Research Associate, Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health

Entity: Aga Khan University

Location: Karachi

Introduction
The Aga Khan University is a private, international university committed to international standards of excellence in teaching, research and service. Its teaching hospital, the Aga Khan University Hospital has been accredited by the prestigious Joint Commission International for achieving the highest international healthcare standards.

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

This a grant funded contractual position.

Responsibilities
You will be responsible to support the Research Specialist (RS) CoE to facilitate the effective implementation, conduct and evaluation of CoE programs and ensures that programs are adhering to ethical, medical and humanitarian principles. You will be responsible to:

• Coordinate all field activities of the project at the designated field sites for the completion of task within the stipulated timelines;
• provide training to the project staff at multiple field sites;
• coordinate with Government and Community stakeholders for carrying out the project activities in wherever required;
• visit field sites for monitoring and auditing purpose to ensure proper field operations as per the guidelines and SoPs provided;
• actively work on proposal development of research studies;
• liaison with granting agencies and other stake holders for project operations;
• prepare write-up of the results, manuscripts of paper, presentation and research proposals;
• carry out literature search, data searching and retrieval while utilizing a variety of technologies;
• contribute directly to the development of a research strategy for on-going research projects;
• preparation and compilation of study progress report.
  

Requirements
You should have:

• Bachelors in relevant field or equivalent;
• 1-2 years of related work experience;
• strong communication and interpersonal skills;
• team player;
• good writing skills;
• basic Knowledge of survey and other research designs;
• data collection, analysis and interpretation in terms of report writing and biostatistics;
• strong interpersonal skills and communication;
• willingness to travel to other locations as per the requirement of project.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.