Vacancy title:
RESEARCH ASSISTANT

[Type: TEMPORARY, Industry: Education, and Training, Category: Healthcare, Science & Engineering, Social Services & Nonprofit]

Jobs at:
University of Nairobi

Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, December 31 2025

Duty Station:
Central and Eastern Kenya, including Nairobi | Nairobi

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, December 23 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

The Project:

The Centre for Healthcare Quality and Innovation (CHQI), based at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, seeks to recruit twenty (20) Research Assistants on a temporary three-month contract to be based in Central and Eastern Kenya, including Nairobi, and reporting to the Principal Investigator.

Job Purpose:

Recruitment of study participants and study implementation

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operationalize study Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on site activation, participant recruitment, and data management;
• Ensure compliance to study protocol and institutional guidelines;
• Implement study activities including community engagement, information giving on study purpose and conduct, obtain informed consent and sample collection;
• Maintaining accurate records of study procedures;
• Provide study team with regular feedback on study activities;
• Participate in regular team calls and meetings;
• Other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned.

Job Specification:

Applicants must meet at least one of the following qualification pathways to be eligible. These include:

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery ( MBChB) with evidence of research experience; or, a Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences with at least three (3) years’ relevant research or clinical experience; or
• Diploma in a health profession with three (3) years’ experience in infectious diseases (HIV, TB) or NCD prevention and care.; or
• Masters degree in a social sciences in any of the following disciplines; Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Health Economics, or Gender Studies, with demonstrated qualitative research experience.

Terms of Employment:

These are early career temporary, full time positions for an initial period of 3 months with possibility of extension subject to IMMEDIATE availability & satisfactory performance.

Notes:

• Applicants should email their application letters, certified copies of certificates and resume of maximum two pages, giving details of their qualifications, experience and three (3) referees indicating their telephone and e-mail contacts;
• Applications and related documents should be forwarded addressed to the Director, Human Resource, University of Nairobi;
• Applicants should state their current designations, salaries and other benefits attached to those designations;
• The application letter must bear the reference code indicated in the advertisement;
• Late applications will not be considered;
• Applications should be emailed as one file in PDF: recruit-rachcqai@uonbi.ac.ke

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: postgraduate degree

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1. Applicants shouldsend their application letters, certified copies of certificates and curriculum vitae (CV) giving details of their qualifications, experience and three (3) referees indicating their telephone contacts and contacts;

2. Applications and related documents should be forwarded addressed to the Director, Human Resource, University of Nairobi;

3. Applicants should state their current designations, salaries and other benefits attached to those designations;

4. The application letter must bear the reference code indicated in the advertisement;

5. Late applications will not be considered;

6. Applications should be sent as one file in PDF 

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