Job Title: Associate 

Team: Research and Innovations 

Mission statement for the role: To uphold our grassroots and data-driven organizational culture and position us to impactfully contribute to global mental health research, we need to ensure systematic and efficient research processes. The primary focus of this role is to support, and at times oversee, the planning and execution of organizational research projects. A secondary focus is to support the dissemination of our findings through conference presentations, media publications, workshops, and/or webinars.  

Business case for the role: Systematic and efficient research processes enable us to stay ahead of the curve of an ever-changing field of mental health research. Gold-standard research output spotlights us as leaders in mental health research in sub-Saharan Africa and enables us to write our own story, which has previously been both under- and mis- represented. 

How this role contributes to the company’s mission: This role contributes to our mission by assisting to provide evidence of the efficacy of our model in helping youths to thrive while also highlighting gaps and lessons to be learned.  

Roles and responsibilities: 

• Assist to obtain necessary regulatory approvals not limited to ethical approval, research permits, and signed county commissioner/governor letters. 
• Support the submission of clinical trial pre-registration and protocol paper, where appropriate. 
• Support the development of research materials such as questionnaires and study protocols. 
• Assist with quantitative and/or qualitative data collection, including but not limited to focus group assessments. 
• Conduct trainings on various topics including data collection and fidelity rating. 
• Collaborate with other teams to schedule and coordinate research activities; this includes mapping out participant’s locations and facilitating logistics. 
• Oversee and/or assist with questionnaire design, printing, and scanning. 
• Assist data entry, cleaning, storage, and analysis. 
• Supporting the writing and publishing of manuscripts. 
• Contribute to achieving key performance indicators such as low rates of participant attrition. 
• Assist in organizing and/or presenting research findings to external stakeholders such as in meetings and research conferences. 
• Respond to emails and other communication relating to research projects. 
• Participate in virtual and in-person staff meetings and professional development opportunities. 
• Monitor the progress of each research project and report to the Research Manager. 
• Perform other duties as required.