Project Scientist-II

Sitaram Bhartia; New Delhi; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Sitaram Bhartia invites applications for a senior role to provide scientific and technical leadership for the SWAAD-CF study. You will guide formative research, cultural adaptations, and the development of behavior-change materials, while coordinating large-scale field activities with rigorous quality control.

The role requires advanced public health training (PhD or Masters) and substantial experience in community-based nutrition or behaviour change trials, with hands-on statistical analysis

Qualifications

• Experience in community-based nutrition or behaviour change intervention trials.
• Experience with cluster randomized/field trials.
• Experience with dietary assessment methods.
• Experience with protocol and ethics documentation.
• Experience with analysis of large datasets using STATA/R/SPSS.

Responsibilities

• Provide scientific and technical leadership for both phases of the SWAAD-CF study under PI guidance.
• Lead formative research, including qualitative enquiry, CPI development and cultural adaptation of interventions.
• Oversee development, translation and implementation of the SWAAD-CF behaviour-change package and digital materials.
• Coordinate cluster mapping, household listing, cluster allocation, enrolment and follow-up of 1,320 caregiver–infant dyads.
• Supervise intervention delivery, retention, fidelity, reach and process monitoring across clusters.
• Ensure quality implementation of dietary assessments, CPI, anthropometry and other study assessments.
• Oversee the 200-dyad urinary biomarker subset, including SOP compliance and lab coordination.
• Lead training, certification and re-standardisation of field teams in procedures and non-judgmental counselling.
• Supervise Project Scientists-I, Health Visitors and Project Technical Staff; coordinate day-to-day field operations.
• Oversee data management, quality assurance, data cleaning, analysis, reporting, manuscripts and toolkit development.
• Maintain study records, equipment, inventory, expenditure documentation and data confidentiality.
• Provide progress updates to the Co-Investigator and undertake other responsibilities.

Skills

Qualitative enquiry

Education

PhD in Public Health/Nutrition/Community Health/Life Sciences

Masters in Public Health/Nutrition/Community Health

Tools

STATA

R

SPSS

Job description

Join a Team committed toethicalpatient - centered healthcare

Provide scientific and technical leadership for both phases of the SWAAD-CF study under the guidance of the Principal Investigator/Co-Investigators.
Lead formative research, including qualitative enquiry, Cultural Practice Index (CPI) development and cultural adaptation of study interventions.
Oversee development, translation and implementation of the SWAAD-CF behaviour-change package and digital communication materials.
Coordinate cluster mapping, household listing, cluster allocation, participant enrolment and follow-up of 1,320 caregiver–infant dyads.
Supervise intervention delivery, participant retention, fidelity, reach and process monitoring across study clusters.
Ensure quality implementation of dietary assessments, CPI, anthropometry and other study assessments, including supervisory back-checks and inter-observer reliability.
Oversee the 200-dyad urinary biomarker subset, including sampling, SOP compliance, documentation, cold-chain and laboratory coordination.
Lead training, certification and periodic re-standardisation of field teams in study procedures and non-judgmental counselling.
Supervise Project Scientists-I, Health Visitors and Project Technical Staff and coordinate day-to-day field operations.
Oversee data management, quality assurance, data cleaning, analysis, reporting, manuscripts and development of the scale-ready toolkit.
Maintain study records, equipment, inventory, expenditure documentation and ensure data confidentiality, de-identification and secure access.
Provide regular progress updates to the Co-Investigator and undertake other responsibilities assigned by the Principal Investigator/Co-Investigators.

Ph.D. in Public Health/Nutrition/Community Health/Life Sciences or an allied discipline; OR Master’s degree in Public Health/Nutrition/Community Health.

Experience in community-based nutrition or behaviour change intervention trials, cluster randomized/field trials, dietary assessment methods, protocol and ethics documentation, and analysis of large datasets (STATA/R/SPSS).

Experience

At least 4 years’ research or community work experience

Why Join Us

Collaborative Environment

Academic Excellence

Ethical and Patient Centered