RiceGlobal Health Post-Baccalaureate Fellow

Position: Rice360 Global Health Post-Baccalaureate Fellow
Special instructions to Applicants:
All interested applicants should attach a resume and cover letter in the Supporting Documents section of the application, preferably in a PDF format to avoid any formatting issues.

About Rice:

Boasting a 300-acre tree-lined campus in Houston, Rice University is ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has a 6-to-1 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio, and a residential college system, which supports students intellectually, emotionally and culturally through social events, intramural sports, student plays, lectures series, courses and student government. Developing close-knit, diverse college communities is a strong campus tradition, which is why Rice is highly ranked for best quality of life and best value among private universities.

Rice is also a wonderful place to work. Rice faculty, staff and students share values that are essential to our success as a healthy community. Those values guide our decisions and behaviors and shape Rice's culture. They come through in the way we treat each other and the welcome we extend to our visitors. These values can be recalled simply by our name - RICE - Responsibility, Integrity, Community and Excellence.

Position Summary

The Rice
360 Institute for Global Health Technologies (Rice
360), a multi-disciplinary institute at Rice University, is a leader in global health technology education, research, and implementation, with a distinctive focus on experiential and problem-based learning. Rice
360 develops highly effective, low-cost healthcare solutions addressing critical healthcare needs in underserved communities and educates a cadre of future leaders to continue to innovate and implement solutions. Rice
360 offers a number of award-winning experiential education programs, including a Global Health Technologies Minor, international internships, and Global Health Technologies post-baccalaureate fellowships. Program participants engage directly in the design, fabrication, evaluation, deployment, and global scale of innovative new technologies.

Rice
360 works closely with partners in underserved communities throughout the world, including low- and middle-income countries and the United States. Rice
360 is the lead institution for the Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST
360) program. The NEST
360 alliance is working with African governments to transform hospital newborn care by installing a bundle of rugged devices, educating clinicians to use devices and biomedical engineers to maintain them, and implementing locally-owned data dashboards to drive uptake and quality.

The Global Health Post-Baccalaureate Fellow works in the development of low-cost healthcare technologies designed by Rice
360 and is primarily responsible for supporting research by conducting basic research and prototype development, collecting data, performing basic statistical analysis, proofreading and editing published written work, and drafting abstracts, articles, reports, and other publications. In addition, they assist in project management responsibilities and ensure comprehensive documentation for project longevity. Together with the Director of Technology Development, the Global Health Post-Baccalaureate Fellow will assist in developing new technologies and will interact extensively with clinicians and other external stakeholders for the implementation and improvement of Rice
360 products.

The ideal candidate should have engineering skills and experience in developing medical technology for sustainable use in low- or under-resourced settings, preferably sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in rapid prototyping and design iteration, human factors, and/or design for manufacture. Demonstrated ability for effective project management in an organized, detailed, and collaborative manner is also important.

Workplace Requirements

This is a full-time position (Monday-Friday 8am-5pm) based in Houston, TX, with occasional early morning, evening, or weekend work required to accommodate time zone differences for important meetings with teams across sub-Saharan Africa, in the US, and the UK. Per Rice policy 440, work…