Research Associate (Statistician), Paediatrics & Child Health -MC at Aga Khan University

Karachi, Punjab, Pakistan -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

23 Jun, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

25 Mar, 26

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Statistical Analysis, Study Design, Protocol Development, Sample Size Estimation, Subject Randomization, Data Presentation, SPSS, Stata, Statistical Software, Data Management, Data Quality Assurance, Programming, Data Retrieval, Data Manipulation, Error Checking

Industry

Hospitals and Health Care

Description

Introduction The Outreach and Research Programme of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health has ten community-based field sites across Pakistan (including four in Karachi) and focuses on research for betterment of women and child health. The Department has a Nutritional Research Laboratory as well as an Infectious Disease Research Laboratory that cater to the needs of its research projects. It has well-acclaimed work to its credit both at the national and international level. 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 Responsibilities you will be responsible to: supervise the statistical aspects of research projects, including study design, protocol development, sample size estimation, subject randomization, statistical analyses, and presentation of data supervise and conduct statistical analyses and interpret results of analyses for research studies Maintain provide consistent analytical approaches and reporting formats within and across studies understand and use advance statistical software packages. As needed, writes programs to select, retrieve, manipulate, edit, and analyze data review all project protocols and data collection tools to ensure that collected data meet project’s needs, statistical and scientific requirements provide support for data presentation for publication of research studies results train and support the ongoing development of analytic competencies among team of data analysts/data supervisors assist data management staff in the design of study databases. As needed, reviews study database structures and data management project conventions. Reviews and writes error checking specifications for projects as per need ensures the integrity of research projects data and provide supervision for data quality assurance keep close liaison with project supervisors, principal investigators and departmental head Requirement You should have: Bachelors or Masters in Statistics minimum 1-2 years of experience in the field of Research & public health will be an added advantage excellent command on SPSS/Stata and other Statistical Packages proficiency in spread sheets and power point presentation sound knowledge of databases and programming strong verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

The associate will supervise the statistical aspects of research projects, including study design, analysis, and data presentation, while maintaining consistent analytical approaches across studies. Responsibilities also include reviewing protocols, training data analysts, and ensuring data integrity through database structure review and error checking specifications.