| Job Summary | |
| Position: | Research Officer – Nutritionist (1 post) |
| Reports To: | Project Leader/Study coordinator |
| Work Station: |
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Dar es Salaam |
| Apply By: | 30th May 2025 |
Institute Overview
Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is a leading research organization in Africa with a strong track record in developing, testing and validating innovations for health. Driven by a core strategic mandate for research, training and services, the Institute’s work now spans a wide spectrum, covering biomedical and ecological sciences, intervention studies, health-systems research, service delivery and policy translation.
Position Summary
Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) seeks a qualified Nutritionist who will be based in Dar es Salaam at the study office at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) and will serve as a contact person for dietary data collection, review, coding and processing. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring overall quality of the data.
Duties and Responsibilities
- To participate in a clinical research study as per research protocol, GCP, SOPs, etc.
- To ensure the protection, rights, safety, and well-being of the study participant.
- S/he will be responsible for training research nurses and research assistants on dietary data collection.
- Review all dietary data collection forms upon arrival from the study sites.
- Conduct coding of dietary recall forms ready for entry.
- Work with the data entry team to ensure timely and correct entry of the coded dietary recall data.
- To ensure all study-related forms are properly and accurately filled and data is entered daily according to the standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Communicate with other study staff regularly at scheduled meetings and actively participate in all meetings.
- Maintain appropriate working relationships between the hospital staff and IHI at large.
- Undertake any other tasks that the supervisor shall reasonably require from time to time.
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Qualification and Experience
- Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition.
- Prior experience working in dietary data coding in clinical research.