Jobs at Palladium International

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

The Qualitative Research Consultant will be responsible for the following:  
Study Design and Tool Development 

• Review and refine qualitative research questions in alignment with study objectives 
• Finalize and validate qualitative data collection tools, including In-depth interview (IDI) guides, Focus group discussion (FGD) guides, and Key informant interview (KII) guides 
• Ensure tools are contextually appropriate, culturally sensitive, and aligned with ethical standards 

Oversight of Data Collection 

• Provide technical oversight during qualitative data collection across selected sentinel facilities 
•  Ensure adherence to study protocol, consent procedures, and data quality standards 
• Provide guidance on managing sensitive topics related to HIV, funding disruptions, and workplace stress 

Data Management and Analysis 

• Guide transcription, translation, de-identification, and secure storage of qualitative data 
• Lead or supervise qualitative data coding using NVivo or equivalent software 

Interpretation and Reporting 

• Lead synthesis and interpretation of qualitative findings 
•  Generate analytical summaries aligned to each qualitative objective 
• Contribute to development of technical reports and policy-relevant insights and recommendations 

Key Deliverables  

• The Qualitative Research consultant will produce the following:  
• Finalized qualitative data collection tools 
• Interim progress report on data collection 
• Raw and cleaned, de-identified qualitative dataset 
• Verbatim transcripts in English of all IDIs, FGDs, and KIIs 
• Thematic analysis outputs 
• Qualitative findings report 

Required Qualification:
The Qualitative Research Consultant should have : 

• Degree in Public Health, Social Sciences, Statistics, Qualitative Research, or related field. Master’s degree or higher will be an added advantage
• Demonstrated expertise in qualitative research methods, including IDIs, FGDs, and KIIs 
• Demonstrated experience in conducting research on sensitive topic areas related to health 
• Proficiency in qualitative data analysis software (NVivo, R packages for qualitative analysis or equivalent software). 
• Proven ability to mentor research teams and lead qualitative analysis 
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with ability to engage diverse stakeholders. 

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Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with business analysts, product owner, domain experts, and other stakeholders to gather and translate user stories, business requirements and use cases into clear and appropriate functional, technical, and operational specifications and designs for health informatics applications.
• Utilize established development tools, guidelines, and conventions to design, develop, and test applications.
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Maintain existing HIS by identifying and correcting software defects.
• Integrate HIS software components and other third-party programs.
• Leverage knowledge and contribute to proper knowledge management within the project.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency. 
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related tasks as needed.
• Collaborate within existing open-source digital health / global goods communities to leverage standards and contributions of multiple interested parties for shared solutions to common problems.
• Conduct work breakdown planning for development and provide accurate and timely estimates for completing programming of features, bug fixes, and requests for scheduling into the SDLC.
• Follow Agile process and implement best practices.
• Any other duty as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information technology or a related field.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in web development with at least 2 years’ experience developing OpenMRS.
• Advanced knowledge and demonstrable skill with popular open-source programming languages (should include at least JAVA, PHP, JavaScript, Node), and frontend frameworks i.e. React, Angular, Vue, etc.
• Advanced experience in developing data-driven applications utilizing significant relational database engines as part of the overall application architecture (experience with any or all of the following highly desirable: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, H2 SQL) with great SQL query writing skills.
• Advanced knowledge of HTML and CSS.
• Proficiency developing and troubleshooting complex software systems that run in mixed environments including Linux, Unix and/or Windows on desktop, server, tablet, and mobile systems.
• Strong knowledge in RESTful web services.
• Working experience with GIT, Docker, Ansible, Gradle, Maven, Spring, Hibernate.
• Exposure to an agile development environment using Scrum.
• UI/UX experience.