Specialist (Data Management Unit), Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health
Entity: Aga Khan University
Location: Karachi
Introduction to the Aga Khan University:
Aga Khan University, chartered in 1983 as Pakistan's first private international university, is committed to the provision of education, research and health care of international standard relevant to Pakistan and the region. The affiliated Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) has well-equipped investigative services and provides state-of-the-art clinical facilities. AKUH is the first hospital in Pakistan to be awarded the prestigious Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) for practicing the highest internationally-recognized healthcare standards.
The Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health aims to support the introduction, piloting and scaling-up of high quality, high impact interventions to improve maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (MNCAH) in Pakistan by harnessing the potential of both the public and the private sector, coupled with the introduction of women and girls’ empowerment interventions.
The overall goal of the IGNIT3 LHW Nutrition, Hygiene, and Heat Adaptation Training Trial will be to determine whether training LHWs in Sindh province to deliver an enhanced integrated package of nutrition, hygiene, and heat adaptation interventions to women of reproductive age (WRA) will improve birth, child growth, and other outcomes more as compared to training LHWs to deliver the standard package of interventions.
This study is situated within the greater context of strengthening the existing LHW program and is intended to inform the effectiveness and value of integrating multi-sectoral content into routine LHW training packages. The evidence generated will also provide information on the feasibility, acceptability, and scalability of the integrated climate-sensitive training package.
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.
Job Role / Responsibilities:
The incumbent will be responsible to develop, design and testing of native Android applications. Collaborate with development and design teams to create new features and improve the user experience.
Specific responsibilities will be:
- Supervise the statistical aspects of research projects, including study design, protocol development, sample size estimation, subject randomization;
- supervise and conduct statistical analyses and interpret results of analyses for research studies. Maintain consistent analytical approaches and reporting formats within and across studies;
- review all project protocols and data collection tools to ensure that collected data meet project’s needs, statistical and scientific requirements;
- provides support for data presentation for publication of research studies results;
- keep close liaison with project supervisors, principal investigators and departmental head;
- ensures the integrity of research projects data and provide supervision for data quality assurance;
- assist data management staff in the design of study databases. As needed, review study database structures and data management project conventions;
- provide Support in statistical workshops/seminars;
- complete understanding of software application development lifecycle;
- national and international travelling as per the requirement
Eligibility Criteria / Requirements:
- M.Sc. in Statistics;
- 3-5 Years of work;
- excellent Command on STATA/R/SPSS and other Statistical Packages;
- proficient in Spreadsheets and power point presentation;
- sound knowledge of Data Analysis & Databases design;
strong verbal and written communication skills;
Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.