Senior Technical Advisor (Asia Region) – Road Injury Surveillance At Vital Strategies

Vital Strategies is providing technical assistance to cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to improve their capacity for public health surveillance and analysis to guide and monitor interventions to reduce road traffic deaths. The Senior Technical Advisor, Asia Region will be responsible to support city government agencies in enhancing road safety surveillance systems.

This posting is for a position to be based in Asia Region. While work will initially be conducted remotely, international travel will be required once safe for onsite engagement, technical assistance, and coaching/mentorship activities.

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, comprehensive healthcare, and Paid Leaves so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about. Compensation will be based on where you live and work.

This role is not open to relocation support and candidates must have prior work authorization and/or eligibility to work where they are located.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support, guidance, and technical assistance to city governments for road injury and fatality data sources, analytics, coordination, integration, and use
• Conduct of comprehensive baseline road injury surveillance system assessments in up to 5 cities; identification of strengths, gaps, and institutional opportunities in the police, transport, and health sectors.
• Development of strategic plans to improve city road safety surveillance systems over a 4-year period, according to baseline assessments conducted. Identification of institutional opportunities for embedded staff placement, workplans, and staffing/collaboration plans in up to nine cities.
• Development, adaptation, and delivery of training and capacity building modules on various aspects of road safety surveillance, including data management, analysis, visualization, geographic information management and spatial analysis, and data use for planning, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Mentoring and training/capacity building of local embedded surveillance coordinators and other team members in up to nine cities to implement work plans. Work plans will include: improve crash data system structure, injury coding and documentation practices, data quality monitoring and validation, analysis and visualization of data, geocoding and spatial analysis of data, and development of comprehensive reports and other products to promote evidence-based planning and monitoring.
• Supporting development or enhancement of comprehensive road safety outcomes reports at least annually, and dissemination of core indicators to initiative partners at least annually.
• Providing technical support and operational oversight to city staff to conduct data linkage and mortality re-estimation exercises. This will include identifying co-investigators, drafting research protocols, facilitating human subjects ethical review by participating institutions, developing detailed operational workplans and budgets, monitoring study conduct, overseeing data analysis, and writing reports and manuscripts.
• Preparation of annual standardized reports on observational road user behavior data in collaboration with technical partner Johns Hopkins University, according to agree on templates.
• Other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education and Degree –

• Graduate degree in public health, engineering, or other relevant field, doctoral level preferred.

Skills and Abilities –

• Facility with geographic information system (GIS) methods, software, and specific application in road safety; or preparedness to develop these skills within the first six months
• Proven capacity to work with colleagues in multidisciplinary or multi-agency setting and to interact with senior public servants and heads of department
• Ability to coach, mentor, and train individuals or small teams in data system development, data management and analysis, and scientific writing
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Language Proficiency –

• Languages: English language proficiency is required. Language(s) of at least one initiative partner country (such as India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Malaysia) will be an asset.

Experience:

Required –

• Minimum 12 years of overall experience or 5 years with doctoral level with experience in data management, analysis, and reporting related to public health, transportation/mobility or public policy

Preferred –

• Familiarity with road safety policy and factors impacting road traffic injury risk
• Demonstrable understanding of and experience working with government structures.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements:

• Ability to travel
• Willingness and ability to work across different time zones