Project Assistant, Brain and Mind Institute at Aga Khan University Hospital

Job Summary

• As part of the Broad Institute funded Genetics of PTSD in African Ancestry Populations project, this position will support the Project Manager and Principal Investigators to carry out the project aims. A culmination of assigned tasks will ensure that the project adheres to ethical guidelines and regulations; required number of research participants are recruited, consented, and followed up; data collected is clean, kept private and confidential.
• This will be a one-year renewable contract for a maximum of five years.

Responsibilities

• Assist in preparation of tools including doing pilot and pre-tests. This will involve calibrating tools including adapting, translating and streamlining data collection tools within the preferred electronic platform;
• Assist in mobilisation of study sites and key people in authority within the preferred research sites, including managing relations with the hospital in-charge;
• Participate in recruitment and consenting of study participants, administration and scoring of study questionnaires;
• Timely, preferably daily, submission of all data collected;
• Cleaning, reviewing, and entering data into study database;
• Assist in summarising, analysing and reporting of study outputs; and
• Storage of data in private and confidential manner- and in compliance of Kenya data protection laws.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s level training in a related field (i.e., biomedical sciences; neuropsychology, psychometrics, social sciences, anthropology, public health);
• 3-5 years’ experience in research;
• At least one-year experience in field data collection preferably in hospital settings;
• Educational or experiential knowledge of psychological tests administration;
• Experience in using SPSS and any other statistical software;
• Academic exposure and interest in PTSD and Genetics; and
• Knowledge of data collection as per Data protection guidelines.