Scientist (d/f/m) in Health Policy / Global Health Policy Lab / Charité Center for Global Health

The GHPL (www.globalhealthpolicylab.org) aims to be the leading AI-enabled platform designed for health policy-makers, providing comprehensive tools for accessing, comparing, and generating health policies. Its vision ultimately is to make evidence-based health policy development a universal reality. The successful candidate will have a solid background in health policy and come with a high degree of motivation and self-sufficiency, to work independently as well as part of a team. In this role, the candidate will contribute to the delivery of the GHPL-s goals, in collaboration with internal and external partners. A key element of the position will be to contribute to ongoing activities, particularly the development of the annual outlook report of policy trends and the GHPL digital repository. This involves analysing and evaluating health policies, drafting analytic policy-relevant reports and other communication outputs, as well as developing impact narratives on policy-making in global health. The incumbent will participate in project management and conduct, tracking and documenting progress, adapting communications materials for various audiences, organising or facilitating face-to-face and online workshops or policy dialogue events on selected aspects of health policy. In addition, the successful candidate will contribute towards building and maintaining strategic partnerships with global and regional stakeholders from different sectors (international organisations, academia, civil society organisations, government agencies and industry). The successful candidate will be expected to keep abreast of new policy developments including digital tools, and participate in relevant events or conferences, and collaborative visits as needed.

According to Section 110 BerlHG, academic employees are given time for their own academic qualifications.

To be considered applicants should indicate in their cover letter how their experiences match the profile criteria the candidate needs to have:

• A doctoral degree in health policy, public policy, public health, global health, medicine, epidemiology, international relations, or equivalent professional experience in a subject with a strong public health policy component.
• Demonstrated professional experience in health policy with technical knowledge of principles and methods in health policy or public health management.
• Strong analytical skills as applied to health policies and experience in collecting, interpreting and analysing health statistics.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Outstanding communication skills, with proven ability to produce high quality written outputs, e.g. reports or publications.
• Ability to engage with diverse stakeholders in multicultural inter-disciplinary environments.
• Excellent spoken and written English language skills.

The successful candidate will likely also have:

• Well-developed interpersonal skills to work in collaborative environments. Experience working with(in) WHO, the UN or other international organisations or governments.
• Experience in working on health issues and/or policy implementation in different countries would be an asset.
• Evidence of prior interest in global health epidemiology would be advantageous.
• Fluency in German, or other (UN) languages would be highly welcome.