Study Coordinator

The Aurum Institute is a proudly African, health impact organization dedicated to researching, supporting, and implementing innovative, integrated approaches to global health.

As a Study Coordinator, you are expected to coordinate both the qualitative and quantitative components of the implementation research study.

**YOUR JOB WILL BE**:
Responsible for study coordination and management through:

- Oversight and monitoring of screening, enrolment, research data collection and participant retention and clinical management.
- To ensure that recruitment, screening, enrolment and retention targets are met, and systems are in place and implemented to meet agreed targets.
- Ensure management of all assigned staff to ensure adherence to protocols and SOP’s.
- Ensure timely, accurate, complete, collection of data from research participants.
- Ensuring all activities are conducted according to GCP standards and the study protocol.
- To oversee quality control of study documents.
- Liaise with stakeholders at study site and research team.
- Liaise with data management team to identify, address and resolve queries timeously.

**Staff management**
- Ensure staff have all the appropriate support and materials to complete their work.
- Supervise and support the research team in carrying out project duties.

**Provide weekly reports to Principal Investigator on**:

- Project status e.g. Screening and enrolment numbers or numbers of interviews conducted.
- Quality assurance and control, and corrective actions.
- Stock levels of equipment, consumables and documents at each site.

**General Administration**:

- Address and ensure error corrections are attended to.
- Ensure maintenance of study equipment
- Maintain inventory for all study equipment, consumables and documents, and order of stock for the study site.
- Responsible for preparing files and documents for Audits/Monitoring, in coordination with the Project Manager.
- Assist in writing and distribution of minutes.

**YOU MUST HAVE**:
**Knowledge of**:

- Intermediate personal computer skills including electronic mail, record keeping, routine database activity, word processing, and excel spread sheet.
- Efficient in Microsoft office
- Quantitative and qualitative epidemiological research methods
- GCP training

**Work Experience**:

- Experience in clinical research, primarily in the field of health research, preferably on HIV/COVID
- At least 3 years’ experience managing people and/or projects
- At least 5 years’ experience in /clinical research - Network / DAIDs protocols

**Minimum requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or Diploma in Nursing.
- Strong quality and data management understanding is essential.
- Valid GCP certificate
- Valid driver’s license
- Own car

**Advantageous Requirements**:

- Proactive, deadline driven and able to work under pressure.
- Ability to muli-task duties across different studies
- Source development / SOP experience

**Skills required**:

- Good communication, presentation and report writing skills.
- Ability to solve practical problems.
- Ability to pay close attention to detail
- Good management and interpersonal skills.
- Proficient in written and spoken English and fluency in local languages.
- Ability to work independently and in a team.

**Closing date: 06 December 2023**

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