Reference No: 491830
Element:  School of Medicine
Work type:  Fixed Term (1 year)

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Overview
The Centre for Applied Health Economics, within the School of Medicine, based at Logan campus, seeks a highly motivated senior researcher with experience of project management to develop and lead economic evaluations and Health Technology Assessments (HTA) for national and state policy makers. The Centre is a self-funding unit, and this new position provides an opportunity to work with an excellent team of health economists in a multi-disciplinary setting, to deliver high quality HTAs and economic advice with significant impact on policy. 

This is a Fixed term (1 Year), Full time position based at the Logan campus.

The Role
Key roles for the successful candidate will be to undertake economic evaluations and HTA's, collaborate on grant applications, and produce high quality research outputs including publications in scientific journals.  The Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics will be expected to have an established area of research and will be encouraged to develop their own programme of research.  They will take a leadership role on tender and grant applications, and provide academic leadership to researchers.

The Person
The successful candidate will have a PhD in Health Economics or another relevant field, together with experience of data analysis, strong organisational skills and must be able to work independently.  They will have substantial experience of designing and undertaking decision analytic model-based economic evaluations. In addition, the successful candidate will have a record of research publications and a strong understanding of the Australian health system and policy-making environment.  This position is for an initial twelve month period, with the possibility of a further contract after this period subject to further funding.

Salary range:
Research Fellow Grade 1: $57,243 - $67,336 per annum. 
Research Fellow Grade 2: $73,388 - $87,151 per annum. 
Senior Research Fellow: $89,901 - $103,664 per annum. 

Further information:
Obtain the position description and application requirements by clicking the following link  Senior_Research_Fellow_Research_Fellow,_Health_Economics_.pdf

For position queries, contact Professor Paul Scuffham, Chair in Health Economics, School of Medicine on +61 (0) 7 3382 1367.

For application queries, contact Ms Emma Barney, Recruitment Officer on +61 (0) 7 3735 3505.

Closing date: 17 September 2010 4.30pm AEST