REPORTS TO:

• Principal Investigator.


• Early Post Doctoral Researcher

INDIRECT REPORTS:

• Research Assistants

BUDGET AND RESOURCE RESPONSIBILITY:

• Some responsibility for ICT hardware maintenance to support data collection and planning for updates / additions.

Responsibilities

The post-holder will work with the principal investigator and partners in this project and the wider data management team based at KWTRP to plan, develop, and curate data that meets the requirements of the study. Specifically, they will have leading roles in the following areas:

• Assembly of various datasets as per study requirements


• Developing and maintaining systems to track data quality and completeness.


• Liaise with collaborating partners (County MoH) to ensure quality data


• Liaise with head of surveillance to curate other surveillance databases


• Liaise with data curation team


• Resolving data queries with team and maintaining audit trail of errors


• Produce progress summary reports as required 


• Developing code in STATA/R to provide reports.


• Developing comprehensive data dictionary and a complete description of all study datasets


• Working to ensure data are appropriately managed and archived and that all analytic codes are documented and archived with version control


• Data curation and archiving in Harvard Dataverse

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics / Computer Science (either Statistician with good programming skills or Computer Scientist with sufficient training in Statistics)


• At least 1 year of work experience.


• Ability to code in STATA and R and clearly documented code


• Data management skills – ideally experience with large databases including development of data dictionaries and data cleaning logs


• Good level of ICT skill – understanding of basics of MySQL.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Experience with report writing for data quality.


• Familiarity with MySQL and PHP.


• Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training and certification.

COMPETENCIES:

• Troubleshooting capacity and clarity of thought


• Strong organisation skills with the ability to prioritise workloads and work within tight deadlines


• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment and to multi-task


• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (verbal and written)


• Team worker, able to work in a multi-cultural environment and with multi-disciplinary teams.

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT/CONDITIONS:

• Based at the Kilifi office of the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya with planned  travels to Nairobi.

How to Apply

Apply for the job here