Project Director

8 months ago


Pietermaritzburg, South Africa HSRC Recruitment Full time

**Job Advert Summary**:
**Minimum Requirements**:
**Minimum requirements**:

- Masters degree, in any one of the following areas (or similar):

- MBChB
- Public Health
- Statistics/biostatistics
- Social Science
- Additionally applicants must hold a relevant PhD degree, or demonstrate progress towards a PhD in a relevant field as above.
- Previous project management experience with clinical trials or intervention projects
- A sound conceptual grounding in research methods;
- Good planning and organisational skills, including the ability to working well under pressure;
- Good communication skills (verbal as well as report writing);
- Excellent writing skills necessary for publication in internationally accredited peer-reviewed academic journals, and for drafting briefing papers and reports;
- Intellectual and personal integrity, imagination and drive;
- The ability and enthusiasm to engage as a team player in large scale multidisciplinary research projects, to manage research teams, and to mentor and train team members.
- An established research career as evidenced by publications.
- Proposal writing to secure external funds;
- A valid and unendorsed driver’s license
- Experience working in urban, peri-urban and rural communities, and willingness to work after hours and over weekends and in rural communities
- Bilingual (English and isiZulu)

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Key responsibilities**:

- Support the HIV research agenda of the CCBR and the HSRC;
- Manage research teams and large scale long term research projects;
- Mentor fellow employees and emerging researchers;
- Deliver high-quality results and reports to meet set budgets and deadlines;
- Network with government and other scientists;;
- Conduct high level scholarly research which meets the challenge of peer review, and has both strategic and policy relevance;
- Communicate research findings through modalities like policy briefs;
- Build national and international research links; and
- Manage staff and build capacity within the division.



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