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DFID is seeking to recruit leading scientists, academics and researchers in various fields of the natural and social sciences to serve as Senior Research Fellows in the design and execution of research programmes under its new research strategy.

The Senior Research Fellows will provide scientific leadership for DFID’s research priorities and assist with DFID’s engagement with the science, academic and policy research communities in international development and across UK government. Senior Research Fellows will contribute to DFID’s efforts to enhance the relevance of research and maximise its impact on development policy and practice.

These positions will be on a fixed-term or secondment basis for periods between 6 months and 2 years on a range of part and full-time contractual terms. You will be expected to retain your existing institutional affiliation and take up the appointment between Autumn 2008 and Summer 2009.

DFID is seeking expressions of interest with a view to recruiting Senior Research Fellows to work on specific tasks to be agreed in the following fields:

• Growth: economic policy and performance; investment and innovation; firm behaviour; trade policy; financial development; infrastructure and growth; private sector development
• Sustainable agriculture: natural resources management; agricultural productivity, crop breeding technologies including biotechnology; agricultural markets; plant science; bio-fuels for developing countries
• Climate change: climate science; low carbon growth paths and technologies; carbon markets; carbon capture and storage; local level adaptation strategies; ecosystems
• Health and education: service delivery; health systems and financing; poverty and nutrition; drugs and vaccines for chronic and infectious diseases; maternal mortality; health and climate change; educational quality, access and results; education and growth
• Governance in challenging environments: conflict, state fragility and social cohesion; social exclusion and inequality; state-building; migration
• New and emerging technologies: nanotechnology; role of systems biology in development; rapid diagnostic devices; information and communications technology; advanced energy technologies for developing countries

A competitive salary will be offered commensurate with current position and experience.

Further job particulars will be available from the 1st September. To have the job particulars sent directly to you, please register your interest by sending your contact details to DFIDrecruitment8@dfid.gov.uk

For further information about DFID please visit our website www.dfid.gov.uk

DFID is an equal opportunities employer. Applications are welcomed from all parts of the community and we actively encourage interest from women, ethnic minority groups, those with a disability and those from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender communities. Selection is on merit. Candidates should be UK nationals, nationals of a member state of the European Economic Area (EEA), Swiss or Turkish Nationals or Commonwealth citizens with the right to work in the UK. Completed applications should be returned to DFIDrecruitment8@dfid.gov.uk by no later than 26 September 2008.