Research Associate (Part-Time), Paediatrics & Child Health -MC

Introduction

The Outreach and Research Programme of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health has ten community-based field sites across Pakistan (including four in Karachi) and focuses on research for betterment of women and child health. The Department has a Nutritional Research Laboratory as well as an Infectious Disease Research Laboratory that cater to the needs of its research projects. It has well-acclaimed work to its credit both at the national and international level.

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.

Responsibilities

you will be responsible to:

• develop training material and conduct regular training of staff on research/interviewing skills and data collection processes
• manage fieldwork to ensure efficiency

• conduct interviews independently and taking thorough notes during observational visits and Interviews 

   

• liaison with admin regarding logistics for fieldwork
• visit field sites for monitoring and audit purpose to ensure proper field operations as per the provided guidelines and SOPs 
• do home visits and teach the research participant to prepare the Nutritional milk supplementation
• facilitate meetings among the research team and junior research staff
• ensure field implementation of project-related SOPs and deadlines as defined in the research project
• perform all other duties assigned from time to time by the Manager/research specialist in connection with the research projects.
• check the dashboard of the study regularly to ensure the due visits.
• check the data completion and quality.

Requirement

You should have:

• at least Bachelor’ s degree or Master’s in Social science will be preferred or equivalent
• 2-3 years of relevant work experience in managing community-based projects
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• basic Knowledge of surveys and other research designs
• strong interpersonal and communication skills 
• willingness to work on field sites