Data Clerk - Kisumu at Kenya Medical Research - KEMRI

Key Responsibilities:

• Accurately enter participant information and study data into electronic data capture systems in accordance with study protocols, SOPs, and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) requirements.
• Review Case Report Forms (CRFs), questionnaires, and source documents for completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timely resolution of data discrepancies.
• Conduct routine data cleaning, validation, source data verification, and discrepancy resolution in collaboration with study nurses, laboratory staff, investigators, and the data management team.
• Maintain organized participant files, source documents, study logs, specimen tracking records, and other study documentation in compliance with study SOPs, GCP, and regulatory requirements.
• Track participant visit schedules, identify missing or overdue data, and generate routine data quality, recruitment, retention, and participant tracking reports to support study implementation.
• Support the maintenance of study databases, data management documentation, and the preparation of study reports, presentations, and data requests.
• Participate in study meetings, trainings, monitoring visits, audits, inspections, quality improvement activities, and the development and review of study SOPs.
• Ensure compliance with study protocols, institutional policies, ethical guidelines, data protection requirements, and perform any other study related duties assigned by the Supervisor.

Vacancy Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Degree in Data Management, Statistics or any related field.    Mandatory
•  Proficient in statistical packages eg stata, R SPSS or SQL programming.    Skills & Competencies
• Familiarity with data entry systems, databases, and software such as Inform, REDCap, Rave or other basic database tools.    Skills & Competencies
• Basic understanding of data quality assurance and data validation principles.    Skills & Competencies