ENGAGEMENT OFFICER
Req #: | 167201 |
Department: | INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH METRICS AND EVALUATION |
Job Location: | South Lake Union |
Posting Date: | 05/13/2019 |
Closing Info: | Open Until Filled |
Salary: | Salary is commensurate with experience and education |
Shift: | First Shift |
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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. IHME carries out a range of projects within different research areas with the aim to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base to make decisions that achieve better health. IHME accomplishes these aims by working with a range of collaborators across the world. Currently, we engage with more than 3,600 collaborators from more than 140 countries.
IHME has an outstanding opportunity for an Engagement Officer with a particular focus on Ethiopia and other countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. The primary purpose of this position is to expand IHME’s impact by engaging, collaborating, and communicating with a diverse network of collaborators who contribute to the science, dissemination, and uptake of IHME’s findings. The Engagement Officer will develop and manage relationships with a variety of external collaborators from governments, multilaterals, donor organizations, health care delivery agencies, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions, finding new ways for them to partner with IHME, and helping to drive forward key deliverables with the aid of critical institutional and individual partners.
The Engagement Officer will exhibit a strong command of the principles of collaboration and will build and maintain constructive working relationships with technical and nontechnical organizations, networks, and individuals with interests in health. They will be adept at facilitating communication among stakeholders and project staff from a variety of cultural settings and disciplines and will be comfortable in a multitude of institutional contexts and environments. They will clearly convey and receive information in a manner that engages the listener, and adjust their message and tone to best engage each audience.
This role will manage relationships with a high degree of strategic foresight, tactical creativity, and diplomacy. In the course of advancing key activities and deliverables, the Engagement Officer will adapt to changing priorities, political landscapes, and other factors affecting collaborative endeavors. As problems appear, they will break them down into their components and make sound, well-informed decisions while being cognizant of interdependencies and interrelationships. They will be adept at influencing complex negotiations and interactions in a politically astute manner and will exercise excellent judgment and diplomacy in acting as a representative for the organization as a whole. Overall, the Engagement Officer will be a critical member of an agile, dynamic team.
The individual in this position will support efforts on the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study with a particular focus on Ethiopia and other countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, playing a central role in the implementation of new and quickly growing collaborations. This collaborative project will produce estimates of the burden of disease in Ethiopia for each of the nine states and two chartered cities, and will support and facilitate the understanding, critique and utilization of these results within Ethiopia. This project represents a deep collaboration and mutual interest of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) in using evidence to drive decisions that improve health. Additionally, this role will develop, manage, and grow collaborations with other institutions and networks within Sub-Saharan Africa more broadly. This position is contingent on project need and funding availability.
Responsibilities include:
Knowledge Command
Engagement and management
Communication
Other responsibilities
As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For detailed information on Benefits for this position, click here.
REQUIREMENTS:
Additional Requirements:
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.
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CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
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