CDD Post Doc Nutrition Scientist- Palaiseau H/F

Description de l'offre

CDD Post Doc Nutrition Scientist- Palaiseau H/F 

 

·  Employer: Danone Research
·  Location: Palaiseau, France
·  Term of Position:  6 months

 

Main tasks

·  State of the science evaluation and recommendation on the use and development of an electronic device for the collection of food and drink data. 
·  Assistance with the set up and management of dietary studies, and the analysis of dietary data.

 

Requirements

The ideal applicant should have the following:

PhD in nutrition or related discipline (or Masters Degree in nutrition or related discipline with a minimum of 3 years experience).

 

Essential requirements:

·  Strong skills in quantitative dietary assessment techniques and experience in the collection and interpretation of dietary intake data. Experience collecting and processing food records, 24-hour dietary recalls and/or food frequency questionnaires including data cleaning, data management and data analysis.
·  Experience using dietary software to code dietary data and an understanding of software strengths and limitations.
·  Experience conducting evaluations, ideally related to technology or computer based software.
·  Proven ability to develop and make recommendations at a senior management level, taking into account business and scientific needs.
·  Demonstrated knowledge of the food repertoire and dietary habits in a range of different countries (e.g. France, African countries, US, Germany, Russia).
·  Demonstrated experience of working with food composition databases from different countries, and an understanding of their strengths and limitations.
·  Demonstrated ability to design, co-ordinate and manage research or epidemiological studies in complex and challenging environments (from design through to publication of results).
·  Experience developing fieldwork documents and training fieldworkers on the collection of dietary data.
·  Excellent communication skills, ability to communicate at different levels and in different environments, including meetings and conferences.
·  Demonstrated ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams, with a wide variety of stakeholders.
·  Mature and motivated, ability to work alone and with others, pro-active attitude. Ability to meet deadlines.
·  Good spoken and written English mandatory.

 

Desirable requirements:

·  Experience using statistical software tools or packages e.g. R, Matlab, SAS, SPSS, STATA and experience interpreting output from statistical software.
·  Previous employment experience in food industry.

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