Scientific and Technical Support Specialist, VRIU/AVAREF Secretariat
Overview
Provide scientific and technical support to the AVAREF Secretariat's implementation of the ecosystem and life cycle approach to capacity strengthening.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain the central registry of Clinical Trial Applications, scientific advice requests, joint reviews, and facilitated registrations.
- Support the joint review workflow, including administrative screening and compilation of reviewer questions.
- Organize and maintain technical documentation for the Clinical Trial Pilot and digital platform.
- Provide technical and logistical support to various AVAREF activities.
- Support literature reviews, background research, and evidence synthesis.
- Assist in preparing briefing notes, technical summaries, and background documents.
- Support the preparation of summary documents and technical reports.
- Assist in setting up and maintaining dashboards and monitoring tools.
- Prepare data-collection instruments for ecosystem assessment surveys.
- Validate and analyze programme data.
- Provide first-line IT support to the Secretariat.
- Contribute to progress briefs, presentations, and reports.
- Facilitate the technical coordination of webinars and virtual trainings.
- Support the synthesis of technical outputs into knowledge products.
- Contribute technical content to advocacy and donor-facing products.
- Assist in the preparation and delivery of training materials and workshop content.
Required Experience
At least 3 years’ professional experience in technical or research support, data or information management, quality assurance, or regulatory affairs support, ideally involving regulatory science, clinical research, or vaccine-related work. Demonstrated experience maintaining registries, databases, or dashboards. Experience with data analysis, survey administration, or information visualization is an asset. Experience supporting virtual events or learning platforms (including Zoom hosting and moderation) is an asset. Skilled in literature review, evidence synthesis, and technical writing. Familiarity with clinical trial, regulatory, or pharmacovigilance concepts is a strong asset. Strong analytical and technical documentation skills, including drafting technical summaries and briefing notes. Excellent coordination and stakeholder engagement abilities. Proven ability to work in multi-disciplinary, multicultural teams and to deliver under tight deadlines. Prior experience with the United Nations system, an international organization, or a nongovernmental organization is an asset.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in pharmacy, life sciences, regulatory science, public health, information management, data science, or a related field is required; an advanced degree is an asset. Specialization in clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, or vaccine science is an asset.