Ifakara Health Institute Senior Clinical Data Manager (1 Post)

Duty Station: 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.

·         Allocate workload across data clerks / teams and monitor data entry productivity on daily basis

·         Create real-time monitoring interface so that project leaders and PI’s can assess progress in data entry

·         Create macros / routines for dataset export for statistical analysis

·         Negotiate data management agreements with client projects and monitor performance against these agreements

·         Ensure that invoices are raised to projects for all data management tasks performed

·         Be accountable for "profit and loss" of the data management unit

·         Maintain appropriate working relationships between the Data staff and other staff

·         Work together with Statistician to make sure data are at higher quality all the time

·         Developing the strategic and action plans for the Data unit

Qualification and Work Experience

·         Holder of MSc in Biomedical subjects, Public Health or related discipline;

·         At least 3 years experience in Clinical Data Management (Building databases, Cleaning and management of data, data querying, 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, Good skills in SQL query language;

·         Should have good communication skills (with study staff members in the laboratory, investigators, study nurses, field staff...);

·         Excellent in team working;

·         Internal candidates are also encouraged to apply.

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 Avenue, Mikocheni,
P.O.Box 78373,
Dar es Salaam.
E mail: recruitment@ihi.or.tz
Only successful candidates will be called for Interviews.
Deadline : 21^st June 2013.