Early Post-Doctoral Researcher at Kenya Medical Research - KEMRI

Key Responsibilities:

• Work as the lead scientists in Kenya within the Health Systems Research Ethics Department in partnership with Oxford including to help develop, conduct and report on a specific set of research objectives. This is likely to include overseeing and managing a budget, conducting literature reviews, writing specific ethics submissions, developing / refining mixed methods data collection tools, coordinating and conducting fieldwork, supervising research assistants, analysing data and writing first-author publications.
• Bring theoretical and practical expertise in topics such as empirical ethics, moral distress, power-relations in health and research systems, organisational and team functioning, health system resilience, and implementing and evaluating complex interventions.
• Contribute to building capacity in empirical ethics and health systems research in the programme through: building a small team of staff in Kenya working on the project, supervising masters and phd level researchers, and contributing to organising training and skills-sharing meetings
• Engage with relevant stakeholders in Kenya (including KWTRP managers, senior researchers, ethics committee members, science advisors, health system managers, frontline staff, community representatives), and internationally (including with a frontline staff network, scientific advisors and funders).
• Communicate research goals and findings to different audiences through presentations, talks, publications and other written outputs including as appropriate for websites and social media platforms
• Ensure the ethical conduct of research and foster an inclusive and supportive research culture

Vacancy Requirements:

• A relevant PhD/DPhil in health-related topics such as empirical ethics, philosophy, health system resilience/responsiveness, organisational management, public/community engagement, human behaviour, psychology, anthropology.    Mandatory
• Demonstrated experience in planning and undertaking empirical ethics or health systems studies, including planning for and collecting, analysing and interpreting data.    Mandatory
• Demonstrated ability to conduct and manage complex empirical studies including the supervision of research assistants and data quality assurance so that high quality data is produced    Mandatory
• Evidence of ability to produce and publish high quality research that draws on appropriate theory.    Mandatory
• Experience of working with international research PIs and with frontline health system/ research staff    Mandatory
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write reports for different audiences and present the group at meetings.    Mandatory
• Demonstrated interest in equity in health systems and research conduct; knowledge and working experience in Kenya an added advantage    Desirable
• Proficiency in use of qualitative analysis software such as NVivo and, desirable, basic skills in quantitative analysis    Skills & Competencies
• Ability to conduct literature reviews including use of specific search strategies    Skills & Competencies
• Experience in developing an analytic plan and collating, analysing and interpreting qualitative data    Skills & Competencies
• Excellent range of skills across the MS Office suite    Skills & Competencies
• Have high energy, clear goal orientation and a strong work ethic.    Skills & Competencies
• Strong organisation/programme management skills with the ability to prioritise workloads and work within tight deadlines    Skills & Competencies
• Ability to write clearly for a scientific audience and to present clearly to non-academic audiences    Skills & Competencies
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment and to multi-task    Skills & Competencies
• Ability to travel within Kenya to remote areas and reside for periods required to collect data or provide supervision    Skills & Competencies
• Ideally the person would be able to travel internationally as part of the multi-country partnership    Skills & Competencies