AD/9/192/23 – 1 POST

Job summary

Coordinate Research and Clinical activities for a Mental Health Clinical trial in Nairobi, Homabay and Kisumu, Kenya.

Key responsibilities and Tasks

•  Oversee implementation of the study protocol, participant care and safety, and adherence to regulatory requirements as set by the Kenyan government and collaborating institutions.
•  Participate in study design, data analysis, writing of manuscripts, and presentation of data at conferences.
•  Supervise and coordinate all study activities; Manage study staff.
•  Serve as the primary liaison between the Kenyan implementation sites and US-based research sites.
•  Monitor study progress in the form of weekly investigator calls and summaries.
•  Participate in the development, piloting, and implementation of standard operating procedures, training materials, data collection forms, and data management systems.
•  Ensure the clinical and research staff adhere to all human subjects’ protections, data and specimen collection procedures, data protection precautions, and any other study procedures.
•  Ensure necessary local ethics review board approvals and renewals are obtained for the study and managing study ethics and human subject protection.
•  Seek all county and facility approvals for the study to take place
•  Respond to questions or issues raised by study staff, communicating concerns to the other team members or the PI as needed.
•  Support the study data manager in quality assurance and control of raw data, including but not limited to protecting the confidentiality of participants’ information.
•  Any other duties assigned by the study director.

Job Specifications

•  Either Master’s degree in Psychology or equivalent OR a Bachelor degree with a strongbias in Education and Psychology or equivalent from an accredited Kenyan or US institution.
•  At least 5 years’ experience in coordinating psychosocial services for adolescents and young adults in a clinical set up or the community.
•  At least 3 years of coordinating health-related research activities.
•  Professional training in research management and communication

Skills

•  Demonstrated ability to plan, lead, coordinate, and accomplish both clinical care and research activities.
•  Strong analytic, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
•  Ability to work effectively as a member of a collaborative team
•  Attention to detail and good work ethic.
•  Ability to work with minimal supervision.
•  Respectful, punctual, hardworking, and conscientious.
•  Responsive to communication with international team members.

Terms of appointment

• This a position whose tenure is one (1) year contract renewable based on performance and mutual consent.