Vacancies at Kenya Medical Research - KEMRI

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide high-quality nursing care to participants,
• Conduct participant’s assessments, monitor vital signs, and assist in the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
• Obtaining informed consent and enrolment of participants into study.
• Explaining study procedures to eligible participants
• Obtains medical history and performs physical examination
• Offers individual, group and family counseling to participants and patients
• Confirms eligibility for all study participants
• Conducts protocol specific tests and procedures
• Providing project management team with regular feedback on participant recruitment.
• Provide HIV counseling, testing and lab results interpretation
• Verify quality of data by comparing abstracted data to source documents
• Responds to participant’s calls
• Administer the oral cholera vaccine and perform phlebotomy.
• Retention activities-follow up of participants in need of close monitoring and review together with visit reminders via phone calls
• Record any adverse events and notify the lead clinician of the same as per protocol
• Performs other duties as may be assigned
• Collaborate with the research team to collect, document, and report clinical data accurately.
• Administer Case Report Forms and perform quality checks
• Ensure compliance with ethical, regulatory, and clinical guidelines in all activities.
• Participate in training and capacity-building activities for clinic staff and community partners.

Vacancy Requirements:

• Diploma in Nursing    Mandatory
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both English and Kiswahili.    Mandatory
• Training in GCP and Human subjects will be an added advantage.    Added Advantage
• Experience with current methods of epidemiology surveillance; having worked in a multidisciplinary, multi-site project will be an added advantage    Added Advantage
• Registered with the Nursing Council of Kenya    Mandatory
• Team player    Mandatory
• Excellent Communication and people skills    Mandatory
• Highly organized    Mandatory
• Ability to work without supervision    Mandatory

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Key Responsibilities:

• Provide high-quality clinical care to participants, including HIV testing, counselling.
• Perform Phlebotomy
• Conduct participant assessments, eligibility, diagnose medical conditions, and develop treatment plans in line with the study protocol.
• Educate participants on Cholera prevention.
• Collaborate with the research team to collect, document, and report clinical data accurately.
• Ensure compliance with ethical, regulatory, and clinical guidelines in all activities.
• Participate in training and capacity-building activities for clinic staff and community partners.
• Informed Consent form administration
• Administer respective Case Report Forms (CRFs)
• Carrying out QA/QC of study CRFs, source docs, and resolve queries that may arise.
• Develop and review of clinic related related SOPs

Vacancy Requirements:

• Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery    Mandatory
• Valid Clinical officer’s license to practice in Kenya.    Mandatory
• Experience in research settings or clinical trials will be an added advantage    Added Advantage
• Strong clinical and diagnostic skills.    Mandatory
• Excellent communication and patient counselling skills.    Mandatory
• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team.    Mandatory
• Proficiency in electronic medical records (EMR) and data management systems.    Mandatory
• Knowledge of ethical and regulatory requirements for clinical research.    Mandatory
• Compassionate, patient-centred approach to care.    Mandatory
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.    Mandatory
• Commitment to advancing public health and HIV prevention.    Mandatory
• Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and Human Subject Protection (HSP) certification with Strong knowledge of ICH guidelines    Mandatory
• Maintain accurate and confidential participants records in compliance with site policies and regulations    Mandatory

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Key Responsibilities:

• Organizing and supervising the implementation of all laboratory activities
• Work with Research Administrator to ensure adherence to study deliverables time points and support the submission of periodic reports on project status
• Developing and designing local training and capacity building of project staff in collaboration with the study manager
• Development of Lab SoPs and training staff on the same.
• Liaising with relevant county and sub-county health management teams, MOH departmental heads, opinion leaders and other stakeholders
• Drafting, editing and preparing correspondence, reports and other project related materials
• Supporting quality assurance/quality control processes for the study data collection procedures
• Translate study tools and documents from English into local language as necessary.

Vacancy Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Science or a health related discipline; Public Health, Nursing, Clinical Medicine, Community Health from a recognized institution    Mandatory
• Training in Good Clinical Practice    Mandatory
• Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics skills will be an added advantage    Added Advantage