Research Associate, Brain and Mind Institute at Aga Khan University Hospital

Job Summary

The Brain and Mind Institute (BMI) seeks to recruit an experienced and competent Research Associate to support in supervision, data collection, data curation, cleaning, analysis, and report generation for BMI’s research activities. Research Associate will be assigned to work in the upcoming Brain-Resiliency Project in Kenya. The role and responsibilities of the Research Associate may include but not be limited to supervising research assistants conducting participant recruitment, consenting participants for research in line with global standards for responsible conduct of research and human subject protection guidelines, administering structured interviews, neuropsychological tests, and questionnaires to research participants, contributing to data management by cleaning, entering, and organizing data for statistical analyses, actively participating in scientific and management committee meetings, journal clubs, and other scheduled didactics that support the project, preparing summary reports of research progress for Project Manager (PM) and Principal Investigators (PI), and completing independent research projects under the mentorship of PIs (optional but encouraged). The Research Associate is obligated to work within the required deadlines and available to BMI as requested by the PIs.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise the Research Assistant(s) working in this project;
• Ensure all study tools and equipment are procured or arranged in time;
• Support in data management and storage of data while maintaining confidentiality;
• Support in conducting data transcriptions and analysis of project;
• Assist with recruiting study participants;
• Conduct phone interviews to screen for enrollment;
• Consent new participants and administer structured questionnaires and scales.
• Enter data into data management software in a timely fashion;
• Identify and troubleshoot sources of data error and report to PMs and PI, along with possible solutions;
• Supervise the comfort level and safety of participants during all research procedures;
• Report generation and manuscript development.

 Qualifications and skills Requirements

• Completed or in final year of completing Master’s degree in any of the following areas: Psychology, Psychometrics, Biomedical Sciences, Data Science, Social work, or related discipline;
• Experience managing human subjects research projects;
• Experience supervising research assistants;
• Experience working with community stakeholders and NGO’s is an asset;
• Experience with quantitative data collection and analysis strategies;
• Experience with administration of psychological measurement instruments;
• Experience with interviewing human participants and managing psychological distress;
• Experience with Microsoft office suite, statistical software programs, and data management platforms.