Senior Clinical Data Manager Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) Employment Opportunity

Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is among the leading health research institutes in Africa with about 600 employees.

IHI is an affiliate of the National Institute for the Medical Research council of Tanzania and a winner of Prince of Astoria Award in 2008.

The mission of IHI is to develop and sustain a district-based health research and resource centre capable of generating new knowledge and relevant information for public health policy and actions.

Due to expansion in its operations, IHI invites applications from interested, suitable and qualified Tanzanians to fill the following position:

Senior Clinical Data Manager
(1 Post - Bagamoyo)

The Senior Clinical Data Manager shall be responsible for building databases, cleaning and maintaining the data from all sources within the site.

S/he provides an overall coordination and direction of data management activities at the site.

S/he works closely with Site data managers by providing technical assistance (building capacity).

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Creating SOPs and generating and maintaining databases for specific clinical trials
• Overseeing databases, by having data clerks typing in the source data from the study patients' source documents into an electronic CRF or directly into the clinical trial database in a doubled manner
• Programming of automated checks - if there are inconsistencies in the data, the system should generate queries the investigators will have to answer to, and the incorrect data in the database will be corrected with an explanation.
• Maintaining the automated calculation system for the parasite densities, based on first and second (and sometimes third) reader in the laboratory as well as generating correct census and cohort (TB cohort, etc) databases and update them regularly (besides clinical trial databases)
• Extracting lists of patients according to specific criteria from the census or cohorts and validating newly generated database system for a clinical trial, before starting to use it.
• Identify errors in the database and proactively rectify them with the right person (lab, investigators, and field people), training and overseeing other data managers in adherence to GCP in handling of clinical data.

Qualification and Work Experience

• Holder of MSc in Biomedical degree, Public Health or related discipline
• At least 5 years experience in Clinical Data Management (Building databases, Cleaning and management of data, AE and Conmeds coding, Lab data imports and merging etc.) – Clinical trial site experience would be a huge advantage;
• Have knowledge of Data Management Systems (DMSys) OR OpenClinica AND ICH/GCP guidelines.
• Should have good communication skills (with study staff members in the laboratory, investigators, study nurses, field staff...);

Remuneration

• Attractive and competitive remuneration package will be offered to the right candidate.

How to Apply

Send your applications with detailed curriculum vitae (CVs) showing contact address, e-mail, telephone numbers and photocopies of academic and professional certificates to:

The Human Resource Manager,
Ifakara Health Institute,
463 Kiko Street, Mikocheni,
P.O.Box 78373,
Dar es Salaam.

Or email all requirements to rkabegi @ ihi.or.tz.

For more information regarding this vacancy please visit our website at http://www.ihi.or.tz.

The deadline for receiving applications is 16th Feb 2010.

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