Specialist (Data Management Unit), Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health

Entity: Aga Khan University

Location Karachi

Introduction to the Aga Khan University:

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.

Job Role / Responsibilities:

The incumbent will be responsible to develop, design and testing of native Android applications. Collaborate with development and design teams to create new features and improve the user experience.

Specific responsibilities will be:

• Plan, document & verify the project data collection requirements;
• communicate & coordinate with programmers for development of data collection / digitization applications;
• carry out User acceptance testing for data collection applications and ensure that the outputs are aligned with project requirements;
• regularly liase with the research teams/managers to ensure smooth execution of data collection activities;
• trouble shoot any issues which may hamper data collection/data quality;
• identify and document any possible issues in the data quality through regular review and running descriptive statistics;
• ensures the integrity of research projects data and provide supervision for data quality assurance;
• assist data management staff in the overall data management process. As needed, review study database structures and data management project conventions;
• provide Support training of field data collection teams.
  

Eligibility Criteria / Requirements:

• Master’s degree preferably with Statistics or Computer Science;
• certifications in Database management;
• knowledge of REDCap / ODK / CSPro will be an added advantage;
• at least 4 years of related work experience preferably with Research institute/ Data Management Organization;
• good interpersonal and communication skills;
• excellent Computers and Management skills;
• strong Analytical, Qualitative and written skills;
• able to use statistical software like STATA, SPSS, R;
• willing to travel to field sites outside Karachi frequently;
• excellent Team Player;
• good Knowledge of SQL Query Language.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.