EpiMundi isn’t hiring right now but hopes to recruit at least one new consultant in 2025 so keep an eye on our site and EPIVET for updates!
Some of the core skills we would like our new consultants to come with include;
- Excellent organisational skills and time management
- Possession of postgraduate qualifications in epidemiology. This may be a Master’s or PhD degree, or membership by examination of an appropriate professional body (e.g., European College of Veterinary Public Health).
- Demonstrated experience and competency in epidemiology
- Excellent command of spoken and written English. EpiMundi works mostly in English. At least CEFR-level B2 for speaking, and higher for technical writing.
- Experience in authoring scientific publications
- Proficiency with standard office systems (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), email, and teleconferencing (Slack, Meet, Teams)
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly gain competency with new software systems
- Well developed skills in statistical software packages (ideally R statistical environment)
- Experience working autonomously and as part of a small team.
- Experience managing competing priorities within specific timeframes, adaptability, flexibility,
- Willingness to accept changing priorities
- Willingness to occasionally work additional reasonable hours when necessary (e.g., when travelling or when a project deadline requires it).
- Excellent communication, and network and relationship-building skills
- Excellent organisational skills and time management
We also look for
- Epidemiological modelling and quantitative analysis using R
- Management and integration of multiple complex health data sources using R and SQL
- Analysis, visualisation and interpretation of animal health data including (but not restricted to) antimicrobial resistance data
- Antimicrobial usage and resistance surveillance experience
- Development of decision support tools
- Disease surveillance (early detection surveillance approaches, demonstration of freedom)
- Risk analysis experience
- Epidemiological study design capabilities
- Geographical Information Systems expertise
Most experienced candidates will be expected to already have, or possess the demonstrated ability to develop, a sound knowledge of or competencies in some or all of the following;
- Skills in GIS and spatial analysis (QGIS, PostGIS)
- Skills in effective data management (R, PostSQL)
- Competency in SQL (PostgreSQL)
- Code versioning (GIT/Bitbucket)
- Python for both data analysis and software development
- Cloud computing environments (AWS)
- Windows or MacOS, and Linux (Ubuntu)
- Other software development tools including HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP etc.
