Epidemiologist (Prevalence and Burden of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse)

Grade UE08: £49,559 to £60,907 per annum, pro-rata if part time 

CAHSS / MHSES / Childlight

Full-time: 35 hours per week 

Fixed-term: to 30 April 2027

Childlight, a global child safety institute, is looking for an Epidemiologist in the Prevalence and Burden of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse to advance Childlight’s public health surveillance system around CSEA.

The Opportunity: 

You will have expertise of understanding and analysing data within a public health context, using it to develop strategies to improve health outcomes. You will have experience of using different forms of data to identify patterns, causes, distributions and control of health challenges within populations. Specifically, you will bring expertise in quantitative prevalence estimation and burden of violence calculations (including economic costing). 

The post holder will work with the Childlight Global Director of Data to envisage and implement a world-leading public health surveillance system model on child sexual exploitation and abuse. This includes strategic thinking around enhancing the surveillance system, and data skills to analyse prevalence and other estimates to enhance the Childlight Into the Light global index. 

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), and fixed term until 30 April 2027. 

Your skills and attributes for success:  

A growing academic profile, with a PhD in public health (or related field) with relevant work experience in public health epidemiology around CSEA or a similar topic.  Experience of managing researchers in epidemiological data efforts.  Experience of work in public health surveillance models.  Methodological expertise in prevalence estimate, burden calculations and economic costing of public health conditions.  Experience of knowledge exchange through effective public engagement.  Growing portfolio of high-quality research publications in child protection or public health research.  A passion for making the world a better place and preventing CSEA, improving services and safeguarding children.