County Clinical Coordinator.pdf
- Nairobi
- Permanent
- Full-time
Medicine and Therapeutics at the Faculty of Health Sciences.
Purpose of the position
The County Clinical Coordinators will be responsible for recruitment, follow-up, retention and
monitoring of study participants in accordance with the ICH GCP standards, local ethical and
regulatory approval requirements, the study protocol, and the standard operating procedures
(SOPs) for the Ndovu Study. The holder of this position will provide oversight of site staff
participating in the Study.
Job Title: County Clinical Coordinators
Duty Station: Kenyatta National Hospital and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral
Hospital
Reporting to: Study Physician
Job Description
1. Working with the Study team to prepare sites for Study implementation.
2. Supporting sites to maintain Study site files including approvals, protocols and SOPs,
registers and tools, and source documents.
3. Participating in site staff engagement, training, and performance management
4. Assist site staff in conducting Study procedures including informed consenting,
recruitment, clinical service provision, adherence counselling, and documentation of
source documents.
5. Ensuring appropriate eliciting, management, and reporting adverse events including
serious adverse events.
6. Reviewing site performance and working with sites to address implementation challenges
7. Reviewing Study data and working with site teams to address data queries
8. Addressing the clinic and laboratory interphase including ensuring appropriate sample
collection and shipment, timely results transmission, proper interpretation of results, and
Page 1 of 2working with the laboratory teams to ensure adherence to protocol-defined turn-around
times
9. Ensuring participants' safety and rights are maintained
10. Ensuring safe and confidential custody of source documents and other study documents
11. Any other duties assigned by the supervisor
Job Specifications
i.
Diploma in Clinical Medicine and registered to practice with the Clinical Officers Council
ii.
Minimum of 3 years' experience with direct clinical care in HIV
iii.
Experience in clinical research, participation in clinical trials will be an added advantage
iv.
MUST have a current Certificate of Good Clinical Practice
v.
MUST have a current certificate in Human Subject Protection
vi.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
vii.
Keen attention to detail
viii.
Evidence of intermediate level IT skills
ix.
Certification in the National Advanced HIV Clinical Course is an added advantage
Terms of appointment
The appointment is on contractual terms of one year, renewable based on performance and
mutual agreement.
Notes1. Applicants should email their application letters, certified copies of certificates and curriculum
vitae (CV) giving details of their qualification, experience and three (3) referees indicating
their telephone contacts and e-mail contacts;
2. Applications and related documents should be forwarded addressed to the Director, Human
Resource, University of Nairobi;
3. Applicants should state their current designations, salaries and other benefits attached to
those designations;
4. The application letter must bear the reference code indicated in the advertisement;