UON Program Coordinator - Health Professional Education Partnership Initiative Jobs in Kenya

UON Program Coordinator - Health Professional Education Partnership Initiative Jobs in Kenya

Funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the College will see researchers in diverse fields share knowledge to better understand the complexities of urban Africa.

The College is made up of senior researchers from five partner universities, namely The University of Ghana, The United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources (Accra, Ghana), University of the Witwatersrand, University of Nairobi, and the University of Cape Town.

The Postdoctoral Fellow will conduct research on Urban Sprawl or Urban Informality in
the African urban context and will be hosted at the School of Built Environment (SBE), University of Nairobi.

The School is seeking for a highly-driven and innovative-thinking candidate to join a cutting-edge inter-disciplinary research team in the Pan African Research College on Sustainable Cities.

The research focus of this aspect of the project is to develop novel urban governance ideas to support academic research and inform urban management policy.

The researcher will be supported by teams
situated in the Cities of Cape Town, Nairobi, Johannesburg and Accra.

The successful candidate will have strong background in Urban Planning and Management,
Environmental Policy, Law or Sciences, Social Sciences, or Humanities.

They must have a strong interest
to pursue socio-environmental system by design frameworks geared towards application.

Postdoctoral candidates should have an earned PhD degree in the required background.

Prior experience in governance or urban studies is a plus but not required.

Must be a self-driven individual with innovative and independent thinking.

Must be organized and detail-oriented. Must have excellent writing and communication skills.

The Position

The position reports to the Principal Investigator and is located in Nairobi.

It is on contractual terms of one
year, renewable based on performance and mutual agreement.

The Program

Health-Professional Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI) - Kenya is a recently awarded grant to the University of Nairobi.

The objective of this grant is to increase capacity for undergraduate and graduate
health professional students in practice-oriented research skills training at the collaborating Kenyan Universities and their affiliated teaching hospitals.

Qualifications and Experience