Vacancies at Kenya Medical Research - KEMRI

Vacancy No. CGHR/289/05/22

Essential Qualifications

• Minimum grade of D+(plus) in KCSE
• Minimum of 2 years working experience in data entry preferable within a busy research set-up.
• Good Clinical practice (GCP) certificate
• A certificate in computer applications including Microsoft Excel, Ms- Access, Microsoft Word

Desirable Qualities

• Attention to details and good work ethics
• Must have good organizational skills.
• Ability to work well in a team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Data entry Clerk will report to the data manager to perform the following tasks.
• Ensure timely and accurate data entry into the database(s) – meet data team allocated targets
• Communicate closely with Data Manager to ensure priority tasks are completed.
• Work with the Data Specialist to ensure that data is routinely backed up, and uphold maximum data confidentiality
• Deal with routine problems or issues that arise during data entry
• Attending quality control meetings.
• Liaising with data manager to track and schedule study visits.
• To assist in other duties that may be assigned by the data manager

Terms of Employment: Contract for 1 year, renewable as per KEMRI scheme of service. Probation period for the first 3 month.

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Vacancy: CGHR/291/05/22

Job Description

The community interviewers will report directly to product manager and will be responsible for collecting timely and accurate data in their assigned households and health facilities

Essential Requirements

• A Minimum mean grade of D+ plus in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
• Must be able to ride a motorcycle
• Should have a valid driver’s license free of any encumbrance and valid for the class of motorcycle
• Must be willing to reside within the study area
• Able to speak, read and write in English and Kiswahili
• Ability to speak Teso would be an added advantage
• Experience working with CHVs in the community would be an added advantage

Skills, knowledge and Abilities

• Must be able to operate and take care of an electronic data collection instrument such as a tablet.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with members of the community.

Specific tasks and responsibilities

The community interviewers’ responsibilities shall include and not limited to the following:

• Supervise distribution and replacement of Envelopes by community health volunteers (CHVs)
• Coordinate with the CHVs and develop and distribution and replacement plan for Envelopes
• Distribution of Envelopes to the CHVs each morning and collection of used and unused Envelopes for storage at the respective study storage facilities.
• Plan appropriately to ensure availability of all supplies required for product distribution and replacement
• Ensure that data on Envelope distribution and replacement is captured accurately and completely using the tablets
• Attend study debriefing meetings and present reports on progress within assigned clusters
• Be courteous, respectful, honest, proactive, conscientious, punctual and hardworking
• Complete any other duties assigned or delegated by the management

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Vacancy No. CGHR/290/05/22

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration/ Accounting/ Finance or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.
• Knowledge of administrative, budgetary, financial, and human resources policies and procedures.
• Have proficiency in computer applications.

Key Skills and Competencies

• Strong communication and reporting skills
• Good interpersonal, decision making and analytical skills.
• Team player
• Excellent personnel and financial management skills
• Strong organizational, office and time management skills
• Ability to multi-task and take initiatives with minimal supervision.
• Proficiency in use of computer packages such as Excel, MS-Word, and QuickBooks
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, within strict deadlines and flexibility to ad-hoc schedules
• Ability to manage complex assignments, plan, and monitor budget expenditures.
• Previous Internship experience within the Malaria Branch will be an added advantage.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with finance on activities related to budgets for new funding, project/project preparation and submissions, progress reports, developing and planning budgets for each project strategic
• area and assists in forecasting future resource needs.
• Track expenditure and prepare timely reports for submission to Project Manager, PIs, Partners and Donors
• Review financial and administrative vouchers and monitor MPESA payments.
• Recommend approvals of project operating invoices and vouchers for payment.
• Liaise with finance to ensure funds are available before processing LPOs and with relevant departments to ensure Request for Purchases is completed for timely procurement and delivery of project supplies.
• Maintain an inventory register and conduct unannounced inventories inspection to ensure all assets are available and maintained per schedule.
• Manage office transport, track vehicle and motorbike expenses and highlight concerns
• Liaise with Human Resource on hiring and orientation of project staff.
• Manage timesheet tracker per project and maintain leave schedules.
• Coordinate archiving of branch files.
• Coordinate branch meetings and take minutes.
• Facilitate processing of travel requisitions.
• Coordinate clearance of visitors to the branch and liaise with relevant departments for clearance, work permits, hotel reservations, ground transportation and office space.
• Prepare welcome packet for visiting scientists.
• Generating reports on operations, maintenance, and utilization
• Any other related duties as may be assigned from time to time by the immediate supervisor

Terms of Employment: Contract for 1 year. Probation period for the first 3 months.

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Vacancy No. CGHR/288/04/22

Job Summary:

The data analyst’s position requires the incumbent to perform various data management, processing and analysis functions for the influenza program in an accurate and timely fashion. The data analyst will also assist with management of the laboratory related data for other FHU related studies.

Essential qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Mathematics, computer science or any related field from a recognized training institution
• Minimum of 1 years’ experience in a busy data processing, management and analysis field.
• Excellent knowledge and working experience of at least one statistical package for data manipulation and analysis (STATA, SPSS, SAS, R) and one database management software (SQL server, MS Access).
• Knowledge of Visual Basic® and other programming languages in the NET environment is an added advantage.
• Experience working with electronic data collection systems in clinical settings will be an added advantage.

Skills

• Ability to develop an in-depth understanding of study goals and its implementation.
•  Strong self-motivation and ability to work in a team, with good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability and willingness to learn additional skills and strategies and implement on the job.
• Very good interpersonal relations and able to work with little or no supervision.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines

Specific duties and responsibilities

The data analyst will be required to;

• Develop an in-depth understanding of the data management process and the data being managed.
• Participate in design of data collection tools and data capture applications.
• Design and manage databases and data entry/capture procedures.
• Be involved in data downloading and uploading from mobile devices such as Netbooks, Tablets and Smartphones.
• Participate in developing data analysis plans in consultation with the study investigators and statistician.
• Participate in data retrieval, analysis and interpretation.
• Collate, query and clean data coming in from the field sites including flagging out inconsistencies and/or errors arising from data obtained from the field as part of routine data checks
• Perform various data manipulations, analyses and generate reports and tables as requested.
• Deal with routine problems arising in the course of data handling.
• Perform additional duties as may be assigned by the supervisor. 

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Vacancy: CGHR/250/01/22

Job Summary:

We are looking for a motivated Bioinformatician to join our research team in advancing the use of next generation systems of high-throughput RNA and DNA sequencing for informing malaria vector control policy. This individual will support research scientists and students by providing data analysis support for the teams in Kenya and Benin as they analyse RNAseq, WGS and other ‘omics data through a virtual high-performance compute (HPserver. The successful candidate should work well in a team environment, exercise great attention to detail, and have keen analytical insight. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a talented and dynamic team working on novel approaches for understanding insecticide resistance in malaria vectors in Africa.

Essential Requirements:

• PhD in Bioinformatics and/or Computational sciences OR MSc in Bioinformatics with at least 5 years high level experience (equivalent to a Senior scientist level).
• Expertise in genomics, population genetics, data science, computational biology
• Hands on experience with scripting languages such as Linux, Python, R and a strong grounding in biological sciences
• Familiarity with commonly used tools for variant detection (samtools, bowtie2, BWA, IGV, ANNOVAR, GATand file formats (BED, VCF, FASTQ, BAM, FASTA)
• Familiarity with commonly used and publicly available bioinformatics databases (e.GenBank, Uniprot, DDBJ, Ensemble, GEO, SRA, ExAC, ESP,ClinVar, VectorBase, KEGG, HGMD, OMIM, PubMed, UCSC)
• Experience designing bioinformatics experiments and/or providing oversight for the design of'omics/bioinformatics experiments.
• Experience working with unstructured data sources, (experience with genome assembly)
• An understanding of genome sequencing technologies and strategies.
• Having a familiarity with Big Data analysis including data mining, complex data visualization.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
• Organized, Hardworking and independent – The candidate must be able to plan and implement their workplans within the required timelines

Desirable Attributes

• Enthusiastic and strong interest in mosquito genomics, insecticide resistance and vector control
• Experience with mathematical modelling and computational biology
• Strong project management, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Membership of relevant professional networks (h3A, ASBCB, EASCB, ISCB and ISMB)
• Previous work with mosquitoes, or knowledge and ecology of mosquitoes will be an added advantage
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning skills in design of appropriate statistical analysis of experimental data
• Experience working with high-performance computing
• Experience in successfully leading teams

Skills and abilities:

• Excellent organizational capability to structure and organize tasks and set priorities logically and effectively
• Results driven; ability to judiciously spend resources available to achieve the most optimal outcomes
• Ability to build and lead strong teams and achieve projected milestones
• Ability to identify potential problems and trouble-shoot solutions

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Participation in capacity building on bioinformatics by guiding MSc and PhD students on the project in both Kenya and Benin
• In charge of reception and storage of raw sequence data from the sequencing facilities, uploading to the high compute servers
• Take leadership in setting up virtual classroom discussions; small group discussions; data carpentry workshops, personalized virtual office hours with trainees on the statistical analyses of genomic data
• Participation in designing, review and update of the vector genomics and bioinformatics training curriculum
• Leadership in conceptualizing, innovating and development of new bioinformatic pipelines for analysis of genomic data
• Conduct bioinformatic analysis of raw sequence data to identify molecular markers associated with insecticide resistance in malaria vectors
• Attend conferences and workshops to disseminate research findings
• Leadership in drafting of technical reports, manuscripts, and outcomes of the project outputs
• Perform any other duties as assigned by the principal investigator