Junior Expert Legionnaire's Disease

Job description
We are now looking for a new team member to ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) in Stockholm. You will work as a Junior Scientific Expert and support the DPR Unit (Disease Programmes Unit) and in particular the Respiratory Viruses and Legionella Section (RVL Section). This particular position will support one disease group, which is Travel-Associated Legionnaire’s Disease (TALD). You will report to the Group Leader of the RVL Section. The position requires IT skills as it is to support the move to a new reporting portal that is used by member states and partners to report on several diseases. This is a temporary assignment starting as soon as possible and four months forward.
Randstad Life Sciences is specialized in competences within Life Science. As a consultant with us, you get a competitive salary, benefits and collective agreements. Your consultant manager is always there for you and ensures that you get varying and developing assignments at different companies, within different industries. At Randstad Life Sciences, your personal development is in focus, and you are offered a large network and many social activities.
To apply, please submit your resume in English in the Europass CV format together with a motivational letter of maximum one page (in the same document) explaining which job specific expertise and personal characteristics that you would bring to the job. Please apply as soon as possible, application closes on the 16th of May.
Tasks include:
Provide support to the Travel-Associated Legionnaire’s Disease (TALD) routine monitoring and to its implementation in the new ECDC EpiPulse platform (EpiPulse - the European surveillance portal for infectious diseases (europa.eu)).
The EpiPulse platform is an online portal to collect disease information and was launched by ECDC in 2021. Please use the link above to find out more about EpiPulse and see a video explaining more.

Specifically:
Provide disease-specific input and support the development of the new data infrastructure for TALD data in collaboration with Legionnaire’s Disease ECDC experts;
Participate to user acceptance testing (UAT) of TALD workflows in EpiPulse, including multi-user system testing;
Contribute to manual cleaning of TALD data due to data migration into the new system;
Coordination of the go-live phase from the business perspective and its administrative content (e.g. monitoring activities, organising meetings, following versioning of documents and collating procedures and relevant business documents, communication with network and stakeholders);
Support users of EpiPulse TALD after the go-live.


Responsibilities
Provide support to the Travel-Associated Legionnaire’s Disease (TALD) routine monitoring and to its implementation in the new ECDC EpiPulse platform (EpiPulse - the European surveillance portal for infectious diseases (europa.eu)).
The EpiPulse platform is an online portal to collect disease information and was launched by ECDC in 2021. Please use the link above to find out more about EpiPulse and see a video explaining more.

Specifically:
Provide disease-specific input and support the development of the new data infrastructure for TALD data in collaboration with Legionnaire’s Disease ECDC experts;
Participate to user acceptance testing (UAT) of TALD workflows in EpiPulse, including multi-user system testing;
Contribute to manual cleaning of TALD data due to data migration into the new system;
Coordination of the go-live phase from the business perspective and its administrative content (e.g. monitoring activities, organising meetings, following versioning of documents and collating procedures and relevant business documents, communication with network and stakeholders);
Support users of EpiPulse TALD after the go-live.


Qualifications
Education at university level in an area related to the activities of ECDC such as medicine, public health or similar, and relevant professional experience of at least 1 year following the award of the degree.
Administrative skills: well-organised person, able to deliver according to a set timeline, able to coordinate and work with others across the organisation, high attention to detail, good capacity to follow processes and procedures and to raise questions accordingly;
Ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment with disease and IT experts;
Ability to work with stakeholders;
Some understanding of infectious diseases surveillance (data collection, data flows, data storage);
Very good English language skills;
Excellent communication skills (spoken and written).


About the company

Randstad
At Randstad, we see the possible in people. With business all over Sweden and in all areas of expertise, we help people find work that feels good, where they get the opportunity to develop and realize their true potential.

With close to 600 000 employees in 38 countries, Randstad is the global leader in the HR services industry. Our mission is to become the world’s most valued working life partner. By combining our passion for people with the power of today’s technology, we support people and organizations in realizing their true potential. We call it Human Forward.