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RESEARCH OFFICER Job at Rakai Health Sciences Program
Rakai Health Sciences Program
Job Description
The Social & Behavioral Sciences Research Officer plays an integral role within the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at the Rakai Health Sciences Program, actively contributing to impactful research that improves community health and wellbeing. We are looking for passionate, driven, and detail-oriented recent graduates who are eager to build a career in qualitative research and possess excellent English communication skills.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- To participate in ongoing mobilization and sensitization about Social & Behavioral Sciences (SBS) research activities within the study communities
- To ensure that all research instruments are prepared and taken to the field.
- To work with the Head of Section (HOS), fellow staff and community mobilizers to identify research study participants and to schedule with them when and where to hold interviews or discussions.
- To conduct all data collection, timely transcription and handling using appropriate, ethical, and sound qualitative research techniques and according to the developed research protocols and SOPs.
- To maintain regular contact with HOS and to pass on completed transcripts to him/her
- To bring to attention of HOS any problems that are encountered in the field
- To review transcripts and make corrections on the script or/and to discuss with him/her any problems identified in his/her work. This may necessitate revisiting the research participants
- To participate in developing, preparing and /or fine tuning research instruments for field work
- To participate in training for new and ongoing qualitative research studies.
- To participate in qualitative research data analysis, with appropriate support from study investigators.
- To keep proper custody of program property like computers/ laptops, recorders etc.
- To attend to any other duties as assigned by the immediate HOD from time to time.
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