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

Specialist (Data Management)

Department

Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health

Entity

Medical College

Location

Karachi, Pakistan

Introduction

The Data Management Unit of the department is responsible for providing data management, Android development and computing support to the wide range of community and clinical research projects of the department. The unit has longstanding experience in data management of various research projects. The core areas of activity include designing and archiving Case Report Forms, data entry and management programming, data analysis, GIS mapping, Android development, IT and computing support. 

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 develop, design, deploy and conduct testing of websites, web applications, and web-based dashboards, collaborate with development and design teams to create new features and improve the user experience.

Specific Responsibilities Include To:

• 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;
• experience in Web Development and design;
• complete Understanding of software application development lifecycle and up to date on developments in web applications and programming languages;
• national and international travelling as per the requirement of project. 

Requirements

You Should Have:

• 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.