Project Manager – Community-based ear and hearing care research project

Hours: Part time up to 0.6 FTE.

Requests for flexible working options will be considered (subject to business need).

Location: Medical School Teaching Building

Contract: fixed term for 4 years, with possibility of extension (subject to funding)

Applications must be received by midnight of the closing date.

Expected Interview date: To be confirmed

Expected start date: To be confirmed

Applications are invited for the post of Project Manager in the department of Global Health and Infection at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) on the NIHR funded research project entitled ‘Community-based ear and hearing care’. See website for more information: Global Health and Infection - BSMS

The Project Manager will work supporting the Principal Investigator to deliver this externally funded research project with key stakeholders to develop and monitor a project plan, including scope, resource plans and costs of an implementation project based on the outcomes from an initial feasibility project.

About the Community-based ear and hearing care research project :  

Ear disease and hearing loss are common and under-recognised disorders, with 80% of the 1.6 billion with hearing loss living in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Hearing loss affects individuals, society and the economy, through effects on health, education, employment, and community. Recent advances in developing a low-cost high-performance hearing aid could help many, but will fail to support two of the most disadvantaged groups: those with persistent or recurrent ear discharge due to a hole in the ear drum (a disorder called chronic suppurative otitis media, CSOM) and those who are born deaf.

CSOM affects predominantly those in LMICs, and it is thought 250 million are affected. In CSOM a hole in the ear drum leads not only to hearing loss, but also intermittent or continuous discharge of pus that is stigmatising and precludes use of a conventional hearing aid. For those born deaf, hearing aids cannot help as the loss is too severe. In many LMIC communities these children are erroneously assumed to lack intelligence, so denied access to education or means of communication. We will develop capacity in research in ear and hearing care in three low income countries: Zambia, Cambodia and Malawi.

This role will provide day-to-day leadership and management of project, through all aspects of the project life cycle, co-ordinating project partners and team members, managing team members in a matrix environment and liaising closely with the project funder and principal investigator on all aspects of project management.

Please contact Professor Mahmood Bhutta at m.bhutta@bsms.ac.uk for informal enquiries.

The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine, and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.

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The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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