Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage health services, implementation, and evaluation research projects.
- Develop study protocols, research questions, analysis plans, data collection instruments, and evaluation frameworks using appropriate quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches.
- Plan and oversee data collection, which may include surveys, interviews, focus group discussions, observations, routine clinical or operational data, and other relevant sources.
- Manage, clean, analyse, integrate, and interpret quantitative and qualitative data using suitable analytical methods and software.
- Conduct literature reviews, evidence syntheses, programme evaluations, and implementation analyses to address research and service needs.
- Translate findings into clear, actionable insights for research reports, manuscripts, policy briefs, posters, presentations, and service improvement initiatives.
- Ensure research activities comply with ethics requirements, approved protocols, data management standards, and institutional policies.
- Manage project plans, timelines, budgets where applicable, documentation, risks, approvals, and deliverables to support timely and high-quality project execution.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary research teams and engage clinicians, operational partners, patients, caregivers, policymakers, and other stakeholders throughout the research lifecycle.
- Support grant applications and facilitate dissemination by preparing manuscripts for publication and presenting findings at internal meetings and conferences.
Requirements:
- Master's or PhD in Public Health, Health Services Research, Implementation Science, or a related field.
- Strong training or hands-on experience in quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods research and programme evaluation.
- Demonstrated ability to design and conduct research independently, select appropriate analytical approaches, and interpret complex findings.
- Experience with relevant analytical software, such as R, Stata, SPSS, NVivo, or equivalent tools, would be an advantage.
- Strong project management skills, including planning and coordinating timelines, stakeholders, documentation, risks, approvals, and research deliverables.
- Strong scientific writing, communication, presentation, and organisational skills.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and within multidisciplinary teams, and to manage multiple concurrent priorities.
- Experience in public healthcare, health services research, implementation science, programme evaluation, or evaluation of complex interventions would be advantageous.
- Evidence of academic publications, research reports, policy briefs, or grant-writing experience would be an advantage.