Vacancy: Research Assistant
Background:
Jacaranda Health is a social venture that aims to set a new
standard for maternity care in East Africa.
Jacaranda
Health combines business and clinical innovations to provide affordable
maternity and reproductive health services to low-income urban women.
Location: Nairobi
Job
Summary: This
study is seeking a research assistant to work on the Monitoring and Evaluation
team.
This
individual will work closely with the various members of the team to conduct
research on various aspects of reproductive, maternal and child
healthcare.
This
role will include the following responsibilities:
- Collecting
and organizing data
- Conducting
data entry
- Ensuring
data quality
Working
with M&E team members to improve and refine data collection and entry tools
We are
looking for someone who is interested in building up their research methods
skills.
This
person should be an intelligent, proactive, and flexible individual with
experience conducting surveys for health research and evaluations.
Conditions: This is a part time position with the possibility to transition to a full time position, subject to performance and availability of funding.
Conditions: This is a part time position with the possibility to transition to a full time position, subject to performance and availability of funding.
Employee
schedules will be planned on a weekly basis and Remuneration will be on a daily
rate
Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities
Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities
General
- Arrive
to work promptly and reliably
- Interact
with community members with the highest level of integrity, sensitivity
and understanding
- Recruit
eligible women into study and obtain informed consent using proper ethical
standards
- Collect
data through means such as in-person interviews, phone calls, and
observation
- Collaborate
with colleagues to improve one another’s data collection and data entering
skills
- Work
with the Program Officer to implement improvements to data collection
tools and methods
- Conduct
data entry using computer data entry system
- Attend
to other administrative duties, as assigned
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelors’
degree or college diploma/certificate
- 1
or more years of research-related work experience
- Excellent
oral and written communication skills in both English and Kiswahili
- Experience
with data collection through household and/or phone surveys, exit
interviews, focus groups, observation
- Ability
to recognize when questions are difficult or unclear to participants
- Excellent
note taking ability during interviews
- Willingness
to travel within Nairobi
- Dependable
and upholding highest level of honesty and confidentiality
- High
attention to detail and problem-solving skills
- Proactive,
self-motivated and team-oriented
- Ability
to multi-task effectively
- Comfortable
with interviewing individuals in a variety of locations
- Ability
to withstand demanding targets; does well under pressure
Desired
- Experience
or familiarity with maternal or newborn health
- Experience
with all data entry methods mentioned above
- Experience
with pilot studies, especially related to improving data collection tools
- Proficient
in Microsoft (MS Excel in particular); familiarity with database
management programs is a plus
How to
Apply
Interested candidates may apply by submitting their CV to jobs@jacarandahealth.org with subject title, “PART TIME RA APPLICATION – FULL NAME”.
Interested candidates may apply by submitting their CV to jobs@jacarandahealth.org with subject title, “PART TIME RA APPLICATION – FULL NAME”.