RAFT Consortium Chief Executive Officer (0.6FTE)

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Division of Illness Management
Wage: 
£51,299 to £58,723
each year, professional rata.
Closing Date:  Monday 22 January 2024
Reference:  ITD-DCD-2024-01

The London Faculty of Hygiene & Tropical Medication is a world-leading centre for analysis and postgraduate schooling in public and international well being. Our mission is to enhance well being and well being fairness within the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to realize excellence in public and international well being analysis, schooling and translation of data into coverage and observe.  

May you be part of our management group, and assist our analysis on vector borne ailments in Africa and Asia?

The LSHTM is looking for a CEO to assist in the administration of the ‘Resilience In opposition to Future Threats’ (RAFT) Analysis Programme Consortium (RPC). RAFT is funded by FCDO, and its mission is analysis that will probably be of sensible profit to nationwide programmes for the management of vector-borne ailments particularly malaria.    

One strand of our work considerations the arms race in opposition to insecticide resistance in African malaria vector mosquitoes, and particularly the method of selecting essentially the most cost-effective insecticidal interventions within the face of advanced geographic variation in resistance and a restricted quantity of epidemiological trial proof. The opposite strand is addressing the extra strategic and longer-term threats going through vector management, together with the rise of Aedes-borne viruses in Africa, and the consequences of anthropogenic modifications within the environments wherein we stay.      

RAFT is a 6-year programme and we’re in our fourth 12 months. The Consortium companions are the London Faculty of Hygiene & Tropical Medication, the Centre for Analysis into Infectious Illness Cameroon, the Institut Pierre Richet in Côte d’Ivoire, the Nationwide Institute for Medical Analysis (NIMR) in Tanzania, the School of Tropical Medication of Mahidol College in Thailand, and the Malaria Consortium.    

We’re searching for a CEO who will be part of the management group based mostly within the LSHTM.  This can be a senior function with operational accountability throughout all of RAFTs actions, together with its analysis, its governance buildings and workings as a partnership, its relationship with FCDO and the supposed customers of the information outputs. You’ll work intently with RAFT’s two Principal Investigators/Analysis Administrators, who’ve strategic accountability for the analysis.    

Candidates will need to have a postgraduate diploma in growth and/or public well being, in addition to substantial expertise managing massive analysis or public well being programmes, ideally in low- and middle-income international locations. Additional particulars are included within the job description.  

This publish is part-time at 0.6FTE and is accessible till 30 April 2026. The publish could be based mostly both within the UK on the London Faculty of Hygiene & Tropical Medication, or alternatively in an applicable location in Africa. The wage will probably be on the Skilled Companies wage scale, Grade 7 scale within the vary £51,299 – £58,723 each year professional rata (inclusive of London Weighting).  The publish will probably be topic to the LSHTM phrases and situations of service. Annual depart entitlement is 30 working days per 12 months, professional rata for half time workers. Along with this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days.” Membership of the Pension Scheme is accessible.

LSHTM has a Hybrid Working Framework, which alongside agreed service necessities, allows groups to work extra flexibly (if the function permits), selling a higher wellbeing and work/life stability.

Purposes ought to be made on-line through our jobs web site . On-line purposes will probably be accepted by the automated system till 10pm of the cut-off date. Any queries relating to the appliance course of could also be addressed to [email protected] . 

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Please be aware that if you’re shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it is probably not attainable to give you an alternate date.

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