Researcher: Adolescents
ASAP

A Healthcare providing Clinical Care to HIV positive adults, children and adolescents is currently looking for a dynamic and driven Researcher in the Adolescents programme to be based in Johannesburg

To design and implement research projects, analyse data and support publication of scientific articles, as part of a project to develop services for Adolescent living with HIV.

Education, Training and Experience
• Masters’ degree in an appropriate discipline (Epidemiology or related degree)
• Registration with a professional council where appropriate
• Minimum of 3-5 years relevant working experience in a public health or related field
• Demonstrated publication record.
• Demonstrated experience with data analysis software (E.g. STATA) and interested in working on writing of reports and manuscripts

Key performance areas
• Develop research protocols
• Obtain approval from relevant ethics and other regulatory bodies
• Write, review and/or approve SOPs
• Train the project team and other relevant staff.
• Supervise fieldwork (data collection, interviews etc.)
• Ensure quality data management
• Monitor progress of research projects
• Write ongoing progress reports as per project reporting requirements
• Conduct data analysis according to agreed data analysis plan
• Write up results report
• Write or contribute to peer reviewed publications (2 per year)
• Stay abreast with relevant research findings
• Collaborate with other investigators on related studies
• Write or contribute to conference presentations
• Disseminate research findings internally including presentations at research days

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.
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