Research Associate

Research Associate

Introduction

Aga Khan University, chartered in 1983 as Pakistan's first private international university, is committed to the provision of education, research and health care of international standard relevant to Pakistan and the region. The affiliated Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) has well-equipped investigative services and provides state-of-the-art clinical facilities. AKUH is the first hospital in Pakistan to be awarded the prestigious Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) for practicing the highest internationally-recognized healthcare standards.

The Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health aims to support the introduction, scale-up and further piloting of high quality and high impact interventions to improve Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MNCAH) in Pakistan by harnessing the potential of both public and private sectors, coupled with introduction of women and girls empowerment intervention.

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 is a grant-funded contractual position.
 

Responsibilities

You will be responsible to:

• Identification of the patient for the ongoing study and also enrolled patient for the Research study;
• to follow up the research study patient and update schedule of visit;
• collect and maintain records of identified cases;
• ensure participation of community in Research project to increase case reporting;
• design and plan social mobilization strategies for community people to co-operate/collaborate with Research projects;
• to provide appropriate guidance to children screen positive with disability or malnourished;
• training of CHWs & Centre staff, maintaining a working environment in the health center;
• monitoring the data collection processes in the field;
• evaluating and Validating the data collected;
• development of data collection forms;
• provide training to field workers, research assistants and other Junior Research Medical Officers;
• weekly and Progress Report writing for each month;
• any other task assigned by the supervisor;
• prepare and present weekly project related activity reports.
   

Requirements

You should have:

• MBBS plus One Year house Job/internship; MA-Sociology; Masters in Psychology or any other relevant field;
• 1 year experience preferably in field/Community/Paediatrics;
• willing to work at field sites;
• ability to work in a team;
• ability to establish harmonious working relations at the place of work;
• flexibility in taking over additional/new responsibilities when required by project;
• knowledge of application of related software packages;
• good communication Skills (English & Urdu, knowledge of Sindhi would be an asset)

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.