SENIOR RESEARCH MANAGER, RESEARCH OPERATIONS

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The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME works to achieve our mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Costs and Cost Effectiveness; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations.

IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which are cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members.

IHME has an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Research Manager on the Research Operations team, as part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) Study. The GBD is a systematic, scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geography over time, and is the largest and most comprehensive effort to date to measure epidemiological levels and trends worldwide. The GBD’s aim is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base to make decisions that achieve better health. The primary purpose of the position is to provide leadership, management, and supervision within the research portfolio in order to deliver timely, high-quality, and policy-relevant results on deadline. The position must bring intellectual agility, deft planning skills, and command of the intellectual content to bear in executing their responsibilities to maintain an integrated and effective production cycle that incorporates data integration, complex analyses, engineering, and dissemination. This individual will monitor, evaluate, and facilitate improvements to critical systems and processes used to align complex data and analytics. In an effort to ensure quality, consistency, and efficiency, they will create standard operating procedures for routine processes and develop new trainings and resources for use by IHME and its partners.

The Senior Research Manager will be entrusted with bringing together research and deliverables across multiple components within the portfolio. They will act as an internal knowledge expert on the complex array of interdependencies, diagnostics, and analytic processes behind the production of results using innovative scientific methods. The individual will act as a key decision-making resource. To be successful, they will need to have command of multiple research areas, including the methods and analytic machinery needs of each. They should also bring intellectual agility and deft strategic planning skills in order to properly sequence and meet interdependent deadlines and research deliverables. Overall, the Senior Research Manager will be a leader and a critical member of an agile and dynamic team, planning, guiding, implementing, managing, and monitoring a complex research enterprise.

This position is contingent on project funding availability and need, and is currently funded through at least the end of June 2026.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy and management