Research Assistant (Maternal & Newborn Health

Key responsibilities will include: 

Contribute to developing study protocols

• Contribute to the drafting of study protocols.
• Assist in the development of data collection tools.
• Support the piloting and updating of data collection tools.
• Support training of data collectors and support data collection.
• Contribute to the management of study data

Prepare ethics applications

• Complete standard ethics submission paperwork for LSTM and in-country ethics.
• Coordinate the completion of mandatory training required for ethics application by research team members.
• Track ethics submission and respond in a timely manner to queries from the REC.
• Complete annual REC reports/reporting requirements,
• Systematically file all study documentation-consent forms, ethics documents etc.

Analyse qualitative and quantitative data

• Analyse qualitative data using appropriate software.
• Analyse quantitative data using SPSS, R or STATA.
• Analyse secondary data.

Draft, submit and disseminate research outputs

• Draft research outputs such as conference abstracts, posters, presentations, publications and blogs.
• Coordinating inputs into publications.
• Submit research outputs.
• Actively contribute to submissions for grant funding.
• Actively contribute to partner capacity development.
• Identify opportunities for research output dissemination, nationally, regionally and internationally.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Master’s degree in related field (global health, public health, midwifery, medicine)
• Postgraduate professional qualification, such as the Diploma of Tropical Medicine, or certificate in maternal and child health
• Knowledge and interest in MNH in LMICs
• Understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Experience in reporting and open access publications for donors such as Gates foundation and Global Fund
• Experience in biomedical/ social science research in LMICs
• Fluent in English language and Swahili