Summary
Date Posted: Monday, November 14, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Contract
Position Number: MUWRP/06/11/2022
Position Title: Quality Assurance/Quality Control Officer (5) Position
Position Location: Mukono General Hospital (3) & Kampala (2)-Please specify location preference location
Contract Tenure: 6 months with a possibility of extension subject to availability of funding.


Position Summary:
The candidate will be responsible for maintaining QC/QA activities for the Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP), Clinical trial at the Mukono General Hospital study site.


Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Work with all site study staff and the PI to ensure that study activities and processes are conducted as per protocol and related SOPs
• Ensure that CRFs are correctly, accurately and promptly filled by the clinic research team before presentation for data entry
• Evaluate and respond to quality events, incidents, queries, and complaints as they arise in real time
• Keep up to date with all related quality and research ethics legislation and compliance issues
• To work with the Regulatory office to review (QC) participant-facing materials and translations prior to IRB submissions (both English and translated material)
• Establish and document internal quality assurance and quality control processes/procedures.
• Utilize guidance documents (SOPs, MOPs, research protocol, etc.), local and international standards, or consensus standards to support the research teams to conduct all research procedures as expected.
• Conduct the day to day quality control reviews and promptly communicate the findings to the appropriate stakeholders
• Communicate any critical compliance risks noted from these activities to the Principle Investigator and or study coordinator and the study team.
• Prepare weekly QC/QA updates for discussion in the weekly research meetings.
• Identify and coordinate the resolution of data queries as they happen
• Determine relevant data quality training requirements and assist with staff training
• Work with the study team to ensure quality data for all conducted research and address any queries or data anomalies with relevant staff.
• Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor/designee.

Required Education, Knowledge and experience:
• Diploma in Clinical Medicine or Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery or a health-related field.
• Minimum of 3 years relevant experience in Quality Control/Quality Assurance in a research setting.
• Good writing and presentation skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and self-motivated/driven.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Have a fair working knowledge of quality assurance and control procedures, regulations as they relate to medical research.
• Possesses the ability to train all levels of staff in Quality Control/Assurance


Skills and Specifications
• Ability to work in teams, motivate, influence data staff and manage time and projects.
• Organizational, planning, research and problem-solving skills.
• Must be detail-oriented and understand the importance and benefits of data quality.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to present findings and recommendations
• Ability to work as a part of a team and interact with data users and managers
• Strong statistical and numerical ability
• Possess technical skills necessary to work with computer systems such as knowledge of office software such as Microsoft word, excel and access.


Supervisory Controls: The individual will serve under the immediate supervision of the QA/QC Coordinator.

Physical ability: Ability to professionally communicate in writing and verbally or other means as deemed appropriate.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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