Population Council Post-doctoral Fellow, GIRL Center Jobs in Kenya

Population Council Post-doctoral Fellow, GIRL Center Jobs in Kenya


Position Summary:

The Population Council is seeking a Post-doctoral Fellow focused on adolescent research related to digital access, use, agency, literacy, and harms. The Council is embarking on a bold new Strategic Plan and global research agenda that aims to improve health and development outcomes by asking and answering strategic research questions to tackle pressing social, economic, health, and climate issues worldwide.

The Council’s global and interdisciplinary research brings expertise in demography, epidemiology, biomedical research and product development, economics, public health, sociology, and science communications working across sexual, reproductive health, rights and choice, adolescent health and wellbeing, gender equality, and climate and environmental justice.

Colleagues across the Council conduct rigorous science, generate high quality evidence and innovative data products, and communicate evidence strategically to influence social, economic and health policies and investments at national and global levels.

The Population Council’s Girl Innovation, Research, and Learning (GIRL) Center is a cross-cutting research hub that brings together today’s leading scholars in adolescence to generate, synthesize, and translate evidence effectively for decision-making. The Center envisions a gender-equitable world where girls and boys make a healthy and safe transition into adulthood and reach their full potential. We contribute to this vision by: 1) generating evidence on adolescence, 2) convening key stakeholders and communicating evidence to drive evidence-based policy and practice and 3) growing current and future talent and networks of adolescent researchers and scholars.

In its first five years, the Center made critical contributions to the field, from conducting the most extensive mapping of gender and education players, leading innovative and critical research on child marriage, and studying causal pathways between education and health to launching a series of tools including the Evidence for Gender and Education Resource, the Adolescent Data Hub, and the Adolescent Atlas for Action.

The Center has also convened – in person and online – researchers, donors, advocacy groups and policy makers to examine the evidence and think critically about what girls need as well as what works and what doesn’t to improve their lives. The Center recently launched a new Roadmap to 2030 which will guide its work for the remainder of the decade.

The Post-doctoral Fellow will have the opportunity to learn about and operationalize the Center’s research agenda. They will also learn about the greater needs, challenges, and players within the adolescent space. They will conduct innovative, rigorous, and relevant research on digital access, use, agency, literacy, and harms among adolescent populations. The Fellow will work under the leadership of the Director of the GIRL Center and the supervision of a GIRL Center researcher, in collaboration with other researchers to support the Council’s research agenda on adolescents.

The fellow will be closely mentored by senior GIRL Center staff to ensure they build pertinent research skills and contribute effectively to the Center’s research agenda. The Fellow will also be responsible for disseminating research findings, project development and management, and contributing to or leading fundraising efforts.

This fellowship is limited to citizens of an African country.

Responsibilities:

Contribute to the Center’s innovative and policy/program-relevant research agenda: