science portfolios for CDC GAP, OGAC, and other collaborating partners.
For more detailed information about this position vacancy and instructions on applying for it, please use the following link:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=d5464a94
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CLOSING DATE/TIME: November 3, 2008, at 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
POSITION TITLE: Senior Epidemiologist
BASIC SALARY: $67,260 to $107,180 per year -- Final compensation will be based on individual salary history, work experience, and educational background.
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: One Base Year and Four Option Years
PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Lusaka, Zambia
SECURITY CLEARANCE: NACI (non-sensitive)
AREA OF CONSIDERATION: United States Citizens and residents and third country nationals. Citizens and permanent residents of the host country are not eligible for this position.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The Senior Epidemiologist (hereafter referred to as Incumbent) is responsible for coordinating, managing and facilitating all survey and disease surveillance activities funded through PEPFAR CDC Zambia, including the design of routine disease surveillance systems with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and other relevant Ministries, and the conduct of large, complex surveys designed to measure HIV prevalence and other indicators of importance to evaluating the impact of HIV control programs. This position is responsible for the development of scopes of work, project plans and timelines, and for reviewing protocols, questionnaires, and standard operating procedures for these activities. Disease surveillance systems to be strengthened or developed may include those related to HIV/AIDS, STI, and mortality reporting. Surveys to be coordinated may include Behavioural Surveillance Surveys (BSS), AIDS Indicator Surveys (AIS), Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), mortality, and Antenatal Care (ANC) sentinel surveillance surveys. Partners to which incumbent provides technical or managerial oversight include Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ), national universities and hospitals, international NGOs and private sector partners. The position reports directly to the Chief, Epidemiology and SI Branch. Incumbent participates in the PEPFAR Strategic Information Technical Working Group to ensure that epidemiology and surveillance systems are meeting the needs of the national HIV/AIDS Program and that PEPFAR Zambia program priorities are developed. Incumbent's primary responsibility is to develop HIV/AIDS activities and programs, as defined in the PEPFAR Country Operations Plan. Incumbent works, at both a supervisory and a project management level, to coordinate the design, implementation, and strengthening of surveillance systems and health surveys related to HIV/AIDS. At a technical level, incumbent ensures appropriate, high quality implementation of these systems and surveys. Incumbent also works with USG partners, at both implementer and national levels, to quantify progress towards targets set for PEPFAR.
For more detailed information about this position vacancy and instructions on applying for it, please use the following link:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c665be
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CLOSING DATE/TIME: November 6, 2008, at 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
POSITION TITLE: Senior Social Demographer
BASIC SALARY: $67,260 to $107,180 per year -- Final compensation will be based on individual salary history, work experience, and educational background.
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: One Base Year and Four Option Years
PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Kisumu, Kenya
SECURITY CLEARANCE: NACI (non-sensitive)
AREA OF CONSIDERATION: United States Citizens and residents and third country nationals. Citizens and permanent residents of the host country are not eligible for this position.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Serves as a Senior Social Demographer (hereafter referred to as Incumbent) to provide scientific consultation and oversight for CDC-Kenya evaluations and research involving the demographic surveillance system based in Kisumu, Kenya; to lead and facilitate demographic research and analyses; to train and mentor locally employed staff in demographical methods; to develop policies and procedures for the appropriate community survey methods; to provide technical advise to external organizations such as the Kenya Medical Research Institute or the Ministry of Health; and, to advise the Field Station Director and other senior staff or investigators on matters of social demography. Coordinates, collaborates and consults on demographic scientific and technical issues with officials within the Ministry of Health or its parastatal the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), local and international public health agencies and non-governmental organizations on the development, implementation and conduct of demographic analyses and research projects. Provides technical advice and support, compiles and analyzes data for key demographic activities such as the Demographic Surveillance System (DSS) in Kisumu, Kenya. The DSS, with approximately 208,000 inhabitants, has been the base for a variety of studies, including an evaluation of insecticide-treated bed nets, diarrheal disease surveillance, evaluating treatment strategies for anemia in children, assessment of immunologic correlates of malaria infection, research on preventing mother to child transmission of HIV, evaluation of a rotavirus vaccine, and planned evaluation of candidate malaria and HIV vaccines. The Senior Social Demographer provides oversight and technical advice for all of these activities. Serves as the lead technical advisor on demographical science issues for the CDC-Kenya team. As a member of the Management Team, incumbent provides scientific and ethical consultation and oversight for CDC-Kenya program activities involving demography and community surveys, evaluations, research and reporting.
For more detailed information about this position vacancy and instructions on applying for it, please use the following link:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=
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