Project Officer; Temporary

Job Description

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research organization at the University of Washington (UW). Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), Injuries, and Risk Factors;
Future Health Scenarios;
Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency;
Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations.

The primary purpose of this position (Payroll

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Pro Staff Temp Position (E S)) is to ensure the timely production of high-quality estimates on a regular basis, in a way that maximizes efficiency and coordination across the team and enhances team morale. This individual needs to bring high intellectual agility and deft planning and organizational skills in order to push the team to meet high-pressure deadlines for research deliverables.

The Project Officer is a key driver in the performance, quality, and efficiency required by the team to routinely produce high-quality, policy-relevant health indicators. This individual must excel at facilitating communication among technical and project staff with varying degrees of experience and from different disciplines.

This position is integral to IHME’s progress on various deliverables, such the estimation for the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) project and HIV forecasting. The Project Officer supports management of the production of deliverables such as interactive tools and data visualizations, scientific publications, policy-relevant estimates of health indicators, conference presentations, and materials for non-scientific audiences, such as policy briefings. This includes management of results development, production, and dissemination workflow, including cross-cutting coordination between teams within IHME.

The Project Officer will help facilitate the modeling of estimates and help to manage various analytic processes that are used to apply innovative analytic methods.

To succeed, the Project Officer must develop a sufficient understanding of team’s intellectual and analytic approach, as well as the inner workings, timelines, and goals. They must also become familiar with the methods and modeling approaches used by the research team. Progress toward project goals and delivery on objectives is crucial to IHME’s success at expanding the quantitative evidence base for population health.

Overall, the Project Officer will be a critical member of an agile, dynamic team. This position is contingent on project funding.

• Develop a command of the intellectual material, and the relevant data, methods, analytic approaches, and results. The individual is expected to develop an astute understanding of the material presented in journal articles, policy reports, and presentations that result from the projects on which they work.

• Become thoroughly familiar with the details of complex interdisciplinary projects included in team's portfolio, including their goals, objectives, and activities. As a knowledgeable resource on a project’s intellectual substance, be integrally involved with all processes and key activities during the lifecycle of the project and be able to summarize the project’s progress to internal and external audiences.

• Develop a command of the computational, diagnostic, and visualization needs of the portfolio and the associated competencies, skills, and resources required to achieve the research goals.

• Facilitate routine and timely development, production, and dissemination of results for complex projects involving cutting-edge quantitative data collation, analyses, and tools for dissemination.

• Turn intellectual agendas set by researchers into action plans that can be implemented effectively across multiple project participants to achieve demanding and time-sensitive project milestones. Confidently and effectively participate in project assignments with a solid grounding in project…