Job Vacancies at Strathmore Business School

JOB PURPOSE:

This position is responsible for liaising with the country program coordinator, manage client – faculty affairs, and general program administration for executive education programs/seminars

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To support the implementation of country programs in Kenya and Zambia.
• To monitor program activities, support M&E activities (collect data, and draft reports of their findings),
• Support with planning program and event logistics and ensure that in-country linkages with affinity groups are maintained.
• Business Development, maintaining and creating new client relationships.
• Program management & administration. Preparation of program course materials, student communication as general and course-related & mailing to students.
• Budget management (Revenue, cost & margin management).
• Ensuring students attend class debt free.
• Faculty interactions, and follow-up on teaching materials with selected faculty.
• Student-lecturer liaison, follow-up, and acquisition of course materials from lecturers.
• Preparing claims for local and international faculty and hospitality arrangements.
• Implement all the detailed event management activities and schedules for the programs Request to Program Manager for casuals when necessary.
• Configuration of computers for lecturers and students to enable them to use wireless.
• Preparation of classrooms (chalk, markers, audiovisual equipment, water), printing name tags, and ensuring they are in place before class.
• Guest Speaker Relations including managing all the logistics.
• Prepare client reports and internal reports on projects progress and completion.
• Any other tasks that may be assigned within the project and in Executive Education (as needed).

JOB REQUIREMENTS

The post holder will be required to have and to demonstrate evidence of the following qualifications, attributes, and skills:

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a business-related field
• At least two years’ experience in an administrative support role preferably with experience of student administration or equivalent experience working in a busy office in an administrative role.
• Background in social entrepreneurship or entrepreneurship or a related field coupled with excellent report writing skills.
• Proven time management and organizational skills, delivering work with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail with minimal supervision.
• Effective written and oral communication skills and the ability to positively discuss and negotiate with clients, members of the business community, and University staff in the provision of professional quality client service.

Closing: 13th February 2023.

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JOB PURPOSE:

The job exists to provide Implementation of Science approaches and methods to support the design, implementation, and analysis of the second phase of the Pathways for Innovation in Blood Transfusion Services in Kenya (PITS Kenya) research project, and support the integration of quantitative, qualitative, and modelling workstreams.  Following the first phase (two-years; 2020-22) which took a broad, health systems approach to understand and improve the availability of blood, combining qualitative, quantitative, and process mapping and simulation modelling approaches, the second phase (four years; 2022-26) intends to take the learnings from the first phase to allow promising innovations to be designed, implemented and evaluated using appropriate implementation research methods.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The role involves working with and being accountable to a multi-disciplinary team on a significant global health problem over a four-year period. This full-time role will also involve research project management to coordinate operations across three counties and manage the delivery of research outputs. Specific responsibilities include:

• To support the design of the Phase 2 study using IS research methods.
• To manage the collection, storage, analysis, and interpretation of study data using either quantitative or qualitative methods, or both
• To organize, compile, and write research-related documentation (such as protocols for ethical approval, process documentation, manuscripts for publication and presentations)
• To deliver high-quality research & scholarship, individually and in collaboration with others, and publishing peer-reviewed outputs as lead and co-author
• To take a leading role in the writing of scientific papers, interim reports, and dissemination of project findings as well as making oral or poster presentations at scientific conferences, and assisting colleagues with such presentations as appropriate
• To package learnings and results for multi-country use and across the wider BLOODSAFE program
• To coordinate research activity across the three study sites, and coordinate activities across all organizations involved, both local and international
• To support grant management activities at Strathmore University

JOB REQUIREMENTS

The post holder will be required to have and to demonstrate evidence of the following qualifications, attributes, and skills:

• A Ph.D. in Health Sciences, Public Health, Health Economics, or a health systems-related field.
• Design and evaluation of Implementation Science studies
• Collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data in public health, medical or social science research using quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods.
• Research project management
• Financial management in a research or implementation project
• Fluency in Kiswahili and working proficiency in Luo, Turkana or Kikuyu languages.
• Strong problem-solving skills, flexibility, and creative approaches to challenging and remote work environments

Closing: 20th February 2023.