Careers at Kenya Medical Research - KEMRI

Job purpose:

The selected candidate will handle project accounting, logistics and administrative duties at the Clinical Trials site in Thika.

Responsibilities:

•  Maintain project accounting records using QuickBooks
•  Prepare and submit timely and accurate financial monthly reports on usage of project funds to multiple donors and sponsors for various studies.
•  To prepare monthly study budgets.
•  Monitor budgets utilization and communicate variances on a regular basis to the management and sponsors.
•  To receive and account for office petty cash.
•  Maintain complete and accurate office petty cash records and reconciliations.
•  To assist in the management of office and study supplies.
•  Effectively manage service providers and suppliers.
•  Provide administrative, operations and logistical support to ongoing study activities.
•  Manage project vehicles and coordinate transport.
•  To implement financial policies and procedures.
•  Assist in managing vendor and utility bills.
•  Ensure all project equipment are well maintained and operating optimally and maintain fixed assets register.
•  Maintain assets register and ensure that project equipment is well maintained.
•  Any other duty assigned by the management from time to time.

Education and Experience:

•  Must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting
•  Be a Certified Public Accountant
•  Advanced excel knowledge and experience are required
•  Exposure to QuickBooks accounting package will be an added advantage

Competencies and skills:

•  Excellent computer skills
•  Excellent administrative skills
•  Excellent report writing skills
•  strong personal communication
•  Mature and self-motivated
•  High Integrity and confidentiality
•  Experience of accounting and/or bookkeeping
•  Excellent communications skills
•  Good planning and organizing skills
•  Ability to work independently 

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Purpose

To support community engagement activities, participant recruitment and retention activities for a research clinic team providing services to young and elderly in the general population.

Responsibilities

•  Work with the clinic team to identify and recruit eligible persons for study participation
•  Identify and support activities aimed at maintaining high retention of study participants
•  Conduct outreach activities in order to engage eligible participants
•  Attend and participate in trainings, team/staff meetings, and other events as needed.
•  Bring to the study teams’ attention any problems, challenges, observed in study activities
•  Perform other duties as assigned or required.

Education and Professional Training

•  Diploma in Counseling, Social work, Nursing or Clinical Medicine from a recognized Institution

Competencies

•  Basic Counseling
•  Basic IT and social media skills
•  Knowledge of non-communicable diseases care will be an added advantage

Experience

•  Minimum of 1 year experience with direct involvement in patient care or outreach- especially in non-communicable diseases clinics /centers
•  Peer support, outreach and coordination an added advantage
•  Should be familiar with the Ministry of Health systems

The eligible candidates will be based in Nairobi with frequent travel to sites within the Nairobi region and its environs.