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Opportunities from around the web:
Social worker, Lesbian and Gay Community and Health Centre (LGBTI Centre) — KwaZulu-Natal
The LGBTI Centre, a drop-in safe space and HIV key populations' clinic seeks to appoint two social workers to be based in KwaZulu-Natal on a one-year, fixed term contract. One position is based in Ethekwini and the other in King Cetshwayo.
One of the two social workers will be placed in the men who have sex with men programme and will primarily be responsible for conducting individual assessments and providing therapeutic interventions.
The successful candidates will have a degree in social work, a minimum of two years' experience and will be registered with the South African Council for Social Service Professions.
Deadline: 12 July
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Call for proposals, National Department of Health (NDoH): MomConnect translation into all official South African languages
MomConnect is an NDoH initiative supporting maternal and child health through mobile technologies.
The cellphone-based service is currently only relevant for mothers until their child turns two. This year, the NDoH seeks to expand its services via WhatsApp to include children over the age of two.
The department now seeks proposals from translators able to translate messages from English into the 10 other official languages. Back-translation will be required as well.
The successful contractor will be registered as a company in South Africa.
Deadline: 16 July
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Call for service provider, National Department of Health (NDoH): The Healthworker's Guide to the Road to Health book
NDoH and Ilifa Labantwana seek to appoint a service provider to test The Healthworker's Guide to the Road to Health toolkit book.
The book is a caregiver-held record of child health and development issued by NDoH to clinic-based nurses and midwives who deal with births in South Africa.
The department intends for healthworkers to track the child's health and development, encourage engagement and collaboration between caregivers and healthworkers and to be a source of information for caregivers around their children's development.
The successful service provider will have expertise in conducting qualitative research and knowledge and experience of the South African public health system.
Deadline: 19 July
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Call for applications, Health and Welfare Sector Education and Training Authority (HWSETA): Postgraduate research bursary
Applications are now open for the HWSETA postgraduate research bursary programme.
Registered employed and unemployed South African students are invited to apply. Bursaries are for both part-time and full-time courses.
HWSETA will consider students pursuing a postgraduate diploma; honours; B-Tech; M-Tech; masters; D-Tech; doctoral and post-doctoral studies at universities and other accredited higher education and training institutions.
Deadline: 31 July
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Associate director, FHI360 — Eswatini
FHI360 seeks to appoint an associate director of HIV prevention and mitigation. The position is contingent upon receipt of donor funding.
It entails providing technical leadership for the project and support to the technical director in the management of project interventions for HIV prevention and mitigation. This includes HIV case finding; condom programmes; voluntary medical male circumcision and other emerging biomedical advances.
The successful candidate will have an MB.BS / MD / PhD or similar degree with a minimum of seven years' relevant experience and at least five years' progressive experience working in the health or development field in Eswatini.
Deadline: 15 July
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PhD opportunities in biomedical/biological science, University of Otago — New Zealand
The Department of Anatomy at the University of Otago in New Zealand has an array of PhD scholarships available in the field of biomedical and biological science.
The scholarships provide an emolument of NZ$27 000 per year for up to 36 months as well as a tuition fee waiver. The department also offers support for students travelling to international conferences.
Areas of study range from neuronal plasticity in the hypothalamus to arginine metabolism and neurogenerative disorders.
Deadlines: 21 July
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Call for applications, Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists
Applications are now open for the Science/AAAS and SciLifeLab Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists.
The prize is awarded annually to one young scientist for outstanding life science research for which they were awarded a doctoral degree in the previous two years (2017 or 2018).
The entrant's thesis research must be on cell and molecular biology; genomics, proteomics and systems biology; ecology and environment or molecular medicine.
The grand prize includes US$30 000 and the winning essay will be published in the journal Science.
Deadline: 15 July
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Call for female experts in any field, Quote This Woman+ — Various locations
Quote This Woman+ is a project of the non-profit Media Monitoring Africa to establish an online database of women and non-binary experts to improve gender representation in sourcing among the media.
Keen to be quoted? Submit your details to kathy@augury.co.za.
Deadline: N/A
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