The Project:

The Centre for Healthcare Quality and (CHQI) based at the Faculty of Health Sciences is seeking to hire temporary Research Associates for a three-month period for various studies based in Nairobi, Central and Eastern Kenya.

Job Purpose:

To recruit study participants and collect qualitative and quantitative data.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operationalize study SOPs on site activation, data extraction, participant recruitment, and data collection
• Ensure compliance to study protocol and institutional guidelines
• Implement study activities including community engagement, information giving on obtaining informed consent and sample collection
• Maintaining accurate records of research procedures, results, and observations
• 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:

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) with clinical research experience; or Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Health Sciences with clinical research experience; or
• Master’s degree in medical humanities in any of the following fields sociology, anthropology, health economics); or
• Diploma in Health Professions with at least three (3) years’ experience in infectious diseases (HIV, TB) or NCD prevention and care.

Terms of Employment:

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

Notes:

• Applicants should email their application letters, certified copies of certificates and curriculum vitae (CV max 4 pages) giving details of their qualifications, experience and three (3) referees indicating their telephone contacts 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 and CHQI Studies in the Subject Head of your email;
• Late applications will not be considered;
• Applications should be emailed as one file in PDF to: recruit-raqrchqi@uonbi.ac.ke

THE UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

ONLY SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED

• Operationalize study SOPs on site activation, data extraction, participant recruitment, and data collection
• Ensure compliance to study protocol and institutional guidelines
• Implement study activities including community engagement, information giving on obtaining informed consent and sample collection
• Maintaining accurate records of research procedures, results, and observations
• Provide study team with regular feedback on study activities
• Participate in regular team calls and meetings
• Other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) with clinical research experience; or Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Health Sciences with clinical research experience; or
• Master’s degree in medical humanities in any of the following fields sociology, anthropology, health economics); or
• Diploma in Health Professions with at least three (3) years’ experience in infectious diseases (HIV, TB) or NCD prevention and care.