Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining relationships with district, community and school health and education stakeholders;
- Ethical review of study protocols; building and maintaining essential trial documents; liaising with regulatory authorities and trial monitors;
- Facilitating the recruitment and training of staff;
- Determining study logistics and relationships with other on-going studies in the area;
- Managing procurement and sub-contract budgets;
- Supervising study implementation; reviewing electronic data collection tools; working with data managers to revise and review data reports;
- Writing SOPs for data and sample collection, tracking, processing and management;
- Designing systems to track school attendance; determining appropriate cognition/educational testing with PI and implementing testing;
- Reporting on and reviewing study progress with the PI;
- Data cleaning;
- Sample tracking;
- Data analysis;
- Manuscript writing;
- Results dissemination
Required qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Medicine, Nursing, Social science or other health related field
- At least 10 years’ research experience
- Prior experience as project coordinator for clinical trials
- Prior experience in school-based research
Remuneration
Remuneration will be commensurate with experience and qualifications as applicable to staff in the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences. KUHES is an equal opportunity employer.
Application procedure
Suitably qualified candidates should submit their applications together with copies of relevant certificates and detailed CVs with names, contact numbers and emails of three traceable referees to:
The Registrar
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
P/Bag 360
Chichiri
Blantyre 3
