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Job Title:           35 Research Assistant (35 No Experience Data Collection Jobs) 

Organization:  Makerere University College of Health
Sciences

Duty Station:    Kampala, Uganda

About US:

In 2018, Makerere University
College of Health Sciences through the School Public Health (MakSPH) with
funding from The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) conducted a study entitled,
“Formative Assessment of HIV, Gender-Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive
Health Status among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Uganda”, which was
referred to as the “AGYW Study”. 

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

·        
Properly sample households and enroll study
participants as per study protocol

·        
Perform field data collection and management
activities, administer informed consent, conduct and complete interviews in
accordance with the study protocol

·        
Answer questions that the respondents may ask
before or during the course of data collection

·        
Collect data and participate in data management
processes including validation to ensure quality data collection

·        
Conduct key informant interviews, in-depth
interviews, focus group discussion, and desk reviews for the mid-term
evaluation of Global Fund-supported AGYW Project

·        
Transcribe qualitative research interviews and
participate in qualitative data analysis, where applicable

·        
Provide the Team Leader with daily updates
including households visited, interviews completed, and any other important
information about assigned participants

·        
Any other duties assigned by the data collection
team leaders or the Study Coordinator

Qualifications,
Skills and Experience:

·        
Ability to spend a period in rural areas and
away from home

·        
Ability to work independently with minimal
supervision and observe deadlines

·        
Must be willing to work in any part of Uganda

·        
Ability to spend an extended period of time in
rural areas and away from home

·        
Willing to reside in the district for the entire
study period

·        
Ability to work under stringent deadlines and
independently with minimal supervision

·        
Possession of a Certificate in Good Clinical
Practice and/or Human Subjects

·        
Protection and prior data collection experience
in the selected region is desired

·        
Bachelor’s degree in Humanities, Statistics,
Public Health, or any other related discipline

·        
Proficiency in both spoken and written English
and a common local language spoken in that district Prior experience in
conducting face to face interviews

·        
Prior experience in collecting quantitative and
qualitative data particularly among adolescents and young people

·        
Excellent communication, organizational and
interpersonal skills and ability to follow study specific procedures and
guidelines reliably

How to Apply:

Interested persons should send
their application and updated CVs stating two referees and their contacts to
the Dean, Makerere University School of Public Health. Please submit your
application to: dean@musph.ac.ug indicating the position applied for in the
subject line of your email.

Hard-copy applications will not
be accepted.

NB: Only short-listed candidates
will be contacted

Deadline: Friday 1^st
November 2019 at 5:00 pm.

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