Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title :
Oncology Research Manager
Department:
Oncology
Grade :
4A
Location:
Burera site
Reports to :
Director of Research and Training
Positions Reporting to:
Oncology coordinators, data collectors
Organizational Profile
PIH ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE
Partners In Health (PIH), headquartered in Boston, MA, is an internationally recognized non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. Through its service delivery, training, advocacy, and research, PIH works globally to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need and to serve as an antidote to despair. PIH programs have worked in Haiti, Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, Russia, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Burundi, Kazakhstan, the Dominican Republic, and Boston.
In 2005, PIH and its Rwandan sister organization, Inshuti Mu Buzima (IMB), began working in partnership with the government of Rwanda to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic afflicting the population and to comprehensively strengthen the public health system in rural, underserved districts in Rwanda. Today, PIH supports delivery of comprehensive integrated non-communicable disease services in three rural districts of Rwanda, including cancer care. Cancer care is predominantly based at the flagship Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence (BCCOE), which was inaugurated in June 2012 and has since provided care to thousands of patients, with services ranging from cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
The Oncology Research Manager in this position will support all oncology research related projects that will be assigned to him/her.
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SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Plan, coordinate and execute research projects within the oncology program.
- Develop research protocols, study procedures and data collection tools together with the projects’ PIs and the PIH team.
- Ensure that research milestones are attained as planned
- Monitor and control expenses within allotted budget.
- Ensure timely data collection and analysis
- Supervise the oncology research coordinators and data collectors to ensure collection of high quality data
- Collaborate with oncology clinicians and programmatic team to clarify unclear data
- Respond to data quality control and data cleaning queries
- Maintain data security per study protocols
- Prepare and submit research progress or completion reports
- Present findings to management and other dissemination