Senior Researcher

7 days ago


Johannesburg, South Africa University of the Witwatersrand Full time

**Purposes of Job**:
**The successful incumbent will report to the Head of Department of Anaesthesiology in the School of Clinical Medicine and will be responsible for the **development of a research unit**, initiating, supporting and operationalising of research project(s) within the Department.

**Key tasks**:
**Development of a functional funded research unit - priority**:

- Delivery of the Department and the School research agenda, in particular to promote the MMED program for the registrars in the Department
- Develop and foster relationships with institutional funders
- Perform research management on projects in liaison with other stakeholders
- Support project coordinators and research teams and assist/mentor supervisors in the Department with the required Faculty processes of supervising postgraduate research
- Assist the dissemination of research projects' progress reports
- Monitor and keep a database of research publications and presentations
- Organize regular writing retreats and training on research
- Organize and coordinate research protocol assessor group meetings and act as an assessor
- Facilitate the examination process of the research component of the clinical MMed/Masters qualification
- Personally supervise postgraduate students, especially Masters and PhD
- Assist students with publications of articles
- Available as an examiner on final research reports or dissertations in the SOCM
- Conducting desktop (or secondary) research: reviews and secondary data analysis
- Personally engage in primary research relevant to the Department's research portfolio.
- Publish accredited research and present scholarly papers at conferences
- Perform general research administrative duties as required

**Requirements**:

- **Health professional degree and registration with HPCSA**:

- **PhD degree, preferably in** **Biostatistics**:

- **Evidence of research Experience**:

- Evidence of success at research grant writing
- Evidence of published research, at least 10 ISI/DHET journal publications, of which at least the majority be first or senior author,
- Experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative data analysis
- Experience coordinating large research projects
- Experience presenting at local and / or international conferences
- Experience working in a research environment
- Experience supervising postgraduate students, at least at the Masters' degree level
- Experience developing and maintaining successful research collaborations will be an advantage
- Prior teaching experience and supervision of students

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