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Senior Research Scientist
2026-07-18T12:03:47+00:00
Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
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CONTRACTOR
Turkana County
Turkana
00100
Kenya
Healthcare
Science & Engineering, Healthcare, Management, Business Operations
KES
MONTH
2026-07-29T17:00:00+00:00
8

Responsibilities or duties

  • Lead the overall planning, coordination, and implementation of the SHIELD Study, developing work plans, timelines, milestones, and resource allocation strategies to ensure delivery of project objectives.
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary research teams comprising climate scientists, epidemiologists, entomologists, public health scientists, and field teams, ensuring effective communication, integration of study components, and high-quality project execution.
  • Oversee qualitative research activities, including protocol and tool development, field team training, data collection, management, coding, thematic analysis, and integration of qualitative findings with epidemiological, entomological, and climate data to generate actionable evidence.
  • Lead stakeholder and community engagement by coordinating collaboration with refugee and host communities, county health officials, community leaders, humanitarian partners, and other stakeholders, while incorporating feedback to strengthen project relevance and impact.
  • Monitor project performance and ensure compliance with study milestones, ethical approvals, regulatory requirements, institutional policies, and funder guidelines, while maintaining comprehensive project documentation.
  • Manage project operations, resources, and risks, including financial, human, logistical, scientific, operational, security, and climate-related risks, ensuring efficient use of resources and timely implementation.
  • Lead capacity strengthening and knowledge dissemination through technical meetings, stakeholder consultations, dissemination workshops, policy dialogues, and training of research and field teams in qualitative methods, climate-health integration, and community-engaged research.
  • Perform any other related duties assigned by the Principal Investigator or supervising authority in support of the project's objectives.

Qualifications or requirements

  • Master’s Degree in Public Health, Environmental Science or a health-related field.
  • Moderate to advanced level analytical skills and use of at least one qualitative analysis package, e.g. N-Vivo, MAXQDA, QDA Miner
  • Excellent communication skills including oral presentations of scientific information
  • Strong supervisory and management skill
  • Communication skills
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Team player

Experience needed

  • At least seven (7) years of research coordination experience in project management, including a minimum of one (1) year of active experience in climate-related research
  • Experience working in collaboration with multiple agencies/partners or Donors and Ministry of Health and Environment
  • Lead the overall planning, coordination, and implementation of the SHIELD Study, developing work plans, timelines, milestones, and resource allocation strategies to ensure delivery of project objectives.
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary research teams comprising climate scientists, epidemiologists, entomologists, public health scientists, and field teams, ensuring effective communication, integration of study components, and high-quality project execution.
  • Oversee qualitative research activities, including protocol and tool development, field team training, data collection, management, coding, thematic analysis, and integration of qualitative findings with epidemiological, entomological, and climate data to generate actionable evidence.
  • Lead stakeholder and community engagement by coordinating collaboration with refugee and host communities, county health officials, community leaders, humanitarian partners, and other stakeholders, while incorporating feedback to strengthen project relevance and impact.
  • Monitor project performance and ensure compliance with study milestones, ethical approvals, regulatory requirements, institutional policies, and funder guidelines, while maintaining comprehensive project documentation.
  • Manage project operations, resources, and risks, including financial, human, logistical, scientific, operational, security, and climate-related risks, ensuring efficient use of resources and timely implementation.
  • Lead capacity strengthening and knowledge dissemination through technical meetings, stakeholder consultations, dissemination workshops, policy dialogues, and training of research and field teams in qualitative methods, climate-health integration, and community-engaged research.
  • Perform any other related duties assigned by the Principal Investigator or supervising authority in support of the project's objectives.
  • Analytical skills
  • Qualitative analysis package usage (e.g., N-Vivo, MAXQDA, QDA Miner)
  • Communication skills
  • Supervisory skills
  • Management skills
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Team player
  • Master’s Degree in Public Health, Environmental Science or a health-related field.
  • At least seven (7) years of research coordination experience in project management.
  • A minimum of one (1) year of active experience in climate-related research.
  • Moderate to advanced level analytical skills.
  • Proficiency in at least one qualitative analysis package (e.g., N-Vivo, MAXQDA, QDA Miner).
  • Experience working in collaboration with multiple agencies/partners or Donors and Ministry of Health and Environment.
  • Excellent communication skills including oral presentations of scientific information.
  • Strong supervisory and management skills.
  • Interpersonal skills.
  • Team player.
postgraduate degree
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Vacancy title:
Senior Research Scientist

[Type: CONTRACTOR, Industry: Healthcare, Category: Science & Engineering, Healthcare, Management, Business Operations]

Jobs at:
Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)

Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, July 29 2026

Duty Station:
Turkana County | Turkana

Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, July 18 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Responsibilities or duties

  • Lead the overall planning, coordination, and implementation of the SHIELD Study, developing work plans, timelines, milestones, and resource allocation strategies to ensure delivery of project objectives.
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary research teams comprising climate scientists, epidemiologists, entomologists, public health scientists, and field teams, ensuring effective communication, integration of study components, and high-quality project execution.
  • Oversee qualitative research activities, including protocol and tool development, field team training, data collection, management, coding, thematic analysis, and integration of qualitative findings with epidemiological, entomological, and climate data to generate actionable evidence.
  • Lead stakeholder and community engagement by coordinating collaboration with refugee and host communities, county health officials, community leaders, humanitarian partners, and other stakeholders, while incorporating feedback to strengthen project relevance and impact.
  • Monitor project performance and ensure compliance with study milestones, ethical approvals, regulatory requirements, institutional policies, and funder guidelines, while maintaining comprehensive project documentation.
  • Manage project operations, resources, and risks, including financial, human, logistical, scientific, operational, security, and climate-related risks, ensuring efficient use of resources and timely implementation.
  • Lead capacity strengthening and knowledge dissemination through technical meetings, stakeholder consultations, dissemination workshops, policy dialogues, and training of research and field teams in qualitative methods, climate-health integration, and community-engaged research.
  • Perform any other related duties assigned by the Principal Investigator or supervising authority in support of the project's objectives.

Qualifications or requirements

  • Master’s Degree in Public Health, Environmental Science or a health-related field.
  • Moderate to advanced level analytical skills and use of at least one qualitative analysis package, e.g. N-Vivo, MAXQDA, QDA Miner
  • Excellent communication skills including oral presentations of scientific information
  • Strong supervisory and management skill
  • Communication skills
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Team player

Experience needed

  • At least seven (7) years of research coordination experience in project management, including a minimum of one (1) year of active experience in climate-related research
  • Experience working in collaboration with multiple agencies/partners or Donors and Ministry of Health and Environment

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: postgraduate degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Scientific jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Wednesday, July 29 2026
Duty Station: Turkana County | Turkana
Posted: 18-07-2026
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 18-07-2026
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 10-10-2076
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