Research Associate (Statistician), Paediatrics & Child Health MC
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Job Summary
Introduction
The Outreach and Research Programme of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health has ten community-based field sites across Pakistan (including four in Karachi) and focuses on research for betterment of women and child health. The Department has a Nutritional Research Laboratory as well as an Infectious Disease Research Laboratory that cater to the needs of its research projects. It has well-acclaimed work to its credit both at the national and international level.
As an equal opportunity employer AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty staff trainees volunteers beneficiaries wider communities and other stakeholders with whom it works including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.
This is a grant funded contractual position
Responsibilities
you will be responsible to:
- supervise the statistical aspects of research projects including study design protocol development sample size estimation subject randomization statistical analyses and presentation of data
- supervise and conduct statistical analyses and interpret results of analyses for research studies
- Maintain provide consistent analytical approaches and reporting formats within and across studies
- understand and use advance statistical software packages. As needed writes programs to select retrieve manipulate edit and analyze data
- review all project protocols and data collection tools to ensure that collected data meet projects needs statistical and scientific requirements
- provide support for data presentation for publication of research studies results
- train and support the ongoing development of analytic competencies among team of data analysts/data supervisors
- assist data management staff in the design of study databases. As needed reviews study database structures and data management project conventions. Reviews and writes error checking specifications for projects as per need
- ensures the integrity of research projects data and provide supervision for data quality assurance
- keep close liaison with project supervisors principal investigators and departmental head
Requirement
You should have:
- Bachelors or Masters in Statistics
- minimum 1-2 years of experience in the field of Research & public health will be an added advantage
- excellent command on SPSS/Stata and other Statistical Packages
- proficiency in spread sheets and power point presentation
- sound knowledge of databases and programming
- strong verbal and written communication skills
Required Experience:
IC
