Research Assistant at Vital Strategies: (Deadline 9 February 2022)
JOB ADVERT
Vital Strategies is a global health organization that aim to design and implement evidence-based strategies that tackle their most pressing public health problems. Vital strategy to has partnered with RBC to strengthen data for health including population-based cancer registry Vital Strategies/Rwanda representative would like to hire a contractual staff to fulfill the following responsibilities:
Job Titles:
Research assistant
Report to
The research assistant will report to Rwanda Cancer Research Principal Investigator
Job overview
This is a position of one year with potential of renewal and will consist on cancer related research in Rwanda including survival studies among cancer patients in Rwanda.
Responsibilities
- Design and manage the implementation of health related research including survival studies and evaluation studies, using qualitative and quantitative research methods
- Design research instruments, for qualitative and quantitative studies, with minimal supervision, including protocols, questionnaires, sampling plans, implementation plans.
- Oversee project implementation, including ethical clearance, liaising with agencies in collaborating countries, troubleshooting and maintaining frequent communication with all necessary staff to ensure implementation of projects of high quality
- Conduct recruitment and interview of patients enrolled in the study
- Work with clinicians on following up cancer patients
- Support and/or produce high quality research reports and writings, including informative data analytics and appealing data visualizations
- Maintain quantitative and qualitative datasets for ongoing projects and papers
- Conduct analysis as necessary and directed, using multivariate statistical approaches
- Produce visually appealing data representations for use in reports or other technical writings and for use in the media
- Prepare reports, presentations, and drafts of academic papers
Qualifications
- Bachelors’ degree in health related field including Nursing, Clinical medicine, Biomedical sciences, Biostatistics, public health or other health related field, having a master’s degree is a plus
- Relevant experience in clinical research including follow up / survival studies
- Demonstrated advanced statistical skills applied to social science data is required, including multivariate regressions, ability to produce high-quality and interpretative data visualizations is desired.
- Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality research writings that may include technical reports, white papers, academic writings
- Experience managing research projects from start to finish
- Knowledge of statistics and quantitative research methods, required; must be expert in using data analysis software like SPSS, STATA, NVivo or Atlas
- Strong communication skills, including demonstrated verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, is necessary; fluency in English and Kinyarwanda.
Experience:
A minimum of 2 years of experience in health related research
Deadline of this Job:
09 February 2022
Duty Station:
Kigali, with the possibility to travel to various locations within Rwanda
Job application procedure
Please send a cover letter, CV with three referees, copy of degree and relevant certificates including salary expectations in one PDF document to [email protected]
Kindly Note
All Jobs and Opportunities Published on mucuruzi.com are completely free to apply. A candidate should never pay any fee during the recruitment Process. Even if mucuruzi.com does its best to avoid any scam job or opportunity offer, a job seeker or an opportunity seeker is 100% responsible of applying at his own risk.
Check well before applying, if you doubt about the eligibility of any offer do not apply and notifie to mucuruzi.com via this email: [email protected] and remember to never pay any fee to have a job or get any opportunity, if you do so, do it at your own risk.
