Post-Doctoral Scientist- Wastewater Environmental Surveillance

Requirements

• PhD in Genomics, Molecular Biology, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Microbiology, or related field
  
• Relevant professional certification
  
• Demonstrated experience in: Wastewater/environmental surveillance, Pathogen genomics and/or metagenomics and One Health surveillance systems
  
• Experience working with government agencies, ports/airports, or public health institutions
  
• Proven capacity in training, stakeholder engagement, and policy translation
  
• Strong understanding of gender and youth inclusion in capacity-building programs
  
• Excellent analytical, writing, and communication skills
  

• Conduct research on wastewater and environmental surveillance activities at airports and ports of entry in Kenya to strengthen public health and ecosystem protection under a One Health approach
  
• Plan, coordinate and facilitate capacity-building workshops and document proceedings and outcomes
  
• Design and implement awareness-raising activities targeting relevant stakeholders at ports of entry and prepare comprehensive activity reports
  
• Support the generation, analysis and integration of wastewater metagenomics datasets into the Ministry of Health (MoH) dashboard in collaboration with technical partners
  
• Organize and document stakeholder data-sharing workshops to enhance collaboration and promote evidence-based decision making
  
• Contribute to the development of policy briefs, guidelines and technical recommendations for the adoption and scale-up of WES initiatives that also support gender and youth inclusion
  
• Compile and maintain a repository (compendium) of WES best practices, standard operating procedures and protocols to guide WES implementation
  
• Prepare UNEP-compliant progress and final reports ensuring inclusion of disaggregated indicators and adherence to required reporting standards
  
• Write journal articles/papers to publish results as appropriate
  
• Contribute to the development of innovative concepts and ideas for further research including proposal writing/resource mobilization
  
• Perform any other related duties as may be assigned