Vacancies at Kenya Medical Research - KEMRI

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead in the development, implementation and review of Clinical Trials Facility Departmental strategic and operational plans, budgets, policies and procedures that are aligned to the Programme’s strategic goals and objectives.
• Provide Strategic leadership, Management and supervision to the Clinical Trials facility teams by overseeing Departmental operations and activities to ensure operational efficiency and significant contribution in the delivery of the Department’s Mandate.
• Lead in the Clinical Trials Facility Regulatory Compliance by ensuring that all national and international regulatory, legal and/or policy changes are monitored, documented and incorporated into the Programme’s relevant Policies and Procedures.
• Oversee maintenance, calibration, and availability of clinical trial-related infrastructure and equipment.
• Lead in Research Quality Assurance (QA) and Monitoring by providing leadership and oversight in quality assurance and monitoring documentations, policies, processes and interventions in liaison with the research Governance team.
• Build and maintain internal and external strategic partnerships, networks, exchanges and collaborations and provide the necessary support to researchers in the development of proposals and securing of research funding
• Provide Project Management oversight of all Clinical Trials Facility Projects and initiatives to ensure completion as per agreed timelines
• Support the management in decision making by providing strategic Clinical Trials advice, ad hoc and scheduled reports, management briefs, recommendations and participate in Strategic level meetings and other interactions.
• Support grant funded activities, feasibility assessments and engagements including visits, and internal reviews from an operational and logistical perspective, in collaboration with study teams and other applicable departments within the Programme
• Responsible for capacity building on Clinical Trials by overseeing the design and implementation of all Departmental capacity building initiatives such as mentorships, trainings, orientations, seminars and other interactive learning sessions.
• Lead in identifying and implementing new developments, Innovations and approaches in Clinical Trials to ensure that the Programme keeps abreast with emerging trends in Clinical Research.

Vacancy Requirements:

• Minimum PhD in medicine, Science, Public Health or any other relevant field from a recognized university.    Mandatory
• Certifications in Clinical Practice and Research Ethics from recognized institutions    Mandatory
• Must have a Minimum eight (8) years overall experience, four (4) years of which were at Senior Management level at a reputable organization    Mandatory
• Experience in managing Clinical Trials in a regulated Health Research, grant funded and multidisciplinary environment.    Mandatory
• Certificate in Leadership and/or Management from a recognized institution    Mandatory
• Demonstrated high levels of confidentiality and integrity    Mandatory
• Excellent interpersonal, written, presentation and communication skills    Mandatory
• Ability to build strong and diverse effective teams, delegation and team motivation    Mandatory
• Good fund raising, networking and collaboration skills.    Mandatory
• Strong strategic thinking, leadership and decision-making skills    Mandatory

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Key Responsibilities:

• Provide quality clinical care to research participants.
• Maintain study documentation, adhering to Good Documentation Practice.
• Supervise study staff and conduct study activities according to the protocol and standard operating procedures, including reviewing clinical source documents, completing clinical assessment questionnaires, post-procedure monitoring and documentation and follow-up assessments of participants.
• Carry out specimen collection procedures in strict adherence to the study protocol and standard operating procedures.
• Assist in the consenting and recruitment of study participants.
• Assist in maintaining study participants’ documentation and performing clinical procedures under the guidance of the site lead and/or the PI when required to do so.
• Attend and participate in study related trainings and taking up the responsibility of ensuring that your training is up to date as per the training logs.
• Attend clinical skills training and updates when required to.
• Attend and participate in study related meetings and other meetings as needed.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by to them by the site lead or Principal Investigator.

Vacancy Requirements:

• Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery    Mandatory
• Registered with the Clinical Officers Council of Kenya    Mandatory
• A minimum of three (3) years of experience in inpatient care    Mandatory
• Use of Windows, Microsoft Office software    Mandatory
• Previous experience in clinical research    Added Advantage
• Recent clinical experience in pediatric care    Added Advantage
• Training in Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and Research Ethics    Added Advantage
• Ability to lead, supervise and work within a team    Mandatory
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.    Mandatory
• Good writing and presentation skills.    Mandatory 
• Demonstrable excellent communication and leadership skills.    Mandatory
• Demonstrable excellent organizational skills.    Mandatory
• Ability to work well in a multi-cultural team, prioritize, set and meet objectives.    Mandatory
• Flexibility, adaptability, multi-tasking, and attention to detail.    Mandatory
• Conscientiousness, timeliness, and willingness to work to meet deadlines.    Mandatory
• Flexibility, adaptability, multi-tasking, and attention to detail.    Mandatory
• Conscientiousness, timeliness, and willingness to work to meet deadlines.    Mandatory

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Key Responsibilities:

• Operationalise implementation science frameworks within a multi-country health systems evaluation, ensuring methodological coherence across adoption, implementation, and maintenance domains.
• Design, specify, and maintain indicator sets and measurement plans for implementation strength, including formal definition, weighting, and validation of facility-level Implementation Strength components across health system domains.
• Lead the quantitative development and refinement of the implementation index
• Design and conduct quantitative process evaluations linking implementation strength and fidelity to coverage, intermediate outcomes, and system performance.
• Oversee the execution, scoring, and analytic integration of Health Facility Readiness Assessments (HFRA), ensuring standardisation across sites and alignment with system-readiness constructs.
• Coordinate and analyse Quality Improvement (QI) event logs, audits, and commodity and stock tracking data, translating operational disruptions and implementation adaptations into analytically tractable variables.
• Contribute to the development of reproducible analytic pipelines (script-based workflows), including data cleaning, indicator construction, model estimation, and documentation.
• Generate high-frequency implementation performance dashboards and quantitative learning products to support adaptive programme management.
• Lead the synthesis of quantitative findings into learning briefs, technical reports, and peer-reviewed manuscripts focused on implementation effectiveness and health system performance.
• Engage with implementation partners and national stakeholders to contextualise quantitative findings, support interpretation of heterogeneity, and inform adoption and maintenance analyses.

Vacancy Requirements:

• PhD (or near completion) in Implementation Science/Health Systems/Global Health.    Mandatory
• Experience applying RE AIM or similar frameworks and managing multi-site process evaluations.    Mandatory
• Programme measurement, quantitative analysis, QI methods, stakeholder facilitation, excellent writing.    Mandatory