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The trainee will be allocated within the Substance use, harms and responses unit, and the selected candidate will be reporting to the Head of the Early warning, alert, laboratory network sector.

The successful applicant will be requested to perform the following main tasks and responsibilities:

• Support data management and visualisation of new psychoactive substances.
• Support the preparation of reports on new psychoactive substances.
• Support the monitoring of open-source information.
• Review and summarise information published in the scientific literature.
• Support the management of serious drug-related risks.

Eligibility requirements:

• Be a national of one of the Member States of the European Union, Norway or Türkiye. Candidates from other countries may apply.
• Have fulfilled any obligations imposed by the applicable laws concerning military service.
• Be physically fit to perform the duties of the post.
• Have completed the first cycle of a higher education course (university education) and obtained a full degree or its equivalent by the closing date for applications. 
• Have a thorough knowledge of oral and written English. 

General selection requirements:

• A completed university degree in chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, forensic science, pharmacy, medicine or similar.
• Experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
• Experience in data visualisation.
• Excellent written English and computer/IT skills.

The trainee will be allocated within the Substance use, harms and responses unit, and the selected candidate will be reporting to the Head of the Drugs use, harms and addictive behaviours sector.

The successful applicant will be requested to perform the following main tasks and responsibilities:

• Analyse the disaggregated data on acute drug toxicity presentations to sentinel hospitals – (possible topic of the analysis: sex differences in polydrug associations).
• Analyse the trends in the patterns of polysubstance associations involved in drug-induced deaths (aggregated data in selected countries).
• Analyse the trends in the patterns of polysubstance use among clients seeking substance use treatment (treatment demand indicator).
• Map data collection tools for polysubstance use in all monitoring systems in the DHAB Sector.
• Support the organisation of relevant expert meetings for the unit and sector.

Eligibility requirements:

• Be a national of one of the Member States of the European Union, Norway or Türkiye. Candidates from other countries may apply.
• Have fulfilled any obligations imposed by the applicable laws concerning military service.
• Be physically fit to perform the duties of the post.
• Have completed the first cycle of a higher education course (university education) and obtained a full degree or its equivalent by the closing date for applications. 
• Have a thorough knowledge of oral and written English. 

General selection requirements:

• A completed university degree in public health, epidemiology, pharmacology, or a clinical background, quantitative analysis, and research experience.
• Independent user of R or some other statistical language.
• Experience in working with Power BI.
• Experience in working in the field of public health or epidemiology.

The trainee will be allocated within the Substance use, harms and responses unit, and the selected candidate will be reporting to the Head of the Health and social responses sector.

The successful applicant will be requested to perform the following main tasks and responsibilities:

• Support the sector’s organisational activities, such as the Health and Social Responses meeting.
• Support the project management of PLATO 0.2, EU-COMP and EU-QUALITY.
• Collaborate in the development of the webinars, the Best Practice Portal and the Responses Guide.
• To support the organisational and technical implementation of ongoing projects, including evidence gap maps (EGMs), expert knowledge elicitation (EKE), mapping of treatment services, and the use of AI in systematic reviews..
• Participate in sector meetings, supporting preparation to representing the agency/sector at conferences and meetings, identifying their own project.

Eligibility requirements:

• Be a national of one of the Member States of the European Union, Norway or Türkiye. Candidates from other countries may apply.
• Have fulfilled any obligations imposed by the applicable laws concerning military service.
• Be physically fit to perform the duties of the post.
• Have completed the first cycle of a higher education course (university education) and obtained a full degree or its equivalent by the closing date for applications. 
• Have a thorough knowledge of oral and written English. 

General selection requirements:

• A completed university degree in public health, epidemiology, criminology, biology, sociology, psychology, law, or international relations.
• The candidate must show a genuine interest for learning in practice, resilience, respect and intention to teamwork.

Job Duties:

Participate in the development of the State plan for substance abuse; participates in the coordination and evaluation of all State and federally funded program and activities in the State relating to substance abuse; conducts program and operational studies and activities to assist grant-aided and contracted agencies in developing substance abuse programs; monitors such agencies to insure activities and use of funds conform to project intent and requirements; and performs other duties as required.

Please be advised that the hiring process for this position is part of the Department of Health’s Hiring Innovation for Rapid Employment (HIRE) Pilot Project. The Pilot Project will defer the traditional screening of applications for minimum qualifications until after a selection has been made. Therefore, the referral of an application to the hiring manager and the opportunity to interview for the position do not indicate that the applicant meets the minimum qualifications for the position, nor do they guarantee employment. If selected for the role, a comprehensive review of the application packet will occur to ensure that the minimum qualifications are met. If the selectee is deemed qualified, a conditional offer will be issued.

The ARTS Adult Outpatient Program (AOP) within Addiction Research and Treatment Services (ARTS) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is seeking a full-time University Staff (non-classified) Peer Recovery Specialist. The ARTS Adult Outpatient Program within the School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry has clinic locations in Denver, Aurora, and Arvada. These clinics provide drug and alcohol assessment and psychosocial and pharmacological treatment for adults. Programs in various clinic locations include traditional outpatient, intensive outpatient, and may contain specialty services for clients referred by the criminal justice system, county departments of human services, services for pregnant women, individuals who are HIV-positive, and gender responsive services.

The Peer Recovery Specialist provides peer support and recovery services to people living with HIV who have problems with substance abuse at the ARTS Parkside Clinic and Specialized Outpatient Services (SOS) Clinic; both located in Denver. This position provides activities to engage, educate, and offer support to HIV-positive patients, their family, and caregivers, as well as connect patients to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up sessions.

The Peer Recovery Specialist is also responsible for conducting outreach activities with organizations, patients, staff, community partners, subcontracted agencies, and/or other entities as appropriate. This position will also travel to various sites and perform other duties as assigned or required.

Standard working hours for this position are Monday through Friday, 6:00am to 2:30pm, or 8:30am to 5:00pm. This position may be required to work some Saturdays and/or Sundays (for events/clinic coverage) depending on the needs of the clinic.

This position is a full-time position partially supported by Ryan White Care Act grant funds, whose funding levels will be reviewed on a periodic basis. Accordingly, the position’s status may be affected over time by any applicable variations in the grant and/or funding amounts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Under general supervision, provide services as a Peer educator and support specialist to implement interventions to improve outcomes for HIV-positive patients participating in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and traditional outpatient treatment.
• Conduct structured, individual and group interventions that focus on health education, care coordination, as well as identifying and reducing barriers to care for patients.
• Conduct outreach activities in the community to engage HIV-positive patients in substance use treatment.
• Plan, coordinate, and conduct community outreach events such as Denver Pridefest and the Colorado AIDS Walk.
• Conduct case management for patients, and provide referrals of necessary, appropriate resources to patients as needed.
• Implement standardized intervention, track patients for engagement, and connect patients to HIV treatment and care.
• Collaborate with supervisor and staff and coordinate efforts to ensure successful delivery of services.
• Attend and participate in trainings, team/staff meetings, supervision, and other events as needed.
• Identify any problems, challenges, or obstacles in coordination of services, identify potential solutions, and resolve such problems, challenges, or obstacles in a timely manner, and ensure all duties and responsibilities are performed for effective and appropriate benefit of patients.

Applications are invited for a fixed-term position in the Department of Psychology at Durham University. The successful candidate will join the research project 'Let's drink on it? The overlooked neuromotivational impact of positive affect on alcohol use and addiction' led by Dr Niklas Ihssen and Professor Milica Vasiljevic, which is funded by the Hetzler Foundation. The project aims to gather quantitative data about how momentary emotional states influence the decision to drink alcohol. The project will involve a large-scale experimental study conducted in the Department’s ‘Bar Lab’ in which participants will be presented with a series of game-like tasks and offered the opportunity to consume alcohol. The successful candidate will work on all phases of the study, including study set-up and design, recruitment, data collection, data analysis and writing up the results for publication. The RA will also contribute to a potential pilot study testing a small sample of participants with an adapted version of the paradigm in an MRI scanner.

Responsibilities:

• To prepare study materials/study protocols and assist with experiment programming, and ethics applications.
• To manage recruitment of research participants and the day-to-day running of the study (e.g. lab bookings, contact with participants, data management).
• To test groups or individual research participants in the Department's 'Bar Lab'.
• To support the development and piloting of a fMRI version of the research study.
• To contribute to Open Science practices (e.g. submitting the study design for pre-registration).
• To draft manuscripts for publication based on the research.
• To understand and convey information which needs careful explanation to diverse audiences (members of lab teams: research groups), discussions and meetings which contribute to the production of research reports and publications.
• To write up results of research work, present information on research progress and outcomes to the project supervisors in a clear and accurate manner.
• To undertake and analyse basic research by deciding how best to apply existing methodology according to overall context and objectives.
• To deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines by discussing with the project supervisors and offering creative or innovative solutions. 
• To liaise with research colleagues and make internal and external contacts to develop knowledge and understanding to form relationships for future research collaboration.
• To contribute to the planning of research projects.
• To contribute to fostering a collegial and respectful working environment which is inclusive and welcoming and where everyone is treated fairly with dignity and respect.
• To engage in wider citizenship to support the department and wider discipline.
• To engage in continuing professional development by attending relevant training and development courses.   

This post is fixed term for 28 hours (0.8 FTE) for 12 months. The funding is available from 01/10/25 for this fixed period only.

The post-holder is employed to work on a research project which will be led by Dr Ihssen and Professor Vasiljevic. Whilst this means that the post-holder will not be carrying out independent research in their own right, the expectation is that they will contribute to the advancement of the project, through the development of their own research ideas/adaptation and development of research protocols.

Successful applicants will, ideally, be in post by 1st October 2025. 

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine invites applications for an open-rank faculty position in the Department of Neurobiology. We are seeking candidates with experience in the area of substance use disorders and addictions, motivated behavior, or the consequences of drug experience on brain function. The Department of Neurobiology (link) is an established and well-funded department with over a quarter century of fundamental neuroscience discoveries. Faculty are housed in custom-designed laboratories and offices in the Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building and nearby Civitan International Research Center. The department has strengths in the molecular mechanisms of neuronal function, synaptic communication and plasticity, and animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders, with technical approaches spanning molecular, genetic, cellular, systems, and behavioral levels of analysis. The Department of Neurobiology provides competitive start-up packages, modern laboratory space, excellent core facilities, a collaborative research environment, and world-class training programs. UAB is strongly committed to neuroscience research, and the department is expanding rapidly under new leadership.

Driven by an intensely collaborative and entrepreneurial character, UAB is one of the leading economic engines in Alabama, with a nearly $4 billion budget and a statewide economic impact exceeding $12.1 billion annually. UAB is Alabama’s largest employer with nearly 28,000 employees, and ranks in the top 10 among public universities for NIH funding, with total research expenditures exceeding $715 million in 2022. With nearly 1,700 faculty, 1,200 medical and graduate students, and 12,000 undergraduate students, UAB pursues the frontiers of education, research, and health care and strives to be one of the most dynamic and productive universities of the 21st century. Birmingham is a cosmopolitan city at the heart of a metropolitan area with a population of 1.1 million people. It is a rich cultural center and progressive community with low cost of living, moderate weather, and ample outdoor activities.

Successful applicants will join one of the strongest neuroscience environments in the country. The UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center (CNC) has more than 450 neuroscience research faculty, clinicians, staff, students & trainees representing 32 UAB departments across 9 UAB schools. The CNC serves as a focal point for basic and applied neuroscience research at UAB. In addition, UAB is home to several other neuroscience-related centers, including the Center for Addiction and Pain Prevention and Intervention (CAPPI), Civitan International Research Center (CIRC), Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics (CNET), an NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, and Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute. UAB is one of 42 institutions with an NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award, which supports translational research and promotes junior investigators.

Candidates must have a Ph.D. and/or M.D in a related field and a strong record of research accomplishments. Faculty members are expected to establish or continue active independent research programs and to participate in education of professional, graduate, and undergraduate students. To ensure priority consideration, applications should be submitted by September 15, 2025, but applications will be considered until positions are filled. Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, list of references, and brief summary of current and proposed research activities as a single PDF file.