Research Associate-Karachi

IRD Global Health & Research Organization, Singapore                            POSITION CODE: HRD-PC/TD-382               

 Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Epidemiology, Public Health, Public Policy or related field        

Experience:

• Experience in research, project evaluation, impact evaluation or M&E (strongly preferred)
• Experience working in public health/epidemiology strongly preferred
• Computer Literacy and proficiency in Microsoft Office is required
• Fluency in English/Urdu (required) /Sindhi (oral and written) will be strongly preferred).
• Knowledge and experience in using statistical analysis tools, including Excel (required), STATA (required) and R(optional) for data cleaning and analysis

Skills:

• Organization and planning skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills as well as written and oral communication skills

Jobs Description:

• Providing support to on-ground project staff including training on established project SOPs and conducting debriefing sessions to resolve challenges and queries.
• Conducting data monitoring, troubleshooting, cleaning and analysis.
• Maintaining and managing documents, forms/surveys (record keeping) and reports.
• Filling out IRB (Internal Review Board) forms for obtaining ethical approvals.
• Preparing reports for internal and external documentation of project activities.
• Conducting field visits as and when needed to assess the challenges and facilitate implementation.
• Attend in-person and virtual meetings to report progress and challenges.
• Ability to travel within Sindh (up to 50%)