Summary
Date Posted: Friday, May 27, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Research Officer – Statistics / Epidemiology
The Epidemiology Research Officer will play an important and active role in the QuEST project that broadly aims at building the evidence base to support the transformation to high-quality health systems by improving measurement, testing solutions, and creating generalizable knowledge in partnership with changemakers in low- and middle-income countries. One of the major objectives of the QuEST project is to deliver critical research expertise to strengthen the evidence on improving health systems. The goal is to have a health system that is responsive to the people that they aim to serve by developing and validating a new instrument to understand the population's view on health system confidence and outcomes. The People’s Voice Survey (PVS) will be a population-representative phone survey to bring people’s perspectives into health system performance measurement. The project is seeking a research officer to support activities related to the population voice survey and analysis of data from the survey and other routine data collection systems as directed by supervisors

Key responsibilities:
For the Public Health Unit in Nairobi and under the direction of supervisor to:
• Collate, clean and archive data and associated meta-data
• Undertake statistical analysis of the survey data with appropriate support and appropriately document these analyses
• Develop written reports on the analyses conducted and their interpretation
• Develop peer-reviewed manuscript quality reports for submission for publication
• Support consultations with local, regional and national governments and key donors
• To provide support in analysis to less experienced research staff / interns / collaborators
• And any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.
Criteria:
The successful applicant will have:
• Recognised Postgraduate qualification (Masters) relevant to the field of epidemiological research, statistis, global health and/or public health
• At least 3 years relevant work experience in research
• Demonstrated experience in collecting, analysing and interpreting a range of quantitative data
• Experience in the analysis and interpretation of complex and/or large data sets, specifically health survey data
• Proficiency in one or more statistical packages
• Highly developed oral and written communication skills
• Experience in undertaking research in a cross-cultural context
• A record of publishing and presenting research results, relative to opportunity
• Demonstrated interest in public health and Demonstrated knowledge and working experience of Kenyan Health system added advantage
• Demonstrated ability to act with sound judgement, sensitivity, and flexibility, and to exercise initiative in adapting preferred approaches when and where required
• Demonstrated experience in undertaking national/ subnational surveys (preferable)
Competencies:
• Experience in use of STATA and / or ‘R’ for analysis of health data.
• Have high energy, clear goal orientation and strong work ethics
• Strong organisation/programme management 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
• Ability to interact with users/ office use in simple non-technical language

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Job application procedure
Interested and qualified? Go to KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) on jobs.kemri-wellcome.org to apply

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