Early Post-Doctoral Researcher - Health Systems/Implementation Scientist - Nairobi at Kenya Medical Research - KEMRI

Kenya Medical Research - KEMRI

  • Nairobi
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 8 days ago
Key Responsibilities:
  • Operationalise implementation science frameworks within a multi-country health systems evaluation, ensuring methodological coherence across adoption, implementation, and maintenance domains.
  • Design, specify, and maintain indicator sets and measurement plans for implementation strength, including formal definition, weighting, and validation of facility-level Implementation Strength components across health system domains.
  • Lead the quantitative development and refinement of the implementation index
  • Design and conduct quantitative process evaluations linking implementation strength and fidelity to coverage, intermediate outcomes, and system performance.
  • Oversee the execution, scoring, and analytic integration of Health Facility Readiness Assessments (HFRA), ensuring standardisation across sites and alignment with system-readiness constructs.
  • Coordinate and analyse Quality Improvement (QI) event logs, audits, and commodity and stock tracking data, translating operational disruptions and implementation adaptations into analytically tractable variables.
  • Contribute to the development of reproducible analytic pipelines (script-based workflows), including data cleaning, indicator construction, model estimation, and documentation.
  • Generate high-frequency implementation performance dashboards and quantitative learning products to support adaptive programme management.
  • Lead the synthesis of quantitative findings into learning briefs, technical reports, and peer-reviewed manuscripts focused on implementation effectiveness and health system performance.
  • Engage with implementation partners and national stakeholders to contextualise quantitative findings, support interpretation of heterogeneity, and inform adoption and maintenance analyses.
Vacancy Requirements:
  • PhD (or near completion) in Implementation Science/Health Systems/Global Health. Mandatory
  • Experience applying RE AIM or similar frameworks and managing multi-site process evaluations. Mandatory
  • Programme measurement, quantitative analysis, QI methods, stakeholder facilitation, excellent writing. Mandatory
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