Research Assistants at Jhpiego (Nasarawa and Abuja)

Jhpiego, an Affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, is a global leader in improving healthcare services for women and their families.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Research Assistant

Job ID: 2023-4951
Locations: Abuja and Nasarawa
Employment Status: Full-Time
Category: International Positions

Overview

• Antenatal/Postnatal Care Research Collective (ARC) project is conducting a study to explore the effect of Group Antenatal Care on Women’s Place of Childbirth in Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The study is funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• The primary objective of the study is to determine where G-ANC participants (i.e., women who attended at least one meeting) gave birth, disaggregated by place of childbirth (e.g., the same health facility where they attended G-ANC, another facility, home) and survey method (e.g., phone, in-person).
• Explorative objectives include:
  • To identify factors associated with each place of childbirth (e.g., the same health facility where they attended G-ANC, another facility, home), stratified by survey method (e.g. phone, in-person)
  • To explore potential associations between greater intervention exposure (i.e., number of attended sessions) and childbirth in the same G-ANC facility, stratified by survey method (e.g., phone, in-person)

Responsibilities

• Identify eligible G-ANC cohorts in the facility’s G-ANC attendance record using the EDD ranges relevant to the data collection period.
• Select a specific number of G-ANC participants based on inclusion criteria from eligible cohorts based on weighted proportions across facilities, provided by the study team
• Enter the eligible women’s names, cohort numbers, phone numbers and total meeting attendance data (i.e., confirming at least 1) into the REDCap app on tablets
• Call each G-ANC participant up to three times
• Conduct phone survey for consenting women whose mobile numbers are reachable using tablets provided
• Conduct in-person interviews for eligible women whose mobile numbers are unreachable by tracing women’s contact address from facility attendance register, map addresses and visit women in their homes to administer survey using tablets provided
• Selected research assistants will contact IDI participants by phone, based on information gathered during the surveys, to request the women come for a IDI on a specific day and time.
• Ahead of each interview, ensure supplies (copies of the informed consent documents; a tape-recorder that is fully charged and or with batteries; a notebook and pen); and the transport reimbursement to compensate participants for the transport costs that they may have had to attend the IDI
• Take written consent, begin recording, and conduct interview in a private place
• Conduct in-depth interviews with study participants
• Report of activity and issues identified submitted to project team

Required Qualifications

• BSc or HND
• Experience conducting quantitative and qualitative interviews
• Must be able to speak local languages (Hausa) and English.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and within a team
• Ability to use online data collection tools
• Good team player.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.