Flying Multi-country Examine Coordinator (M/F) – Primarily based in an MSF/Epicentre workplace for 9 months – Guinea

Epicentre is a analysis group created by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 1986. Epicentre conducts discipline epidemiology, coaching and analysis actions for MSF interventions. Epicentre conducts analysis and helps MSF’s purpose of proving medical support in areas the place persons are affected by battle, epidemics, disasters, or have poor or non-existent entry to well being care. Our actions for populations in precarious conditions are led from Uganda, Niger, and France, and are performed with MSF and different worldwide analysis companions.

Background

Beneath-diagnosis and under-treatment of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) is a significant public well being downside. In 2022, the World Well being Group has advisable using two built-in remedy choice algorithms (for contexts with and with out radiography) to supply extra structured steerage to major well being care employees assessing youngsters youthful than 10 years with presumptive pulmonary TB. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Epicentre intention to judge the diagnostic efficiency of those algorithms in at the very least 5 nations (Niger, Nigeria, Guinea, South Sudan, Uganda), in addition to their feasibility and acceptability.

Beneath the accountability of the Epicentre Coordinating Principal Investigator (PI) of the research (based mostly in Brussels) and in collaboration with the nation PIs, the multi-country Examine Coordinator will plan, help, and harmonize the implementation and conduct of the “TB Algorithm Pediatric” research within the totally different research nations.

Important Duties and Obligations (Not exhaustive):

• Learn/evaluation the protocol and take part to the event of research operational procedures, research varieties and of coaching supplies.

• Take part within the elaboration and implementation of a piece plan.

• Manage and harmonize the implementation of the research within the discipline (incl. however not restricted to check coordination, coaching, pilot, knowledge assortment, knowledge entry, knowledge administration & monitoring, high quality processes);

• Practice the research employees on the research protocol and procedures together with (however not exhaustive) Ethics and GCP, inclusion and consenting procedures, customary working procedures, strategies of quantitative and qualitative interviews, research case report varieties (CRF), knowledge entry, knowledge high quality processes, knowledge administration and monitoring.

• Accompany the nation PIs for:

  • Guaranteeing that every one authorizations are obtained earlier than the beginning of the research (moral and administrative).
  • Recruiting and managing the native research employees within the discipline.
  • Supervising the process of affected person’s enrolment and knowledgeable consent for participation within the research.
  • Implementing Good Scientific Practices rules, particularly the moral rules.
  • Amassing of high quality knowledge (incl. CRF achievement).
  • Guaranteeing that every one paperwork are current within the Examine web site file and up to date commonly.
  • Organizing the safe group, storage and archiving of the research paperwork (knowledgeable consents, CRF, questionnaires, qualitative interview data and transcripts and many others.).
  • Establish and report protocol deviations to the Epicentre Coordinating Principal Investigator.
  • Outline the assets wanted for the research, put together, and observe the funds.
  • Handle research assets, materials shares, orders and provide in shut collaboration with logistics and the MSF staff.

• Manage and help the visits for monitoring (supervision) the conduct of the research and its compliance with the protocol and with good medical apply.

• Take part in knowledge cleansing, knowledge evaluation and within the drafting of the ultimate research report.

• Collaborate and act as liaison between the nation PIs of the totally different nations, the location research employees, the MSF groups, related stakeholders, and the Coordinating PI.

• Guarantee a daily contact with the Coordinating PI, together with common written reviews on the progress of the research in addition to participation to coordination conferences.

• Be the MSF/Epicentre consultant of the research internally and externally on elements associated to the research.

Required:

• Medical/medical diploma: medical physician, or nurse
• Masters of Epidemiology or Public Well being, or different related diploma with at the very least two years {of professional} expertise in that discipline
• Skilled expertise in MSF undertaking
• Fluent in English (talking, studying, writing) and in French (at the very least talking, studying)
• Working expertise with Phrase and Excel
• Wonderful communication abilities
• Curiosity in analysis on pediatric tuberculosis
• Rigorous, dynamic character and capable of work successfully inside a multi-cultural and multi-lingual staff.

Most well-liked:

• Expertise in pediatrics or tuberculosis (medical, analysis or undertaking administration expertise)

• Expertise in administration of discipline well being analysis, in epidemiology in low- and middle-income nations

• Data of software program for knowledge entry (instance: Redcap)

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  What you’ll get

  Fulltime appointment for 9 months (the length of the contract is versatile and will likely be negotiated in line with the candidate’s profile, starting from 3, 6 or 9 months).

  Place to begin as quickly as potential.

  Work location: Place based mostly in Uganda, in Mbarara (or in an MSF workplace out of the country)

  Remuneration in line with expertise and MSF wage grid