University of Washington | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

IHME has an outstanding opportunity for a full-time Engagement Specialist position  on the Global Engagement and Outreach team (GEO) to help operate a large, global Collaborator Network that contributes to and utilizes its research, as well as to communicate with a growing array of policy stakeholders. The Engagement Specialist is responsible for the operational, logistical, and technical components of a range of engagement and outreach activities including webinars, consultative meetings, health intelligence briefings, an email newsletter, a member portal, and other communication channels. This individual will interface with several teams to develop and deliver compelling communication materials, maintain accurate stakeholder data in Salesforce CRM, and respond to stakeholder inquiries.  To be successful in this position, the incumbent will need to become familiar with IHME’s research agenda and help expand IHME’s stakeholder engagement by executing membership activities, writing content for outreach and communication, logistical and coordination management, and customer service. A qualified candidate will have excellent communication skills, an ability to interface directly with a wide variety of stakeholders providing excellent customer service, and ability to exercise sound judgement in determining next steps for inquiries and navigating competing priorities. They will also be responsible for applying this judgement to developing and executing engagement strategies and managing key communications channels such as the collaborator newsletter and other mediums.  Overall, the Engagement Specialist will support a diverse and growing audience of scientific collaborators and policy stakeholders and will be a critical member of the team devising innovative solutions to scale IHME’s stakeholder engagement, amplify its global perspective, and increase the impact of its research on health policy and practice. This position is contingent upon project funding availability. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/Candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=203484

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. Our vision is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base so all people live long lives in full health. IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which are cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members. IHME has an exciting opportunity for a Data Analyst on the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors enterprise (GBD) . A systematic, scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geography over time, the GBD is the largest and most comprehensive effort to date to measure epidemiological levels and trends worldwide. The GBD’s aim is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base to make decisions that achieve better health. This team measures risk factors and related indicators including tobacco, alcohol, and education. Outputs include estimates of exposure, attributable burden, and evidence of the relationship of exposure to the risk factors to associated health outcomes. The main purpose of the Data Analyst position is to provide support to research projects through database management, data quality management, computational support to multidisciplinary research projects, data extraction and formatting, and providing key inputs for papers and presentations. Data Analysts are tasked with developing an understanding of different research needs and analytic functions across multiple projects to best meet researcher needs. We are looking for an individual who is able to independently translate requests into actionable results through interactions with research databases, formulation of displays of results, and development of complex code to be applied to a variety of quantitative data. The role calls for dexterity in working with complex databases and the ability to assess, transform, and quality control results, and utilize quantitative data using coding languages (R) to ensure that other team members have exactly what they need to incorporate the data and results into their own components of the analytic process, presentations, and papers. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=202896&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=&szReturnToSearch=1

IHME has an outstanding opportunity for a System Administrator on our Infrastructure Team.  We are looking for someone with a customer service mindset, strong interpersonal skills, team player, results-oriented attitude, commitment, adaptability, and flexibility. The System Administrator will work with a team of system administrators and engineers to build and support a growing infrastructure to support an active research environment. These systems are vital to the success of the Institute and its mission, to improve the health of the world’s populations by providing the best information on population health. Additionally, the System Administrator will be working with professors, researchers, and other technical staff to develop what the Institute needs to build better metrics and ultimately improve global health. This position’s primary role is to support ongoing operations of complex systems, including maintaining datacenter infrastructure, operating systems (this position will work primarily with Linux, occasionally with Windows), high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, and systems applications.  For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/Candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=202019

IHME has an exciting opportunity for an Editorial Coordinator to coordinate its Scientific Publications processes.   The primary purpose of this position is to coordinate the publication of high-quality peer-reviewed scientific papers in collaboration with members of the publication and research teams. This position will ensure high quality and accuracy of all publications by maintaining strong attention to detail while planning around and creatively adapting to contingencies and supporting other Scientific Publications functions as needed. The individual needs to be able to communicate well with researchers from a diversity of disciplines, expertise, and cultural backgrounds, often across time zones around the world and under time-constrained circumstances.  For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/Candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=202018

IHME has an outstanding opportunity for a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Officer who will report to our Chief Diversity Officer.   The Program Officer will help IHME to fulfil the objectives of its current Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) activities and to provide expert management on their further development and evolution. This position is contingent upon project funding availability. The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Officer  will be a leader and thought partner in execution and facilitation to ensure IHME meets its diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives both within and external to the organization. This will require excellent interpersonal communication. IHME’s faculty and staff, as well as external stakeholders, are very invested in this work. The Program Officer will assist in troubleshooting, assessing, evaluating, and improving existing processes; collaborate with teams; and help to find creative solutions to challenges that arise. They will work directly with different entities at IHME including Employee Resource Groups, the DEI Council, Organizational Development and Training team, and the Department of Health Metrics Sciences. They will be a crucial contributor to IHME’s office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. They will also assist IHME’s research teams on different approaches through which they might approach or present their research to ensure it acknowledges intersectionality and racial justice and employs de-colonial actions through collaboration and other research activities. There are myriad opportunities for this position to effect change in our research funding strategies, our ongoing research, and our dissemination and collaboration strategies.  As an organization that values people, teamwork, and collaboration, it is also imperative that IHME develop its internal culture and infrastructure in a way that invites and amplifies the most diverse array of talent and expertise. Help to create a leadership culture that is responsive, trusted, and competent in issues of anti-racism, social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.  This position will work closely with the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) to coordinate, manage and execute IHME’s strategic priorities for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Engagement. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/Candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=201787

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to monitor global health conditions and health systems, as well as to evaluate interventions, initiatives, and reforms. It uses cutting-edge techniques to tackle some of the most difficult and most critical questions in global health and find answers that will become the foundation for better policies and, ultimately, better health. IHME has three outstanding opportunities for a Full Stack Web Developer II to join the Enterprise Data Management team and the Data Visualization team. The Enterprise Data Management Team is looking for two experienced developers who possesses an in-depth knowledge of web application development to lead development of IHME's website, healthdata.org and to lead development of the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx). This position requires a mastery of the hands-on aspects of web interface engineering, an ability to design and build solid front-end architecture and integrate it with a database layer, and the skills to communicate these solutions to other members of the team both verbally and in written documentation. The Data Visualization Team is looking for an experienced developer who possesses an in-depth knowledge of visualization tool creation from front- and back-end software to lead development of IHME’s complex data visualization tools.” The main purpose of the Full Stack Web Developer II is to leverage PHP, the Drupal framework, and other technologies to create custom web applications and internal tools, many of which support the workflows of IHME staff. IHME's ability to deliver high quality and professional web based tools impact IHME's (and thus the UW's) reputation and thus funding streams, the position is critical to promoting IHME effectively as the go-to resource for some of our projects. The high level web based applications are key to the clear representation and ultimate data impact of our highly complex research in the metrical analysis of global health. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/Candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=200942

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)  is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. Our vision is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base so all people live long lives in full health. IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which are cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members. IHME has an exciting opportunity for a Human Resources (HR) Coordinator to join the People and Performance (PNP) team.  The HR Coordinator reports to the Senior Human Resources Manager, providing specialized technical and administrative support for IHME recruitments and Organizational Development and Training (ODT) initiatives. This requires an individual who is detail-oriented and highly organized, has good communication skills both verbal and written, and can juggle multiple tasks and prioritize their own day-to-day schedule with general direction and goal-setting provided by the supervisor. IHME is growing rapidly and expanding the services it provides to its employees. This is a great time to join our team and help develop these new services while building your career in HR. This position is contingent on project funding. RESPONSIBILITIES: Recruitment Oversee the organizational details of managing each recruitment through the UW systems, including, but not limited to, creating positions and requisitions; processing candidate application materials; building application libraries and notifying hiring committee of material locations; scheduling interviews daily; preparing interview materials for managers and candidates; scheduling pre-employment tests; and ensuring all scheduling logistics are coordinated and seamless to create a positive candidate experience. Perform email screens, phone screens, and comprehensive candidate reference checks. Be accountable for closure of recruitments, updating and notifying candidate status, collecting materials for retention, closing down application libraries, and removing advertisements. Manage temporary appointments for onboard student employees, volunteers, contributors, and consultants by reviewing, editing, and drafting position announcements, coordinating hiring committees, posting announcements, processing applications, drafting appointment letters, and assisting with onboarding. Draft staff appointment and contract letters. Maintain updates to IHME’s careers page. Employee administration Participate in new employee onboarding, to include building new employee materials and tracking trainings. Review and update the HR database and Workday to ensure staff and student information is accurate. Routinely review temporary appointments for needed extensions or separations, seeking approvals for extensions as needed. Provide administrative support to People and Performance team processes, to include annual reviews, promotion cycle, position reviews, temporary pay increases, supervisor changes, professional development, and other administrative support as needed. Coordinate exiting staff procedures and ensure appropriate IHME staff are aware of departure in a timely fashion. Actively seek process improvements to help save time and create more transparency in our daily processes. Perform additional duties as assigned that fall within the reasonable scope of the Organizational Development and Training team. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post: https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=201603&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=&szReturnToSearch=1

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. Our vision is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base so all people live long lives in full health. IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which are cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members. IHME has an outstanding opportunity for a Software Development Manager II on our Simulation Science team. The primary purpose of the position is to lead the development, support, and improvement of the team’s vast software portfolio. The Simulation Science team models the impact and cost effectiveness of health care interventions for a variety of stakeholders. The scope of our work is wide. We produce models to compare interventions on maternal and child health, to evaluate new drugs for the treatment of non-communicable diseases, and to gauge the impact of public policy interventions on disease dynamics. This modeling work is done using a flexible, open-source simulation framework run on IHME’s 20,000-core high-performance computing cluster. The SDM II role includes management of software dependencies, both within Simulation Science and across other research teams. The Software Development Manager II  is responsible for improving the efficiency and automation of Simulation Science processes and working with engineers to develop and implement best practices for software development and testing. The Software Development Manager II sets the direction for software development for research. This role is instrumental in assuring the work maintains the highest quality, upholding the reputation of the Institute as setting the gold standard in quality for health metrics, data, and analytic support for policy. This individual will advise a team of engineers and analysts, and consult on the engineering priorities for IHME as a whole. This position will have autonomy to make decisions about software development priorities, design, and implementation. They will lead a group of engineers and supervise numerous staff, many of whom are also supervisors. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/Candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=198949

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. Our vision is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base so all people live long lives in full health. IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which are cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members. IHME has an outstanding opportunity for a Data Extraction Specialist on our Neonatal and Child Health team.   This person will primarily work with an initial focus on blood disorders, anemia, micronutrient deficiencies, hemoglobinopathies, and pregnancy-related health outcomes. The main purpose of this position is to provide highly specialized oversight, guidance, and performance of routine, but complex extraction processes for input data used in modeling at IHME, which will serve research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors. This position will work with a dynamic team of researchers and staff at all levels. The Data Extraction Specialist is expected to become knowledgeable in data pertaining to relevant content areas and will consult with researchers as needed to amass data necessary for analysis, presentation, and publication. To create the array of indicators required, this position provides guidance on the extraction of all available relevant quantitative data from surveys, censuses, literature, administrative records, and primary research datasets into central databases. Relevant data include those on mortality, causes of death, epidemiology, and a range of determinants and risk factors, such as education, income, or air pollution. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=200940&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=&szReturnToSearch=1

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. Our vision is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base so all people live long lives in full health. IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which are cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members. IHME has an exciting opportunity for a Data Extraction Analyst on the Surge Team, supporting the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) study.  The Surge Team is a group of data professionals that support the GBD and other research teams through temporary assignments, providing help with data extraction and transformation, database management, data quality management, data extraction and formatting, modeling, and providing key inputs for publications and presentations. Support from Surge Team members is often requested to help teams during crunch times, with unexpected challenges or delays, or where staffing has fallen short. Data Extraction Analysts must develop an understanding of different research needs and analytic functions across multiple projects to best meet researcher needs. A core research area for IHME is the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors study (GBD). A systematic, scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geography over time, the GBD is the largest and most comprehensive effort to date to measure epidemiological levels and trends worldwide. The GBD’s aim is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base to make decisions that achieve better health. The main purpose of this position is to provide highly specialized oversight and guidance of routine but complex extraction processes for input data used in modeling, papers, and presentations at IHME. The Data Extraction Analyst will provide support to key research projects through data extraction and formatting, and providing inputs for papers and presentations. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=200941&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=&szReturnToSearch=1

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)   is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including: the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Costs and Cost Effectiveness; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. Our vision is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base so all people live long lives in full health. IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which is cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members. IHME has an exciting opportunity for a Human Resources Manager to join the People and Performance team.   This position will provide institute-wide support with talent acquisition and employee engagement by partnering with management to develop, implement, and meet assigned goals and objectives. This position requires previous experience and developed expertise in recruiting. The HR Manager must understand organizational complexities, reporting relationships, and specific roles and responsibilities across IHME and within the broader context of the UW’s administration of policies and procedures. We are looking for someone who is excited to positively, creatively, and strategically contribute to IHME as the Institute continues to grow. This position is contingent on project funding availability. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&jobhistory=1&szOrderID=201265

IHME has an outstanding opportunity for a Data Analyst on our Surge Team, supporting the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors enterprise (GBD).   A systematic, scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geography over time, the GBD is the largest and most comprehensive effort to date to measure epidemiological levels and trends worldwide. The GBD’s aim is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base to make decisions that achieve better health. The Surge Team supports research teams through temporary assignments to help meet deadlines, manage unexpected challenges or changes in scope, and fill in where staffing has fallen short. The main purpose of the Data Analyst position is to provide support to key research projects through database management, data quality management, computational support to multidisciplinary research projects, data extraction and formatting, and providing key inputs for papers and presentations. Data Analysts must develop an understanding of different research needs and analytic functions across multiple projects to best meet research needs. Data Analysts must be able to independently translate requests into actionable results through interactions with research databases, formulation of displays of results, and development of complex code to be applied to a variety of quantitative data. This position calls for dexterity working with complex databases and the ability to assess, transform, and utilize quantitative data using multiple coding languages (R, Python, SQL, Stata). The individual must then quality control results to ensure that other team members have exactly what they need to incorporate the data and results into their own components of the analytic process, presentations, and papers. Additionally, this position will work alongside other Data Analysts on complementary projects and will require knowledge and skill sharing and collective problem solving. Overall, the Data Analyst will be a critical member of an agile, dynamic team. This position is contingent on project funding availability. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=199817&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=&szReturnToSearch=1

The Department of Health Metrics Sciences (HMS) applies innovative, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive health metrics science to critical health problems and their drivers, and collaborates worldwide in pursuit of policy impact, change in practice, and dissemination of information to improve health for all people. HMS advances the field and the Academy through nurturing and training the next generation of diverse and high-potential scientists and leaders with mentorship by renowned faculty, and with access to top-tier data, resources, infrastructure, and networking strategies. Faculty, staff, and students within HMS collaborate extensively with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). IHME is an independent research center at the University of Washington whose mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Costs and Cost Effectiveness; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. Our vision is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base so all people live long lives in full health. HMS and IHME are committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which are cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of the entire HMS and IHME communities. We have an outstanding opportunity for a Director, Academic Programs to join the team.   HMS was founded in July 2018 and is the world’s first academic department devoted to the science of health metrics. As a new department, we are looking to hire an individual who will provide vision and leadership to further grow the academic department by providing administrative leadership in the overall direction and management for HMS academic programs and department needs. Under the general supervision of the Associate Chair for Academic Programs, the Director, Academic Programs establishes and maintains program operations in all areas, including academic and student services, accreditation & reporting, advancement, recruiting, assessment, admission, budgeting, communication, curriculum development and management, enrollment management, policy development, strategy and collaboration, and records management. This position is contingent upon project funding availability. RESPONSIBILITIES: Academic program planning and management • Provide overall oversight, leadership, and communication for the department’s academic programs by developing, implementing, and monitoring the strategic plan and goals for academic program growth. • Develop, maintain, and understand policies and procedures relevant to the HMS department to comply with UW, state, and federal regulations. • Develop relationships across campus to effectively execute departmental goals, to advocate for exceptions or flexibility where needed, and to keep the department apprised of issues impacting department and/or students. • Manage efforts for program evaluation, including 5- and 10-year academic program review, and ongoing departmental self-evaluation. • Oversee the department website, including all aspects of department functions: outreach activities, research enterprises, faculty bio-sketches and publications, and training programs. • Direct curriculum planning management, administering curriculum change, course change/creation, and submission of proposals through relevant college and university approvals (CEP, Graduate School, FCAS, etc.). • Provide leadership and oversight to ensure teaching faculty can run their courses successfully, for example, building and updating course websites and developing and organizing course materials. • Coordinate HMS student and academic appointee hiring needs with IHME Academic Human Resources. • Ensure a process is in place to comply with UW records management directives. Business planning and management • Lead HMS DEI committee collaborating closely with IHME’s Chief Diversity Officer to influence, develop, and measure success of DEI initiatives. • Plan, research, secure commitment and resources for new academic programs, for example, self-sustaining, online, and or additional degree programs. • Develop and/or identify, in collaboration with the Chief Philanthropy Officer and the Proposal Development team, opportunities to provide scholarship, fellowship, and other funding opportunities for students to underpin department finances and support the growth and diversity of student success. Liaise with university offices responsible for managing and growing student funding. • Liaise with Finance, Planning, and Operations (FPO) and Organizational Development and Training (ODT) at IHME to assess value of various programs for students, employees, and toward building the sciences of health metrics more globally. • In coordination with FPO and ODT, participate in annual budgetary planning and manage the overall annual budget for academic programs, graduate research assistantships, and student services. • Create ownership and traction around the HMS “brand,” for example, through the HMS Lecture Series, collaborations with other departments, department newsletter, and marketing and development materials for the degree programs. • Manage the PhD Program Manager, Degree Program and Fellowship Manager, and other staff as we grow, to include hiring and training, managing workflow and guiding priority setting, and contributing to professional growth and performance assessments for supervisees. • Oversee the Post-Bachelor Fellowship program (program planned to be discontinued; last cohort graduates August 2023). • Participate in professional development opportunities to expand knowledge base for the position. Academic advising and student services • Provide leadership and direction to the Academic Programs Management group. Lead facilitation of the group and the planning efforts undertaken. • Oversee the program staff for timely, accurate, and constructive advising services to HMS students ensuring strictest standards of confidentiality and discretion. Provide backup advising for graduate advisers. • Develop and support a faculty-student advising program through individual consultations and training resources. • Assist and support the program managers in ensuring compliance with relevant policies relating to the handling of admission materials and decisions. Ensure alignment of admissions policies with outreach, recruitment, and diversity goals. • Track funding status of current graduate students (RA, TA, UW fellowships, external fellowships). • Support program managers and department leadership in responding to academic and non-academic conduct cases. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: • Bachelor’s degree in administration, education, educational leadership and administration, or related field and five years of increasingly responsible experience in university academic programs, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: • Demonstrated experience and competence in working with curricula and/or students at a college-level academic program, program leadership, business planning, and supervision of employees. • Previous experience with developing certificate programs and/or remote learning programs. • Experience with interpreting and/or developing university policies in admissions, advising, and program curriculum. • Adept diplomacy and exemplary interpersonal skills required. Must be agile at forming respectful and rewarding relationships with people with different levels of experience and expertise from a variety of cultural, linguistic, and professional settings. • Exceptional listening skills and ability to relate to, influence, and persuade to achieve departmental goals. • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and collaborative environment while competently managing multiple priorities and/or having to pivot quickly with changing priorities to meet deadlines, all the while with a can-do attitude. • Ability to examine, evaluate, and redesign administrative operations and procedures. • Ability to maintain forward momentum and thrive in the unknown and ambiguous. • Deep desire to contribute to global health and research. • A commitment to working to alongside others at IHME to illuminate the health impacts of systemic racism and to work within IHME to make our organization more diverse and inclusive. See IHME’s DEI statement here:   http://www.healthdata.org/get-involved/careers/dei  WORKING CONDITIONS: • Weekend and evening work sometimes required. • This position is open to anyone authorized to work in the US. The UW is not able to sponsor visas for staff positions. • The University of Washington requires students and personnel to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. To learn more about the requirements, please review the following:   https://www.ehs.washington.edu/covid-19-prevention-and-response/uw-covid-19-vaccination-policy?_ga=2.31959098.540467107.1629831944-1755727657.1623616042. • This position is located in Seattle, Washington. Position is required to work in office, with a hybrid option available, for in-person student activities. Application Process: The application process for UW positions may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process.  These assessments may include Workforce Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others.  Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready.  Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. Our vision is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base so all people live long lives in full health. IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which are cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members. The Global Impact Group (GIG) stewards IHME’s mission to deliver timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to inform health policy and practice. Within GIG, the Digital Experience (DigX) team aims to boost the impact of our population health evidence, taking human-centered design approaches to the definition, rollout, and improvement of scalable online tools for key audiences such as scientists, policymakers, civil society organizations, and the media. The Digital Experience (DigX) team is new to IHME, and we are looking for an Experience Designer with a broad skillset with depth in research.  We are modernizing our existing online presence and need to start identifying opportunities for new tools and experiences. We are looking for someone to bring experience deconstructing complex design challenges and transforming them into simple, intuitive solutions. Our organization is steeped in rigorous scientific research, so we are excited about people who are intellectually curious about public health data and have a track record of simplifying experiences that display data and graphic visualizations. Customer Advocacy You will promote the value of human-centered design within the organization and advocate on the customer’s behalf as you collaborate and review your design solutions with multiple internal teams. User Experience Design and Strategy Lead with Design Thinking methods to facilitate discovery activities, define problems, and create hypotheses. This role will be improving information architecture, interactions, and visual design. You will have the opportunity to use multiple methodologies to produce deliverables such as user flows, interactive prototypes, customer journey maps, and service blueprints. Know how to develop and communicate a vision, bring concepts to life, then iterate and refine them as you gather and factor in customer research and business requirements. You are skilled in using data to make decisions (analytics, user research, industry best practices) and can navigate between multiple teams to collaborate on solutions. Research You’ll explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary qualitative and quantitative research. Match research methods to design challenges and conduct activities such as task analysis, contextual inquiries, in-depth interviews, participatory workshops, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis. You will also dive into information architecture using methods such as tree testing and card sorting. Digital Brand Stewardship and Team Building As a founding member, you will have the opportunity to have input on new processes and tools that will help the team run smoothly, including establishing a new design system. You will be excited about building and establishing new relationships with new colleagues and teams. You aren’t afraid to experiment, wear many hats, and grow with the team. This position is contingent upon project funding availability. RESPONSIBILITIES: UX design and strategy • Create or refine problem statements and then design digital product solutions. • Ideate and prototype using methods borrowing from multiple disciplines, including design thinking, product design, psychology, and marketing. • Use a full-scale human-centered design (HCD) process to create experiences for web, email, and marketing campaigns. • Help guide product strategy and make design decisions that align to the user experience vision and roadmaps. • Partner closely with the development team to consult on challenges that arise when implementing designs, update design specs to match decisions made during the build, and validate all experiences before they are passed through cross-device testing. • Collaborate with data visualization, graphic design, web content, and global engagement and outreach teams to ensure a consistent user experience across digital products. • Create mobile-first designs that will scale across tablet and desktop breakpoints. • Reorganize and label web products using information architecture best practices. • Consult with other teams and provide feedback on their mockups and usability work that is outside of the prioritized product portfolio. • Establish and grow a digital design system that supports the IHME brand and provides consistency across the web in partnership with the brand stewards in social media and graphic design. Research • Identify research questions and facilitate the definition of hypotheses to prove or disprove. • Select appropriate research methods for a variety of business and customer design challenges. • Design and synthesize qualitative and quantitative studies. • Conduct heuristic evaluations and/or cognitive walkthroughs to help generate an ongoing backlog. • Communicate user research findings with cross-functional partners to drive organizational change and support your UX designs. Communication • Collaborate closely with scientific research teams, graphic designers, editors, developers, product owners, and other members of the Global Impact Group to create and improve digital experiences on IHME’s platforms. • Participate in the quality assurance (QA) process to ensure new or existing features conform to high UX and development standards. • Align UX thinking to technology/frameworks decisions, project management, communications, support, and product strategy. • Understand product specifications and document design work. • Work with the program manager to ensure ongoing success of digital products at reaching target audiences and inspiring desired responses. Knowledge Command • Have a working knowledge of Design Thinking, human-centered design (HCD), a mix of UX research methods, designing accessible interfaces, and creating mobile-first designs that will scale across multiple breakpoints. • Understand IHME’s health research and be eager to learn about global health and the significance of key findings in the broader global health context; employ subject-matter knowledge to deliver key findings in ways best suited for target audiences. • Keep abreast of digital products from other public health and public policy organizations. • Have a working knowledge of web technologies and the software development process. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: • Master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, math, economics, quantitative social sciences, or related and four years of related work experience OR equivalent combination of education/experience. Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: • Two years of demonstrated experience in creating and implementing successful UX designs AND one year of conducting a mix of research methods to support your design work such as, but not limited to, user interviews, usability studies, tree testing, cognitive walkthroughs, heuristic evaluations, and card sorting. • Proficient with prototyping and collaboration tools such as Figma and Mural. • Experience presenting and discussing design decisions with stakeholders with researched rationale. • Ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment. • Professional written and interpersonal skills when communicating with colleagues, customers, and clients. • Diplomatic and exemplary interpersonal skills required. Must be agile at forming respectful and rewarding relationships with people with various levels of experience and expertise from a variety of cultural, linguistic, and professional settings. • High proficiency of various UX methods and tools, including, but not limited to wireframes, journey mapping, information architecture, prototyping, documentation, evaluative and generative research. • A commitment to working to alongside others at IHME to illuminate the health impacts of systemic racism and to work within IHME to make our organization more diverse and inclusive. See IHME’s DEI statement here:   http://www.healthdata.org/get-involved/careers/dei.    DESIRED REQUIREMENTS: • A degree in user experience, human-centered design, interaction design, marketing, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Five years of demonstrated experience in creating and implementing successful UX designs and undertaking UX research processes. • Experience developing tools that serve global audiences with a variety of cultural and linguistic settings, and with varying levels of technological access. • Knowledge of content management systems purpose and structure. • Experience working in an Agile team environment. WORKING CONDITIONS: • This position works on a global team and with a global network of stakeholders; as such, evening and weekend work may be required to fulfil job duties. • This position is open to anyone authorized to work in the US. The UW is not able to sponsor visas for staff positions. • Office is in Seattle, Washington. This position is eligible to work fully remote within the United States. Schedule can be flexible, final schedule will be determined by supervisor and team needs. Application Process: The application process for UW positions may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process.  These assessments may include Workforce Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others.  Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready.  Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. Our vision is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base so all people live long lives in full health. IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which are cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members. IHME has an outstanding opportunity for a Program Coordinator   that will provide day-to-day program support performing complex and varied fiscal and administrative functions within IHME and supporting the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios research and the UW Population Health Initiative programs. The Program Coordinator serves as a resource and a point of contact for accurate information about these programs in relation to events, conferences, summits, and key research deliverable timelines. This position requires an individual to build effective working relationships with individuals within and outside the organization from a variety of professional levels and backgrounds while exhibiting poise, responsiveness, a keen awareness of details, and impeccable integrity when dealing with sensitive materials and topics. The individual will independently provide overall effective and efficient communication and coordination for each program, interpreting and applying policies, guidelines, and procedures to answer inquiries from faculty, fellows, staff, students, and global external collaborators. The individual must develop an awareness of the research context of the programs they partner with in order to best understand priorities and execute work against demanding deadlines and while juggling multiple tasks. Additionally this position operates the reception desk and is the dedicated resource to IHME faculty, staff and visitors. The Program Coordinator is the initial contact for visitors to the Institute. This position is key to presenting a first impression of the Institute in the best manner possible and requires a high level of professionalism. This role will be an active member of the Financial Planning and Operations team and will report to the Assistant Director of Administration. This position is contingent upon project funding availability. RESPONSIBILITIES: Program support and coordination Provide accurate and efficient communication to staff, faculty, fellows, and the public with information and interpretation of policies and procedures related to the program’s specialties. Coordinate and lead meetings with faculty and staff to schedule out projected events/meetings, determining scope and necessary elements. Lead and meet timelines for these projects as assigned by program directors. Manage and organize conferences, summits, and guest speaking events with internal and external collaborators, government officials, media, and public and private institutions, to include coordinating meeting logistics, scheduling appointments and meetings, coordinating travel arrangements, and preparing business visa application documents for faculty and visitors as needed. Assist program heads with composing or editing reports and meeting presentation materials per IHME’s style guidelines. Initiate purchases of goods, services, and supplies in accordance with UW policies and procedures as needed, check order status and resolve problems efficiently and effectively. Analyze and process expense reports, reimbursements, and check requests in an accurate and timely fashion. Identify mechanisms to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, and streamline work processes. Reception support Provide assistance with day to day front desk duties, to include, but not limited to: answering phones, maintaining front desk email account and schedule, greeting visitors and facilitating smooth transitions to meetings, ordering business cards, providing estimates for shipping, packaging  and entering requests, receiving and notifying for packages, maintaining various logs, daily kitchen and conference room upkeep, and working with building management and staff for facility operations. Professionally conduct work with the highest level of integrity and discretion as it relates to international visitors and dignitaries, faculty, staff, and students. Assist with Institute administrative tasks, including but not limited to: assembly of professional documents for Scientific Oversight Group (SOG) and IHME Board of Directors, data entry and moderate clerical support for presentation materials. Utilize independent judgment and discretion while engaging with internal and external collaborators, government officials, media, and public and private institutions and representatives. Other duties as assigned. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: High school graduation or equivalent AND two years of experience in supporting a program and/or executives OR equivalent education/experience. Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: Adept diplomacy and exemplary interpersonal skills required. Must be agile at forming respectful and rewarding relationships with people with different levels of experience and expertise from a variety of cultural, linguistic, and professional settings. Ability to react with appropriate levels of urgency and creatively solve problems to situations and events that require quick response or turnaround. High level of integrity and discretion in handling confidential information and dealing with professionals inside and outside the company. Strong MS Office software skills – proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, email, calendaring, and scheduling are minimum requirements. Track record of being organized and detail-oriented, with an ability to work both independently and collaboratively to achieve objectives. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and collaborative environment to manage multiple priorities while coordinating resources needed to meet deadlines. Flexibility and willingness to assume new tasks or special projects. Flexibility to work nights and weekends a must. Interest in learning about the Institute’s work and an ability to clearly relate and communicate its work. A commitment to working to alongside others at IHME to illuminate the health impacts of systemic racism and to work within IHME to make our organization more diverse and inclusive.  See IHME’s DEI statement here:    http://www.healthdata.org/get-involved/careers/dei WORKING CONDITIONS: Weekend and evening work sometimes required. This position is open to anyone authorized to work in the U.S. The UW is not able to sponsor visas for staff positions. This position is located in Seattle, Washington working in-person at the IHME office on UW Campus. Application Process: The application process for UW positions may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process.  These assessments may include Workforce Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others.  Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready.  Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)   is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. Our vision is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base so all people live long lives in full health. IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which are cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members.   IHME has an exciting opportunity for a full-time Software Engineer to join the Simulation Science team. The Simulation Science team models the impact and cost effectiveness of healthcare interventions for a variety of stakeholders.  The scope of our work is wide.  We produce models to compare interventions on maternal and child health, to evaluate new drugs for the treatment of non-communicable diseases, and to gauge the impact of public policy interventions on disease dynamics.  This modeling work is done using a flexible, open-source simulation framework run on the IHME’s 20,000-core high performance computing cluster.  Our key work is to support research on public health intervention models using a state-of-the-art, open source simulation framework written in Python.  As a Software engineer on the Simulation Science team, you will: Design, implement, and optimize framework features. Implement sophisticated simulation models. Build large scale data processing pipelines. Help create bulletproof distributed systems to run our simulations in high performance computing clusters. Build web dashboards to monitor production systems and analyze simulation results. This position is contingent upon project funding availability. RESPONSIBILITIES: Software Development Create and implement software solutions to turn experimental research methods into a production-ready code base. Redesign and refactor existing code to improve efficiency, operability, and performance while maintaining high-quality results. Optimize code efficiency and parallelize across a massive computing cluster to enable researchers to quickly produce results. Enforce and assure the quality of IHME software products through continuous integration, automated unit testing, code versioning, and code coverage tools. Planning  May mentor other staff. Explore new technologies and make recommendations as to their adoption.  Provide input to timelines to deliver both iterative milestones and completed products. Research Command  Become familiar with the main operational underpinnings and goals of the Simulation Science project and how those directly relate to key production tools, analytic machinery, data, and diagnostics.   Become familiar with the different components of the analytic process and their purpose. General  Communicate clearly and effectively while contributing as a productive member of the technology team and the Institute as a whole. Other duties as assigned. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field plus three years’ related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: Demonstrated expertise in developing code in Python, Java, R, and/or other coding language. Python most preferred including pandas, NumPy, and xarray. Experience deploying software to Linux servers. Strong sense of focus and attention to detail. Ability to plan and organize technical projects. Works well with others to solve problems, define priorities, and achieve common goals. Demonstrated organizational skills, self-motivation, flexibility, strong communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, energetic, highly creative, entrepreneurial environment. A commitment to working to alongside others at IHME to illuminate the health impacts of systemic racism and to work within IHME to make our organization more diverse and inclusive.  See IHME’s DEI statement here:   http://www.healthdata.org/get-involved/careers/dei   DESIRED REQUIREMENTS: Experience with application containerization using tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Rancher. Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing and regression. Statistics and/or public health interest Experience with relational databases e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL Automation experience WORKING CONDITIONS: Weekend and evening work sometimes required. This position is open to anyone authorized to work in the U.S. The UW is not able to sponsor visas for staff positions. Office is located in Seattle, Washington. This position is eligible to work fully remote in the US.  Application Process: The application process for UW positions may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process.  These assessments may include Workforce Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others.  Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready.   Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed. Applicants considered for this position will be required to disclose if they are the subject of any substantiated findings or current investigations related to sexual misconduct at their current employment and past employment. Disclosure is required under   Washington state law .

IHME has an exciting opportunity for a Data Specialist on the Surge Team.  The Surge Team contributes to various research areas through limited-term assignments on research teams to help meet critical deadlines, manage unexpected challenges or changes in scope, and fill in where staffing has fallen short. The Data Specialist will make use of innovative, cutting-edge analytic methods to help produce comparable estimates of the impact of diseases, injuries, and risk factors across the globe and must develop an intellectual agility to traverse many types of data and analyses. We are looking for someone who has a command of a variety of research needs and analytic functions. The Data Specialist must be able to independently translate requests into actionable results by writing and implementing novel code. The individual must be adept at navigating complex databases and analytic engines, be able to design and interpret diagnostics, and troubleshoot problems in order to resolve them. They must be able to independently interpret results to assess their quality and must be able to assess, transform, and utilize a broad array of quantitative data using multiple coding languages (Python, R, SQL, Stata). Frequently, the individual will be given assignments where a desired end result is identified but there is no preset path laid for achieving it. The individual, therefore, must carry out individual planning and problem solving to resolve computational questions and produce results. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=200299&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=&szReturnToSearch=1

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington has been one of the leading organizations providing data for science-based decision-making during the COVID-19 crisis, decisions that have led to increased public safety measures. IHME funds its work in part through a social enterprise –   IHME Client Services   – that licenses access to IHME’s data to support IHME’s work. IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which are cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members. IHME Client Services shares IHME’s mission to create a world in which everyone can live a long life in full health. We have built a team culture that is positive, inclusive, and fun. In the spirit of collaboration, we share praise with each other and welcome constructive critique. Everyone on the team knows that we succeed together, fail together, and adapt our approach together, whenever necessary. That is how we will ultimately drive down inequalities globally and make a healthier world for all. IHME Client Services is seeking candidates for an Engagement Manager to help us build our client portfolio as we work to advance IHME’s mission of improving equity globally.   The Engagement Manager will serve as a relationship manager with organizations, marketing our data and services, and guiding organizations in the use of data. This role can be fully remote with travel, barring travel restrictions, to Seattle and to client offices worldwide. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&jobhistory=1&szOrderID=200237

IHME has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Manager on the Neonatal and Child Health team focused on developing improved estimates of anemia, micronutrient deficiencies, and hemoglobinopathies including sickle cell disease.  The Research Manager provides leadership, management, and supervision within the assigned research team. Working with a Research Team Lead or manager, the individual helps drive effective resource allocation, team building, and coordination that result in the production of estimates and interim deliverables on a timeline basis. This position will be integral to the annual goal-setting and scoping processes, and monitoring progress against them. The incumbent brings deep subject matter expertise in anemia, nutrition, and neonatal and child health and has high intellectual agility and deft strategic planning skills to push the team to meet high-pressure deadlines for research deliverables. The Research Manager is a key driver in the performance, quality, and efficiency required to routinely produce high-quality, policy-relevant health indicators for their team(s). The Research Manager must be adept at facilitating communication among technical and project staff with varying degrees of experience from a variety of cultural settings and disciplines. The position is integral to IHME’s progress on key research projects and its production of deliverables such as research articles, policy-relevant estimates of health indicators, conference presentations, and reports. Progress toward project goals and delivery on objectives is crucial to IHME’s success at expanding the quantitative evidence base for population health. Overall, the Research Manager will be a critical member of an agile, dynamic team. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:  https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&jobhistory=1&szOrderID=200300

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has an exciting opportunity to join the team as a Project Officer on the Pandemics team.   IHME’s Pandemics team focuses on generating COVID-19 projections for the globe by developing and conducting novel analysis to measure the COVID-19 pandemic. The primary purpose of this position is to ensure the timely production of high-quality estimates on a regular basis, in a way that maximizes efficiency and coordination across the team and enhances team morale. This individual needs to bring high intellectual agility and deft planning and organizational skills in order to push the team to meet high-pressure deadlines for research deliverables. The Project Officer is a key driver in the performance, quality, and efficiency required by the team to routinely produce high-quality, policy-relevant health indicators. This individual must excel at facilitating communication among technical and project staff with varying degrees of experience and from different disciplines. This position is integral to IHME’s progress on pandemics research projects and its production of deliverables such as interactive tools and data visualizations, scientific publications, policy-relevant estimates of health indicators, conference presentations, and materials for non-scientific audiences, such as policy briefings. The Project Officer will manage the results development, production, and dissemination workflow, including cross-cutting coordination between teams within IHME. The Project Officer will help facilitate the modeling of estimates and help to manage various analytic processes that are used to apply innovative analytic methods. For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post:   https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&jobhistory=1&szOrderID=200238