Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) is a State Corporation established through the Science and Technology (Amendment) Act of 1979, which has since been amended to Science, Technology and Innovation Act 2013. The 1979 Act established KEMRI as a National body responsible for carrying out health research in Kenya.

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Early Post-Doctoral Researcher - Health Systems/Implementation Scientist - Nairobi

Job Type

Contract

Qualification

PhD/Fellowship

Experience

Nairobi

Job Field

Medical / Healthcare , Research

Key Responsibilities:

• Operationalise implementation science frameworks within a multi-country health systems evaluation, ensuring methodological coherence across adoption, implementation, and maintenance domains.
• Design, specify, and maintain indicator sets and measurement plans for implementation strength, including formal definition, weighting, and validation of facility-level Implementation Strength components across health system domains.
• Lead the quantitative development and refinement of the implementation index
• Design and conduct quantitative process evaluations linking implementation strength and fidelity to coverage, intermediate outcomes, and system performance.
• Oversee the execution, scoring, and analytic integration of Health Facility Readiness Assessments (HFRA), ensuring standardisation across sites and alignment with system-readiness constructs.
• Coordinate and analyse Quality Improvement (QI) event logs, audits, and commodity and stock tracking data, translating operational disruptions and implementation adaptations into analytically tractable variables.
• Contribute to the development of reproducible analytic pipelines (script-based workflows), including data cleaning, indicator construction, model estimation, and documentation.
• Generate high-frequency implementation performance dashboards and quantitative learning products to support adaptive programme management.
• Lead the synthesis of quantitative findings into learning briefs, technical reports, and peer-reviewed manuscripts focused on implementation effectiveness and health system performance.
• Engage with implementation partners and national stakeholders to contextualise quantitative findings, support interpretation of heterogeneity, and inform adoption and maintenance analyses.

Vacancy Requirements:

• PhD (or near completion) in Implementation Science/Health Systems/Global Health. Mandatory
• Experience applying RE AIM or similar frameworks and managing multi-site process evaluations. Mandatory
• Programme measurement, quantitative analysis, QI methods, stakeholder facilitation, excellent writing. Mandatory

• Operationalise implementation science frameworks within a multi-country health systems evaluation, ensuring methodological coherence across adoption, implementation, and maintenance domains.
• Design, specify, and maintain indicator sets and measurement plans for implementation strength, including formal definition, weighting, and validation of facility-level Implementation Strength components across health system domains.
• Lead the quantitative development and refinement of the implementation index
• Design and conduct quantitative process evaluations linking implementation strength and fidelity to coverage, intermediate outcomes, and system performance.
• Oversee the execution, scoring, and analytic integration of Health Facility Readiness Assessments (HFRA), ensuring standardisation across sites and alignment with system-readiness constructs.
• Coordinate and analyse Quality Improvement (QI) event logs, audits, and commodity and stock tracking data, translating operational disruptions and implementation adaptations into analytically tractable variables.
• Contribute to the development of reproducible analytic pipelines (script-based workflows), including data cleaning, indicator construction, model estimation, and documentation.
• Generate high-frequency implementation performance dashboards and quantitative learning products to support adaptive programme management.
• Lead the synthesis of quantitative findings into learning briefs, technical reports, and peer-reviewed manuscripts focused on implementation effectiveness and health system performance.
• Engage with implementation partners and national stakeholders to contextualise quantitative findings, support interpretation of heterogeneity, and inform adoption and maintenance analyses.

• Programme measurement
• quantitative analysis
• QI methods
• stakeholder facilitation
• excellent writing

• PhD (or near completion) in Implementation Science/Health Systems/Global Health.
• Experience applying RE AIM or similar frameworks and managing multi-site process evaluations.