Manager, Paediatrics & Child Health -MC

Introduction

The Outreach and Research Program of the Division of Women & Child Health has more than fifteen 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 well-established Data Management Unit, 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

Specific responsibilities include to:

• develop new programs and proofing the program to develop needed changes to assure production of a quality program.
• supervise all the research projects’ data entries and the quality of data at the Data Management Unit and at all the research field sites of the division, and ensure that all data is safely stored at Data Storage places and properly retrievable as per the requirements
• supervise and develop data management team, including continuous coaching of juniors for capacity development
• write programs to select, retrieve, edit, and analyse data
• develop strategic plan of data management for Electronic Data Capturing (EDC) to lead the transition from paper based entry to EDC and will plan and mobilize resources for it
• design questionnaires and programming in consultation with project supervisors
• analyze research data and generate reports accordingly
• review all project protocols and data collection tools to ensure that collected data meet project’s needs, statistical and scientific requirements
• provide support for data presentation for publication of research studies results
• keep close liaison with project supervisors, principal investigators and departmental head
• ensure the integrity of research projects data and provide supervision for data quality assurance
• assist data management staff in the design of study databases. As needed, review study database structures and data management project conventions
• coordinate with other research sections to assess their data management requirements and, plan and execute accordingly
• provide Support in statistical workshops/seminars

Requirements: 

You should have:

• Master’s in computer sciences or equivalent. Professional level courses and certifications in IT will be additional advantage
• at least five years of diverse corporate experience with at least three years of data management experience at senior level preferably in healthcare or research organization of good repute
• excellent knowledge of databases and computer programming (SQL, Visual Basic)
• comprehensive knowledge of modern tools and techniques for research data management
• sufficient knowledge of statistics, analytical approach to the research data
• experience in statistical softwares i.e. SPSS, Stata & SAS etc.
• excellent project management skills including ability to lead work force and manage resources effectively
• strong management and supervision skills
• excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to present complex ideas and information in clear and meaningful form to various stakeholders
• excellent ability to manage multiple tasks effectively under work pressure
• willingness for extensive travelling nationally and internationally, including deputation there as well, and travelling to data management units at various field sites for monitoring and supervision.