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Job Title:   Research Assistants (Several Data Collection Jobs)   

Organisation: Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) with support from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation established the Digital Health Payment Initiative and Research in Africa DHPI-R) project whose goal is to identify how, and under what circumstances digital worker payments can support effective campaign delivery in sub-Saharan Africa.

DHPI-R sub granted Afrislum Uganda and the Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie (CERRHUD), Benin and are conducting a research study “Exploring implementation experiences to adapt Digital payments to Community Health Worker: A case study of Benin and Uganda”.  The purpose of this study is to get information about digital payments so as to formulate a practical way of establishing as the main way of paying frontline workers in Uganda. Findings from this study will inform the design of a prototype system for effective, gender-sensitive, and sustainable digital payment systems for Community Health Workers in resource-constrained settings such as Benin and Uganda.

Job Summary:  This study will use Qualitative methodology and will be conducted among community health worker, payers of Community Health Workers, manager of a programs paying Community Health Workers, supervisors of programs that use Community Health Workers to do community work and digital service provider.  We therefore seek to recruit a team of Research Assistants with experience in conducting Quantitative research to conduct the data collection activities in Uganda.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform field data collection and management activities, administer informed consent, conduct and complete interviews in accordance with the study protocol
• Answer questions that the respondents may ask before or during the course of data collection
• Collect data and participate in data management processes including validation to ensure quality data collection
• Conduct Key informant interview and in-depth for the study.
• Transcribe qualitative research interviews and participate in qualitative data analysis, where applicable
• Provide the Team Leader with daily updates including interviews completed, and any other important information about assigned participants
• Any other duties assigned by the data collection team leaders or the Principal Investigator

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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities, Statistics, Public Health, or any other related discipline
• Proficiency in both spoken and written English and either Luganda or Runyankore.
• Prior experience in conducting face to face interviews
• Prior experience in collecting qualitative data collection methods
• Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills and ability to follow study specific procedures and guidelines reliably.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, under stringent deadlines
• Possession of a Certificate in Good conduct OR a letter of recommendation from one reference

Period of contract: Short term (not more than one month).

How to Apply:

All interested persons should send their updated 2 pager CVs stating two referees and their contacts to at recruitmentdhpchws@gmail.com Please indicate the study name DHP and your name in the subject part of your email. Cover letter, CV and all other attachments in one pdf Document.

NB: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Deadline: 15th June 2023 by 5.00 pm

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