| Description: |
Position
The Information System Coordinator is the head of the Information System department. He/She will work with a team of 10 people: an IT manager, data managers, a records officer, data entry clerks and a clinical registrar. He/She is under the hierarchical position of the Director of the Research Base in Mbarara and is part of the management team.
Principal responsibilities
- Participation to the overall coordination of the Research Base With the Director of the Research Base, the Laborator
- Coordinator, the Medical Coordinator, the Logistics Coordinator and the Financial and Human Resources Coordinator :
- Participate in management meetings .
- Contribute to the annual strategic review .
- Participate in coordination meetings with study representatives.
In charge of System and Network Administration of the research base Under responsibility of the System Administrator based in Paris headquarter :
- Participate to the implementation, operation, maintenance and security of the local area network of the research base.
- Participate to the implementation, operation, maintenance and security of scientific IT equipment and accessories.
- Participate to the process for backup operations and disaster recovery of scientific data on backup media so as to guarantee the integrity of archives and online files for scientific users
- Contribute to the definition of an information system master plan for frequency of hardware and software upgrades and replacement.
- Contribute to the technology watch in system and network administration.
Responsibility for the data management activities of the research base
- Ensure all data management activities are GCP compliant.
- Contribute to the development of study-specific case report forms (CRF).
- Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to standardize data management procedures, and ensure their compliance.
- Develop study-specific data management plans, including the data validation plan, error verification and data cleaning.
- Develop study-specific databases and data entry templates.
- Ensure timely data entry and double data entry validation, if needed.
- Under request, produce reports on status of data collection, data entry and data clarification forms generated through data cleaning.
- Ensure the appropriate specifications for data management softwares.
- Ensure scientific staff training on new data management softwares as needed.
Supervision of record management and archiving
- Ensure the development and implementation of an Archive and Records management policy.
- Ensure the records are kept in adequate conditions.
- Ensure the development and maintenance of a logbook to trace all records movement.
- Ensure record management and storage are compliant with GCP standards.
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| Requirements: |
Candidate requirements
Mandatory
- Bachelor degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or Biostatistics
- Experience in computer information systems and network maintenance and support
- Experience in data management in clinical research
- Experience in using relational databases in SQL and in database modelling
- Experience in programme language such as PHP, Java, Python, C++
- Working knowledge of EpiData
- Experience in team supervision
- Strong interest in clinical research
- Previous professional experience in developing countries
- Fluent in English (written and oral)
- Good communication and negotiation skills
Assets/Plus
- Knowledge of GCP
- Intermediate knowledge in biostatistics, use of statistical software such as STATA.
Conditions
- Volunteer MSF/Epicentre status 1 year contract starting mid-september 2012
- Place: Mbarara, UGANDA
- Deadline of application: 15 august 2012
How to apply:
Please send your CV and a motivation letter by e-mail to Nathalie Guérineau online with ref number indicated .
For additional information, please contact the Director of the research base in Mbarara: yap.boum@epicentre.msf.org |