Watchboard Analyst

Posted: August 26, 2008
Job No: 2008-0771D
Job Title: Watchboard Analyst
Department: ISIS
Grade/Level: 09
Date Posted: August 13, 2008

The Watchboard Analyst position includes daily surveillance of global H5N1 avian influenza progression. The analyst will be required to work independently or as part of a group on their region of responsibility. An analyst will study and track H5N1 progression using open source media and forward his/her analysis to the Senior Analyst for potential inclusion in the disease tracking portal, the Watchboard. An analyst will be primarily tasked with media, economic, sociopolitical or disease surveillance of a region, in which the analyst has demonstrated adequate regional, cultural and linguistic knowledge. In addition, in order to increase early surveillance capacity, an analyst might be tasked with providing ad-hoc support to other regions analytical cells with heightened avian influenza risk. Analyst will be required to attend an internal training program, which will provide them with necessary tools for research tools operations, standard operating procedures, and analytical methodology for H5N1 surveillance.

Required BA or BS. Preferred M.A. or M.S. in Economics, History, Sociology, Anthropology, International Relations, Political Science or other social sciences. Broad knowledge of regional societal trends, including economics, sociology, demography, and conflict (1 year practical experience or educational background required). Practical expertise with disease surveillance (2 years preferred but not required). Regional historical and economic expertise (2 years preferred but not required). Knowledge of epidemiology preferred.

Currently we are actively seeking candidates with reading proficiency in the following languages:
. Russia & Central Asia: Russian AND/OR Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Georgian, Azeri and Armenian
. Europe: at least two of the following: Combination of Scandinavian languages, Dutch, Spanish, Icelandic, Finnish, Hungarian, Romanian, Danish, Czech/Slovak, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian, Polish.
. Africa: French OR English OR Arabic AND at least one of the following: Swahili, Afrikaans, Amharic, Tigrinya, Somali, or other African languages.
. South and South East Asia: Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Nepalese, Sinhalese, Hindi, Urdu
. East Asia: Chinese, Japanese
. Oceania and Canada: French
. Middle East: Hebrew, Arabic
However, this list is NOT exhaustive and we are always open to applications from qualified candidates with other languages not listed above.

Please refer to job code georgetownu-20080771 when responding to this ad.

Location: Washington, DC
Pay Rate: Open
Job Terms: full time
Company: Georgetown University
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