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23-261_SS_EF Specialist Technician - Tobacco Control

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Desde: 07/11/2023 0:00 (UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris

Hasta: 26/11/2023 23:59 (UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris

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Specialist Technician - Tobacco Control

Ref.: 23-261_SS_EF

 

About the research group

Tobacco Control Research Group

The main objectives of the Tobacco Control research group (Unitat de Control del Tabac in Catalan, UCT) are to foster the current knowledge and evidence on determinants and approaches to prevent and control tobacco use, as well as tobacco smoke and e-cigarette aerosol exposure in the population. To achieve these objectives, the UCT develops interventions and epidemiological and implementation research, which includes projects such as: the impact of passive tobacco exposure in the population, the use of markers to measure tobacco smoke and electronic cigarettes aerosol in the environment or biomarkers, or the implementation of new interventions such as smoke-free homes. On the other hand, the UCT is also responsible for applied intervention projects such as the Catalan Network of Smoke-free Hospitals and health promotion services such as the smoking cessation clinic, which offers support to quit smoking to both employees and patients from ICO-IDIBELL.
The UCT currently maintains stable collaborations with national and international institutions and agencies, mainly with the Catalan Public Health Agency, and including the World Health Organization (WHO), which designated the UCT-ICO as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Tobacco Control.
The UCT’s research through the Consolidated Research Group on Epidemiology, Prevention and Tobacco Control (2021SGR00906) at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute. In addition, the UCT constitutes the core of the CB19/06/00004 Group of the CIBER of Respiratory Diseases, which is funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
Prof. Esteve Fernández is the leader of the Tobacco Control research group. You can read more about the research group here:
https://www.icoprevencio.cat/uct/en/

 

About the role

The selected candidate will develop tasks as a research assistant and project manager of the “Smoke-free homes” Project, funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, and coordinated by the UCT. This project aims to evaluate effectiveness and implementation outcomes of an evidence-based intervention promoting smoke-free homes in Barcelona and its Metropolitan Area. The principal investigator of this project is Prof. Esteve Fernández. You can read more about the project here: https://www.icoprevencio.cat/uct/en/portfolio/sfh/

Specifically, the main tasks to develop will be:

  • Support the PI in the coordination of the project.
  • Perform fieldwork tasks of the project (e.g., management of the project participants, phone questionnaire interviewing, coordination of the interventions stakeholders, delivering intervention components, etc.).
  • Support PI in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders (national and international institutions, funding body, etc.).
  • Prepare and attend the coordination meetings at different levels both online and in person.
  • Participate in dissemination activities of the project (conferences, webinars, presentations).
  • Participate in the writing of scientific and advocacy papers.
  • As any member of the Unit, participate in the Unit activities such as monthly meetings, journal club, training, etc.

 

Job requirements

Professional experience

  • Participation in health promotion and health care service research
  • Experience in cancer or other NCD prevention and control qualitative or quantitative research


Education and training

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Health Sciences or Social Sciences (public health, psychology, nursing, pharmacy, medicine, biomedical sciences, sociology, or others)


Technical & soft skills

  • Good communication skills
  • Good knowledge of MS Office tools (Word, Excel, Outlook)
  • Proactivity, discipline, and multi-tasking
  • Ability to work individually and with a team, initiative, and responsibility


Languages

  • Good command of the English, Spanish and Catalan languages

 

We will value, but not required

  • Master’s degree in public health, health promotion, clinical psychology, or allied sciences
  • Knowledge of Implementation Science frameworks and models
  • Motivation to work proactively, grow within our Unit and learn continuously
  • Previous experience in project management, fieldwork coordination
  • Previous experience in conducting interviews, focus groups, etc.

 

What do we offer

  • No. of positions: 1

  • Estimated start date: 15/12/2023

  • Contract duration: 1 year

  • Estimated annual gross salary: 26.000 €

  • You will be part of a multicultural team. We have a fun loving and friendly international work environment.

  • Flexible working schedule - We know you have a life outside of work and we will work with you to make sure it's kept that way.

  • Possibility to work some days in remote -Teleworking

  • 26 working days of holiday per year

  • System of accumulated hours for employees, from 88 to 104 hours depending on the year (11 to 13 working days), to attend to personal matters.

  • Paid leave package

  • Benefits of constant training are offered

  • We offer and promote diverse and inclusive conditions. Applicants are made free from any discrimination. Specifically IDIBELL works to improve gender equality in all areas with the aim of achieving gender balance, but maintaining the most scrupulous respect to any choice at the level of gender identity. Please express yourself freely, safely and non-binarily, if that's the case.

 

Deadline: Please submit your application by 26/11/2023

 

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Our institute

IDIBELL is a research center that integrates the biomedical research of the Bellvitge University Hospital (HUB), the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), and the University of Barcelona in the Bellvitge Campus (UB), and the Viladecans Hospital (HV). The research focuses of IDIBELL are cancer, neuroscience, translational medicine and regenerative medicine. Research, innovation and society are the pivots on which researchers work every day in order to improve the quality of life of citizens.

 

Observations

The 'HR Excellence in Research' award represents IDIBELL’s commitment to the implementation of Human Resources policies, which oversee the attracting and development of talent in an open, transparent, and based on personal merit, in alignment with the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment Researchers (Charter and Code).

IDIBELL is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the implementation of open, transparent and merit-based recruitment (OTMR).

Contract funded by the Carlos III Health Institute through the project PI21/00818. Co-funded by the European Union. With the institutional support of the CERCA Programme / Generalitat de Catalunya.

   
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