Senior Research Assistant

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research

Dhaka, Bangladesh

icddr,b is a Bangladesh-based international health research institute that strives to solve key public health problems through high-quality scientific research and innovation. As a values-based organization icddr,b encourages women and people with disabilities.

The Position holder will work in a project for Climate Change Impacts on Health and Population in Bangladesh: a study of Vulnerable Coastal Districts study under the Climate Change and Health of the Health System and Population Studies Division.

Key Responsibilities:

The Senior Research Assistant will report to Research Investigator and will be responsible for planning, designing, data analyzing, report writing, manuscript development, and implementation of research projects. S/he will be involved in–

The specific areas of responsibilities are detailed below:

  • Develop questionnaire in coordination with PI for household survey
  • Develop data collection tool using KOBO toolbox
  • Analyse and interpret Data 
  • Develop guideline/ user manual for tab-based data entry
  • Train enumerators for data collection
  • Review literature 
  • Prepare reports and manuscript in consultation with PI.

Required qualification and experience:

  • Masters in Statistics/ Applied Statistics;
  • Relevant experience of 3 years on similar works including experience of working with R, STATA, SPSS, SurveyCTO and KOBO toolbox
  • Previous experience of questionnaire development, data collection, data cleaning, and data analysis will have an added advantage.

Source: https://career.icddrb.org/vacancy-preview/11496