JOB VACANCY

Job Title: Research assistant

Location: Douala

Duration: Part time Closing

Expected start Date: 01st August, 2023

ABOUT CLEAN AIR AFRICA

CLEAN-Air (Africa) is a partnership between public health experts from the UK, Ghana, Kenya and Cameroon, aiming to provide policy-relevant evidence to address the global challenge of lack of access to clean household energy for the 4 billion people of the World’s population.

JOB SUMMARY

In this position, you will play a key role in monitoring clinical and community studies to ensure compliance with procedures and protocols. You will work under the supervision of principal investigator who leads research projects. You are responsible for assisting him in a number of tasks that support the research activities. The research assistant is responsible for meticulous data management for multiple ongoing research studies, including: database development and maintenance, initiating processes for regular database updates and quality control functions, data abstraction, interpretation and organization.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct literature reviews
• Maintain accurate records of interviews, safeguarding the confidentiality of subjects, as necessary
• Supervise undergraduate students working on the research project
• Summarize project results
• Prepare progress reports
• Prepare other articles, reports and presentations
• Write and contribute to publications
• Develop research protocols
• Contribute to the design of protocols, which includes the methodology, analysis, quality control and reporting sections for both quantitative and qualitative data.
• Develop assessment and evaluation tools
• Create presentation slides and posters to help researchers present findings
• Conduct data quality assessment in the study databases, generate listing of errors or incoherence, send data queries to study sites and supervise the data correction process
• Oversee and coordinate the process from data capture to data sharing
• Perform statistical analyses using appropriate statistical tools for planned data presentations and communications related to a given study
• Liaise with study coordinator to follow-up data errors, discrepancies, and missing information for ongoing data cleaning
• Maintain the integrity, security and data backup of the study database

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Education PhD in biostatistics, Epidemiology or in Public Health Masters in biostatistics, Epidemiology or public health Working experience
• Knowledge of research methods.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience as research coordinator in a project
• Experience in monitoring of biomedical and operational research data is mandatory.
• Prior experience in article writing and submitting in peer review journals.
• Languages English and French are the working languages for the project. Fluency in oral and written English is obligatory

Additional skills

• Self-directed and able to work independently and collaboratively with colleagues
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, work under pressure, and manage time efficiently
• Excellent teamwork and coordination skills.
• Good computing skills, Excel, Word, PowerPoint

ASSESSMENT

• Selection of qualified candidates will include an initial review of the CVs of applicants, followed by an interview of pre-selected candidates.

HOW TO APPLY

• CV’s should not be more than 3 pages.
• Submit your updated CV and letter of motivation to cleanaircameroon@gmail.com latest 17th July, 2023.