Associate Researcher

A Healthcare Company who is passionate about providing Clinical Care to HIV positive adults, children and adolescents is currently looking for a dynamic and driven Associate Researcher based in Johannesburg

The candidate will be ensuring qualitative data is collected to the highest standard.

Education, Training and Experience
• Maters in Social Sciences (Sociology, Anthropology)
• A valid drivers licence
• Significant experience in conducting qualitative research
• Self-motivated
• Pro-active and able to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to lead interviews, focus groups discussions and participant observation.
• Proficient in MS Office
• Writing skills
• Good communication and negotiation skills
• Confident, assertive and creative.
• Confident, assertive and creative.
• Flexible and open to change in accommodating others

Key performance areas
• Conduct in depth interviews, focus groups, and observations
• Coordinate data collection activities
• Collect data according to protocol
• Follow guidelines and SOPS’s
• Participate in meetings to discuss quality of data make necessary changes accordingly
• Review audio files and transcripts to ensure quality of transcriptions
• Clean data sets
• Ensure compliance with data management procedures
• Ensure data is correctly labelled, filed and stored

Only short listed applicants will be contacted. Applicants, who have not been contacted within 2 - 3 weeks of the closing date, should assume that their application has not been successful.
SM Placements is an equal opportunity employer.