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Senior Manager, Center for Patient Safety

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Medical College

Location

Karachi, Pakistan

Introduction

The Clinical and Translational Research Incubator (CITRIC) at Medical College, Aga Khan University, has been established to transform research at the Medical College by creating a centralized space to incubate clinical and translational research projects, enabling them to become large extramurally funded programmes with significant national and international impact. The projects at CITRIC will have high impact on the populations that AKU serves, will be of highest peer-reviewed reproducible quality, will provide access to research resources and will be contextually aligned with the local needs. CITRIC will also house the Dean’s Clinical Research Fellowship (DCRF) programme along with various research centres including but not limited to, the Centre for Trauma and Emergencies and Centre for Patient Safety, Centre for Global Surgical Care. 

The Centre for Patient Safety, CITRIC at Aga Khan University, Medical College, will be a new multi-disciplinary research, teaching, learning, and advocacy Centre with a mandate to investigate the conditions affecting patient care and promote systemic patient safety, identify medical errors, and help develop and implement strategies to prevent patient harm in developing countries.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Director, Centre for Patient Safety, you will be responsible for:
  • developing and implementing the strategies and work plans to ensure that the Centre’s goals and objectives are met at every level
  • providing strategic oversight and guidance in proposal development and actualization
  • conceptualizing the overall framework for the Centre 
  • providing overall administrative and operational support to the Centre
  • identifying and resolving the challenges to carry out the mission of the Center, in consultation with Director
  • maintaining close relationships with key stakeholders to ensure successful implementation including donor reporting, financial monitoring, and management of research projects and staff.

Requirements

You should have:
  • Master’s degree in relevant field from a well-reputed local or international university
  • five to seven years’ of related work and comparable experience at a reputable and relevant organization
  • strong research background/training and analytic skills, ideally in mixed method approaches 
  • excellent organizational, project management, planning, and problem-solving skills
  • excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Urdu
  • strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with a variety of stakeholders
  • the ability to demonstrate sound judgment in managing challenging and sensitive situations.

To Apply

​Interested candidates should send their detailed CVs by email to human.resources@aku.edu and mark position applied for in the subject line.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Applications should be submitted latest by March 18, 2020