Remote Principal Investigator, Multimodal Survey

ICF; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 119,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF invites applications for a Senior Research Methodologist to serve as Principal Investigator for a methodological experiment assessing hybrid (phone + in-person) survey designs against DHS benchmarks. The role leads a multidisciplinary team and partners with national statistical offices across West and Central Africa, focusing on biomarker data and small area estimation.

The ideal candidate has a PhD in a quantitative field (or master's with extensive experience), deep expertise in complex

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in demography, statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, public health, or related quantitative field; OR a master's with 20+ years of experience.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in survey research design and implementation in public health/population surveys.
• Deep expertise in probability sampling, weighting, complex survey design, and estimation.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall scientific leadership for the experiment from design through implementation, analysis, and dissemination.
• Convene and lead a technical working group of external experts and finalize core design decisions with in-country partners.
• Lead development of the full study protocol and oversee IRB/ethics submissions.
• Direct the analytic core: sampling and power design, dual-frame estimation, non-response and replacement protocol, mode-effects estimation, and small area estimation.
• Lead development of a cost-quality frontier integrating fieldwork data.
• Lead in-country and remote fieldwork support across two design arms with malaria biomarker collection.
• Lead post-hoc simulation of untested designs and translate findings into guidance for future survey designers.
• Lead final report(s) and peer-reviewed manuscripts and represent at conferences.

Skills

Survey design

Probability sampling

Dual-frame estimation

Leadership

Data analysis

Education

PhD in demography/biostatistics

MS with 20+ years experience

Tools

R

Stata

Job description

ICF invites applications for a Senior Research Methodologist to serve as Principal Investigator for a methodological experiment assessing hybrid (phone + in-person) survey designs against DHS benchmarks. The role leads a multidisciplinary team and partners with national statistical offices across West and Central Africa, focusing on biomarker data and small area estimation.

The ideal candidate has a PhD in a quantitative field (or master's with extensive experience), deep expertise in complex