Job Openings at Kenya Medical Research - KEMRI

Vacancy No. FN-12-02-2023

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology or a any related health research field.
• Excellent inter-personal skills and a willingness to work with others to overcome problems as and when they arise.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
• Able to re-locate to Kisumu for this position.
• Willingness to work in urban and rural areas for study purposes.

Desirable Qualifications

• Good Communication skills in Swahili.
• Experience in drafting manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals.
• Experience managing funds from international donor organisations
• Excellent inter-personal skills and a willingness to work with others to overcome
• problems as and when they arise.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
• Willing to re-locate to Kisumu for this position.

Responsibilities

• Plan, manage and supervise the day-to-day management and study visits for ongoing trials.
• Prepare and submit trial documents to ethics and regulatory committees as required, including protocol amendments and six-monthly reports.
• Supervise responses to data queries, review case report forms and other relevant study documentation, and maintain Study Master Files.
• Participate in communication between KEMRI, study sponsors and the other study partners.
• Lead and supervise the study teams to ensure that the studies are conducted to GCP and international trial standards.
• Organise and participate in meetings regarding research progress, results and any other aspects of the studies

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Vacancy No. FN-13- 02-2023

Qualifications

• BSc in Computer Science, Biostatistics, Applied Statistics, mathematical sciencesor any other related field
• Familiarity with modern database systems and information technologies including USSDs, Cloud computing and cloud server management
• Knowledge of statistical packages/programs such as R, MySQL and STATA will be an added advantage

Desirable Qualities

• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and a focus on quality and innovation
• Ability to prioritize work, exercise initiative and work with minimal direction
• Adaptability to changes in work duties, responsibilities, and requirements
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with colleagues, including research scientists

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, build and implement study databases and data collection tools
• Conduct training of all data clerks and relevant staff on data-specific items, study protocol, SOPs and documents, and equipment use as assigned by the data manager
• Oversee data clerk duties
• Devise and implement , efficient procedures for the automation of data outputs and dashboards for data visualization
• Take lead in QA/QC processes across studies; hands-on preforming QA/QC of eCRFs, chart notes and name charts to ensure quality and accuracy and generation of real time reports to management and support to the team.

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Vacancy No. FN-14-02-2023

Qualifications

• Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery
• Valid Practicing license

Required Experience

• At least two (2) years Clinical research experience is an added advantage
• Must be registered with the Clinical Officers Council of Kenya.
• Good Clinical Practice training/Human Subjects Protection training

Other Required Skills

• Demonstrated track record working in busy clinic
• Knowledge and experience in vaccine administration and psychosocial counselling
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and listening skills
• Must be able to work in a professional and ethical manner with competence, accountability, and integrity
• Basic computer skills
• Detail-oriented

Duties and Responsibilities

• Register, consent study participants and assist with eligibility screening and enrolment of study participants.
• Prescreening of participants
• Support in health talks to participants at the clinic and mobilization sources
• Conduct physical and medical examinations for study participants.
• Perform phlebotomy and collect nasal swab specimen collection
• Complete case report forms and work closely with the study doctor to report all possible SAEs to the study safety monitor and KEMRI IRB.

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Vacancy No. FN-15-02-2023

Qualifications

• Diploma in Medical Laboratory, biomedical laboratory or biochemical laboratory.
• Extensive and recent hands-on experience on running HIV-1, Pregnancy testing, CD4 count, PCR, HIV ELISA assays and medical sample shipment.
• Must have Good Clinical laboratory Practice training and/or CITI training.

Experience

• At least two (2) experience is an added advantage Must be registered with the Clinical Officers Council of Kenya.
• Good Clinical Practice training/Human Subjects Protection training

Qualities Required

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Extensive organization skills
• Ability to work in a clinically busy, resource-challenged and demanding environment
• Commitment to integrity and high quality performance
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team
• Keen and attentive to detail
• Ability to communicate lab results, write reports and trouble shoot lab equipment related challenges
• Proactive, ability to work independently, interact well with other departments
• Familiarity with a multi- department clinical lab setting

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Accurate and timely performing of Study specific assays
• Nasal Swab collection of participants
• Ensuring custody of participant specimens and storage/archival
• Appropriate reporting of any abnormal lab result
• Ensure maintenance and troubleshooting on all lab equipment and report to the supervisor

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Vacancy No. FN-16-02-2023

Qualifications

• Diploma in Community Health, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sociology, Psychological Counselling or other related fields.
• Experience in working in a busy clinical research set up with extensive hands-on experience working in with communities and other stakeholders.

Experience

• More than two (2) years Clinical research experience
• Experience working in a busy reproductive health service provision/promotion organization or delivery of contraceptive services.
• Good Clinical Practice training/Human Subjects Protection training is an added advantage
• Ability to hold discussions with community gate keepers, and other key stakeholders in the community.

Other Required Skills

• Commitment to integrity and high quality performance
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team
• Keen and attentive to detail
• Ability to task-shift
• Ability to work independently, team player, good communicator, respectful, flexible, enthusiastic, innovative and proactive
• Articulate in both verbal and written communication in English and Swahili. Luo speakers have an added advantage.
• Experience in mobilizing the community especially youth and women organizations
• Computer literacy
• Counselling skills

Duties and Responsibilities

• Community engagement
• Community sensitization and mobilization for the study.
• Work with CORPS to map study area and recruit potential subjects
• Hold regular meetings and communication with local leaders and Community Units
• Network with stakeholders
• Participate in accelerated mobilization (distributing flyers and posters and conducting a mobile campaign with a public address system to mobilize the community.
• Liaise with community leaders, gatekeepers and the community members about the study in consultation with the retention officer
• Community Advisory Board formulation and continuously liaising with the board