Manager (Research), Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health

6 days ago


Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan Aga Khan University Full time $104,000 - $130,878 per year

Manager (Research), Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health

Entity: Aga Khan University

Location: Karachi

Introduction to the Aga Khan University:

The Aga Khan University is a private, international university committed to international standards of excellence in teaching, research and service. Its teaching hospital, the Aga Khan University Hospital has been accredited by the prestigious Joint Commission International for achieving the highest international healthcare standards.

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

This is a grant-funded contractual position. 

Job Role / Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for overall coordination of the research project which involves preparation and update of project documents, communication with collaborators and investigators, implementation of project in the field sites and compilation of various reports. Specific responsibilities include to:

  • Responsible for developing new programs and proofing the program to develop needed changes to assure production of a quality program;
  • writes, edits, and debugs new computer programs for assigned projects, including necessary records and desired output;
  • writes programs to select, retrieve, manipulate, edit, and analyse data;
  • review all project protocols and data collection tools to ensure that collected data meet project's needs, statistical and scientific requirements;
  • provides support for data presentation for publication of research studies results;
  • keep close liaison with project supervisors, principal investigators and departmental head;
  • ensures the integrity of research projects data and provide supervision for data quality assurance;
  • assist data management staff in the design of study databases. As needed, review study database structures and data management project conventions;
  • provide Support in statistical workshops/seminars;
  • complete understanding of software application development lifecycle.
     

Requirements:

You should have:

  • BS / MS computer sciences/MSc. Statistics/ MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics or in any relevant field;
  • 5-8 years of related work experience preferably in the field of Research /MIS;
  • having experience in application development will be an added advantage;
  • sound knowledge of Databases and programming collect requirements and estimating the efforts involved
    reviewing current systems;
  • working closely with Analyst, Designer and Software Developer;
  • producing detailed specifications and writing code;
  • testing the product in controlled, real situations before going live;
  • preparation of training manuals for users;
  • maintaining the systems once they are up and running;
  • proficient in Spread sheets and power point presentation;
  • strong verbal and written communication skills;
  • strong management / supervision skills;
  • Willing to travel on regular basis on national and international visits.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.



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