Job Opportunities at Kenya Medical Research – KEMRI

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct nutritional assessment, Counselling and support for study participants as per study protocol
• Should be able to conduct home visits for follow up dietary assessments to be done at household level as per the study protocol
• Discussing nutrition and eating habits with participants and Monitor progress
• Perform project level planning, monitoring and evaluation of the nutritional activities
• Plan and coordinate dietary assessment for participants plus other study data collection as per study protocol
• Ensure smooth implementation according to ethical guidelines, management and supervision of the study protocol procedures by providing technical Nutritional support to study team.
• Participate in develop Standard Operating Procedures for the study procedures then plan and conduct protocol specific trainings to the study team.
• Guide data team on data collection instrument choices and review of data collection CRFs for appropriateness to protocol procedures.
• Maintain regular liaison with Section lead, Principal Investigator and other collaborators including planning expert meetings discussions for the project.
• Provide periodic reports to section head and study Principal Investigator
• Any other duty as assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Description

Requirement Type

• Bachelors of Science in Food Science and Nutrition; Food Nutrition and dietetics or any other relevant qualification from a recognized institution
• Trained in Integrated management of acute malnutrition (IMAM)
• Trained in Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN)

Key Responsibilities:

• Organizing and supervising the implementation of all field activities
• Work with Research Administrator to ensure adherence to study deliverables time points and support the submission of periodic reports on project status
• Developing and designing local training and capacity building of project staff in collaboration with the study coordinator
• Liaising with relevant county and sub-county health management teams, MOH departmental heads, opinion leaders and other stakeholders
• Drafting, editing and preparing correspondence, reports and other project related materials
• Supporting quality assurance/quality control processes for the study data collection procedures
• Translate study tools and documents from English into local language as necessary.

Description

Requirement Type

• Bachelor Degree in Social science or a health related discipline; Public Health, Nursing, Clinical Medicine, Community Health from a recognized institution
• Good English, Kiswahili and Luo both spoken and written
• Be trained in Good Clinical Practice
• Be willing to reside in the study site
• Have strong written and spoken communication skills