Postdoctoral Researcher

Summary

Full Time, 12 month Contract

The Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Theme (AHE) at SAHMRI, located on the lands of the Kaurna people, is a leading national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led unit dedicated to wellbeing and achieving health equity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia through quality and safe health and medical research.

About the role

The position will require a person to lead the coordination of research activities for a COVID-19 research project, “Capturing the Aboriginal experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic” under the strategic direction of the Co-Theme Leaders and Program Lead: Population Health Research. Reporting to the Program Lead, Population Health, this position will manage research related activities with participants, academic and professional staff within participating organisations and key stakeholders, AHE team.

The role requires a strong ability to work in partnership with the Aboriginal community, including Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, the Research Governance Group, Chief Investigators and South Australian public health stakeholders who are key to the program’s success. The successful applicant will have experience in qualitative methods including semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis, survey development and sound written ability. Supervisory delegation and reports to this position will be at the discretion of the Program Lead.

Key responsibilities include:

- Support the development and implementation of the research project “Capturing the Aboriginal experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic” including community consultations, reporting to the funding body and stakeholder briefings.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to ensure effective implementation of the project, including with community, health stakeholders and project governance group.
- Develop a Project Plan for each Stage of the project in collaboration with the project governance group and Chief Investigators.
- Lead and manage the project to ensure data collection, analysis and interpretation is conducted to a high standard and in a timely manner.
- Promote scholarship and integrity and support a culture of excellence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research.

**About you**:

- Postgraduate qualification in Public Health, Health Services Research, Health Science or a related discipline as well as demonstrated experience contributing to and leading Aboriginal health research projects. Or project management and delivery experience, with demonstrated ability of qualitative interviews, analysis and written skills will be considered without a postgraduate qualification.
- Demonstrated experience or knowledge of the conduct of research processes including ethics submissions, design of study materials, research coordination and implementation within project timeframes.
- Experience in undertaking research with Aboriginal communities.
- Demonstrated experience in design and conduct of qualitative and quantitative (survey) research methods.
- Ability to support members of the research team to achieve project milestones.
- High-level verbal and written communication skills, including academic writing, with the ability to present information effectively and clearly to a wide audience.
- High level organisational skills: the ability to set priorities, meet deadlines, initiate and follow-up actions, with mínimal supervision.

Special Requirements
- Some out of hours work may be required.
- DCSI Employment Screening and Police Checks may be required.
- Some travel interstate and intrastate, including to urban, regional, or remote parts of South Australia may be required.

As a not-for-profit organisation, SAHMRI employees can access salary packaging options up to $15,900 Ordinarily, your employer takes out income tax from your pay and deposits the remainder into your bank account. You then pay all your living expenses - including your rent or mortgage, car repayments, insurances, groceries and utility bills - and if you’re lucky, have a bit left over. But with salary packaging with us, you still get paid the same salary, but we help you pay those same expenses before tax is taken out This creates a huge savings for you - your taxable income could go down, your disposable income could go up, and with some of these expenses already taken care of, you could have more money for other essentials and surprises To play with a calculator to see how much you could save, check out more information on the Maxxia website.

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**Applications close Sunday 8th December, 2024.**
- SAHMRI is a member of the Athena SWAN Science in Australia Gender Equity program. We have been awarded Bronze status for our commitment to advancing the careers of women, trans and gender diverse individuals in STEMM._

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