SUMMARY:
An Assistant Research Coordinator (12-Month Contract) vacancy is available at our Client, Wits Health Consortium, in Port Elizabeth - Eastern Cape.
POSITION INFO:
Background
Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited (“WHC“) is a wholly-owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health Sciences. WHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research and other activities necessary to support its academic objectives. In addition, WHC offers a range of products and services to the Academics conducting these activities in order to assist with the management thereof.
Main purpose of the job
- To assist with the coordination of the activities of the Research Ethics Committee and the Innovative Research and Higher Degrees Committee in the Western Deanery (Region)
- To provide administrative support to the Research component and the Associate Dean of the Central Deanery
- To coordinate and support research projects conducted in the Western Deanery
Location
Key performance areas
- Organize local courses project management, grant writing, science communication, research ethics and building a research profile – for Early Career Researchers
- Organize clinical staff training on proper data collection, management, and study design to leverage their clinical expertise to assist with the conduct of research in their local clinical setting
- Disseminate Request for Application (RFA) for grants aimed at faculty and investigators
- Coordinate and support the functioning of the Research Innovation &Higher Degrees Committee (RIHDC) and the Research Ethics Committee (REC)
- Develop a sponsor-centered research monitoring and evaluation program for active research projects funded through the above-mentioned grant mechanism
- Track research and publication outputs from sponsored grants and the faculty
- Facilitate collaborations between researchers at WSU and other local and international researchers
- Help facilitate ethics submission of proposals to the RIHDC and REC at WSU
- Facilitate linkage to library services
- Facilitate linkage to statistical support for data analysis services
- Provide administrative support to principal investigators for the submission of grant applications, abstract submissions to scientific meetings, and peer-review publications
- Coordinate the procurement of equipment and the health resource needs for local projects
- Develop and strengthen a research partnership within the National Health Laboratory Service for the facilitation of laboratory-based needs in future research
- Support international collaborations and local researchers by supporting access and procurement of research materials prior to the initiation of the research project
- Monitor timeframes and scope of activities as circumstances dictate
- Support the Preparation of budget and budget justification
- Monitor and evaluate progress and spending and prepare relevant reports
- Write study-specific documents
- Coordinate and serve as a point of contact between sites and sponsors (including face-to-face meetings with sponsors, e-mails, teleconferences, video conferencing, negotiations with suppliers, etc.)
- Support adherence to protocol at sites
Required minimum education and training
- Bachelor’s degree in related field
Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities
- Good administrative skills together with working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Proactive and adaptable
- Able to work under pressure and adhere to deadlines
- Self-motivated, able to work independently and as part of a team. Experience working in a research environment
- Ordered and systematic with strict compliance to protocols
- Tactful, respectful and maintain confidentiality
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Preferably some experience in project management
- Working overtime
- Communicate effectively with management, clients, and sponsors
- Work as part of a team to ensure good service delivery
Required minimum work experience
- Minimum 2 years experience in a Research environment
TO APPLY
- Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV - Please Apply Online
- Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
- The closing date for all applications is 30 August 2021.
- Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
- Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful.
- In accordance with our Employment Equity goals and plan, preference will be given to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.
Please note that AJ PERSONNEL is only responsible for advertising the advertisement on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium.
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