KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE E-RECRUITMENT PORTAL
Data Manager - Migori or Kisumu
- Advertised Date: 11/21/24
- Closing Date: 12/11/24 5:00:00 PM
- Applications: 0
Job Tite/Designation
Data Manager - Migori or Kisumu
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop data entry forms and surveys using REDCap to ensure efficient and accurate data collection.
- Implement branching logic, skip patterns, and validation checks within REDCap to optimize data quality.
- Evaluating study data for protocol compliance
- Develop and implement data management plans to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and integrity.
- Oversee the entire data life cycle, including data collection, cleaning, validation and storage, to ensure the accuracy and completeness of study data.
- Supervising verification of data, check and clean raw data as soon as it is uploaded or entered by field staff
- Collaborate with study team members to establish and enforce data management protocols and standards.
- Establish and maintain a secure and organized database for longitudinal cohort study data.
- Regularly update and back up the database, ensuring data security and compliance with relevant regulations.
- Creating and maintaining SOPs related to the management project data
- Performing data query management, to identify and address discrepancies or errors promptly.
- Monitoring study data to ensure the quality and completeness of the data submitted
- Generating Quality Control reports for review and correction, as well as a variety of other reports as required.
- Implement data quality assurance protocols to maintain the highest standards of data integrity.
- Perform weekly summary reports for quality monitoring
- Perform statistical analyses to derive meaningful insights from the longitudinal data.
- Generate reports and visualizations to communicate findings to the research team.
- Creating and managing data dictionaries, including updating and checking stored information related to the study, updating datasets and associated data dictionaries, as well as maintaining a record of data and variable updates (version control)
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of data management processes, including data dictionaries, coding procedures, and variable definitions and updates.
Vacancy Requirements:
# | Description. | Requirement Type |
---|---|---|
1 | i.Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Epidemiology, Biostatistics or Applied Statistics or any other relevant field from a recognized institution | Mandatory |
2 | ii.At least two (2) years of relevant research experience is an added advantage. | Added Advantage |
3 | Strong statistical analysis skills using tools such as SAS, STATA, R, Python, or similar. | Mandatory |
4 | Proficient in REDCap programming and customization. | Mandatory |
5 | High level of competency in using Microsoft, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint | Mandatory |
6 | vi.Experience with data management tools and software e.g. Microsoft SQL server, Redcap, SAS or R, | Mandatory |
7 | i.Strong analytical ability, planning, and organizational skills | Mandatory |
8 | ii.Excellent verbal and written communication skills. | Mandatory |
9 | iii.Ability to lead a team | Mandatory |
10 | iv.Analytical and report writing skills | Mandatory |
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Job Type
Contract
No. of Vacancies
1
Job Grade
KMR 04
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Contact Email Address
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