BEHAVIOURAL SCIENTIST

Closing Date: March 3, 2022

Type of Vacancy: Community Vacancies / Expired Notices

Details of the Post

This position provides specialized technical direction in the analysis of social and behavioral determinants of health in the Region and in the design, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based interventions for responding to the Region’s key health challenges.

Summary of Responsibilities

1. Identify and analyse social and behavioural determinants of health in the Region and support CARPHA and Member States for the development, implementation and evaluation of behavioural change interventions for vector borne diseases, food borne diseases, climate change and health, COVID-19, vaccine preventable diseases, sexual and mental health, chronic diseases and other regional priority health issues.
2. Provide support in the identification and analysis of health disparities in the Region and support Member States in development, implementation and evaluation of strategies to reduce health inequities.
3. Provide advice and guidance to the Agency and Member States for the development of integrated policy responses (Health in All Policies) that target the key social determinants of health.
4. Provide technical support to Member States for improving their institutional capacity to apply behavioural science knowledge in analysing public health issues.
5. Provide technical support to Member States for improving their institutional capacity to plan and design interventions to address behaviour change and health disparities, in particular to develop sound logic models for sexual behaviour change interventions.
6. Develop and manage the execution of CARPHA’s Behavioural Sciences Agenda.

The list of duties in the job description should not be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive. There will be other duties and requirements associated with this post.

Kindly refer to the attached Terms of Reference for additional details on the required qualifications, experience and competencies.

CARPHA reserves all rights in accordance with its’ policies related to conditions of employment.

Applications, including Job Applicant’s Profile Summary Form, Cover Letter and Curriculum Vitae and copies of relevant documents must be submitted by March 3, 2022, to:

The Human Resource Manager
Human Resource Department
Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) Federation Park, Newtown 190324 TRINIDAD
E-mail: hrm@carpha.org