Job Title: Social Sciences LEAD
Organisation: Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Principal Investigator
About US:
Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is an independently governed institute within the College of Health Sciences at Makerere University and has the mission “To strengthen health systems in Africa, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases, through research and capacity development.” IDI has operations across Uganda as well as in a number of other African countries and has a staffing of over 1,000 managing multiple projects in research, clinical services, public health and training.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Grant applications and proposal development for new research
- Conduct mentorship activities to junior staff
- Contribute to designing and revision of qualitative tools
- Organize and participate in debrief sessions with research team members on qualitative data collection.
- Collect or supervise data for qualitative interviews
- Analyze qualitative data
- Play critical role in development and revision of abstracts and manuscripts
- Support grant writing and resource generation for the Academy.
- Assist in preparation of study protocols and progress reports for IRB and other research bodies
- Work with management to prepare project plans, budget and schedules
- Ensure research project compliance and adherence to the ethical and regulatory requirements
- Conduct data collection in hard to reach areas like Islands in Kalangala
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Masters degree in social sciences, or any relevant field e.g Psychology, Public health, sociology
- Certificate in Good clinical Practice
- Certificate in Human Subject Protection
- Other Professional training with added advantage
- Certificate in computer assisted Qualitative data analysis using NVivo or ATLAS.ti software
- Certificate in Research Writing in the Social Sciences course
- Certificate in Project Management in Global Health course
- Research skills
- Analytical skills
- Computer literacy
- Organizational skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Supervisory skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Willingness to problem solve
- Resilience
- Decisions required on job
- Budget expenditure decisions
- Designing and revision of data collection tools
- Developing workplans
- Manuscript writing
- Experience of at least 2 years and knowledge in establishing research project and overseeing and managing project start-up and close-out
- Formal training in qualitative study designs and conduct as well as over 4 years of research experience with focus in HIV research, TB and other infectious diseases
- Experience conducting interviews, including design and reporting among populations living with HIV in Uganda
- Publication of research, at least two manuscripts as first author
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested applicants should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 31st March 2024
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