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Job Tite/Designation
Early Post-Doctoral Researcher
Key Responsibilities:
- •Work as the lead scientists in Kenya within the Health Systems Research Ethics Department in partnership with Oxford including to help develop, conduct and report on a specific set of research objectives. This is likely to include overseeing and managing a budget, conducting literature reviews, writing specific ethics submissions, developing / refining mixed methods data collection tools, coordinating and conducting fieldwork, supervising research assistants, analysing data and writing first-author publications.
- •Bring theoretical and practical expertise in topics such as empirical ethics, moral distress, power-relations in health and research systems, organisational and team functioning, health system resilience, and implementing and evaluating complex interventions.
- •Contribute to building capacity in empirical ethics and health systems research in the programme through: building a small team of staff in Kenya working on the project, supervising masters and phd level researchers, and contributing to organising training and skills-sharing meetings
- •Engage with relevant stakeholders in Kenya (including KWTRP managers, senior researchers, ethics committee members, science advisors, health system managers, frontline staff, community representatives), and internationally (including with a frontline staff network, scientific advisors and funders).
- •Communicate research goals and findings to different audiences through presentations, talks, publications and other written outputs including as appropriate for websites and social media platforms
- •Ensure the ethical conduct of research and foster an inclusive and supportive research culture