GARDP is a not-for-profit organization focused on developing and delivering new or improved antibiotic treatments, ensuring sustainable access globally. Aligned with the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance, GARDP collaborates with public and private sectors to encourage research and development of new antibiotic treatments.
Job Purpose: The Programme Lead – Children’s antibiotics at GARDP is a key programme and medical leadership role within the GARDP R&D team and across the GARDP portfolio and organisation. Reporting to the R&D Director, this position provides strategic and tactical medical and clinical scientific expertise across the sepsis/serious bacterial infections portfolio with a focus on development and implementation of antibiotic treatments for children including neonates
Requirements
Key Areas of Responsibilities:
Children’s Antibiotic strategy
· Develop a transversal strategy aligned with the Sepsis/SBI Disease Area strategy focusing on development of antibiotics for priority drug resistant infections in childrens overall and with a specific focus on neonatal sepsis
· Develop clinical and initial access development strategies at the disease area level for implementation in specific clinical and access led projects.
Paediatric antibiotic development
· Design and implement novel paediatric development programmes to support regulatory approval and support evaluation of broader effectiveness and utility
· Provide GARDP position and leadership to external collaborations and stakeholders on the priority area of paediatric antibiotic development.
Neonatal Sepsis
· Provide medical leadership to the GARDP Neonatal sepsis project and external collaboration, supporting the GARDP project leader and working with partners to deliver key R&D and access objectives
· Provide medical leadership to the priority NeoSep collaborative study and design and implement approaches to evaluate options to address multidrug resistant Neonatal sepsis.
Contribution: The Programme Lead – Children’s antibiotics significantly contributes to GARDP’s business plans, translating organizational objectives into specific R&D outputs. They lead internal and external collaborations to ensure cohesion and represent GARDP’s agenda by delivering peer recognised high level expertise.
Qualifications and Attributes: The ideal candidate should be medically qualified with specialism or extensive clinical and research experience in paediatrics, infectious diseases or clinical microbiology. Experience of leading R&D projects and collaborations would be beneficial with strong evidence of working in partnerships across public and private sectors. Desirable qualities include experience in supporting policy, advocacy and communications with strong communication and presentation skills. A minimum of 10-15 years of relevant senior experience are required.
If interested, please send your applications to gdowsett@dowsettpartners.com
