Senior consultant

This role is for an experienced professional capable of scientific leadership and greater autonomy. A Senior Consultant is expected to provide team leadership, mentor junior staff, and play an active role in business development through existing networks and experience.

Tasks & Responsibilities

Operational/functional

• Lead and manage project activities
• Lead interactions with project stakeholders, clients, and users during all project phases.
• Oversee and perform complex information analysis, data management, and epidemiological analysis.
• Provide high-quality and timely expert service to clients, fostering long-term professional relationships.
• Lead the production of high-quality reports and other project deliverables.
• Mentor junior staff and provide scientific leadership within project teams.
• Actively collaborate with and support colleagues across the company.

Project management

• Apply advanced skills in recognised project management methodologies to oversee and analyse projects. EpiMundi uses PRINCE2 project management approaches – training in this or PMP would be an advantage
• Lead the development of project proposals, including budget preparation, in response to calls for tenders or other identified opportunities
• Manage and monitor project budgets, deliverables and resources, communicating their evolution throughout the project lifecycle.

General responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to improve existing systems and processes.
• Actively identify and pursue opportunities for new projects and activities relevant to the team’s focus and skills
• Act as a senior representative of the company, embodying its values and procedures.

Core Competencies

• Excellent and in-depth understanding of epidemiology, methodologies, and approaches.
• Demonstrated scientific and team leadership skills.
• High-level communication, representational, and interpersonal skills.
• High-level analytical and conceptual abilities.
• Ability to work effectively within small team environments and lead project work remotely.
• A drive for ongoing learning and mentoring others.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential

• Possession of postgraduate qualifications in epidemiology (e.g., PhD degree).
• Demonstrated and extensive experience and competency in epidemiology.
• Excellent command of spoken and written English, particularly for technical writing.
• A strong track record of authoring scientific publications.
• Proficiency with standard office systems and teleconferencing tools.
• Advanced skills in statistical software packages (ideally R).
• Demonstrated experience managing competing priorities within specific timeframes.
• Excellent communication, networking, and relationship-building skills.
• Understanding of and experience with project management principles.

Desirable

• A first degree in veterinary science or another relevant discipline.
• Existing competencies in several of the following advanced software areas :
  • GIS and spatial analysis (e.g. QGIS or R)
  • Advanced use of a variety of R packages for data management, analysis and visualisation
  • Data management tools (including R, SQL and database such as PostgreSQL)
  • Code versioning (Git)
  • Cloud computing (AWS)
• Ability to work in one or more languages other than English.

Other Attributes

• Well-developed analytical skills and the ability to think critically.
• A can-do, positive problem-solving attitude.
• The ability to take initiative and seek practical, effective solutions to challenging problems.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and remain output focused.
• Enthusiasm for travel and new cultures.
• An entrepreneurial perspective and a desire to embrace the challenges and opportunities that working in the private sector offers.