Aga Khan University, chartered in 1983 as Pakistan's first private international university, is committed to the provision of education, research and health care of international standard relevant to Pakistan and the region.

The Outreach and Research Programme of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health has nine community-based field sites across Pakistan (including five in Karachi) and focuses on research for the betterment of women and child health. The Department has a Nutritional Research Laboratory as well as an Infectious Disease Research Laboratory that caters to the needs of its research projects. It has well-acclaimed work to its credit both at the national and international level.

The Gavi project’s primary goal is to generate important data on the impact of typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) in reducing the burden of typhoid and drug resistance among typhoid cases in Pakistan by establishing surveillance network for typhoid in collaboration with large laboratory networks and hospitals across Pakistan. In addition, rapid screening analysis to measure the impact of TCV against culture confirmed S.Typhi among children, when the vaccine is administered during a catch-up campaign, to children 9 months-15 years of age will also be measured. The study will be conducted in private and public sector hospitals and laboratory networks of Sindh and Punjab.

This is a short-term contractual position.

You will be responsible for:

• independently conducting interviews and jotting down detailed notes on interviews and observational visits
• effectively managing field work processes to ensure efficiency 
• facilitating meetings among the research team 
• training new staff in research, interviewing skills and proper data collection processes 
• visiting different households in the communities to ensure successful completion of data collection in their areas including quality control
• liaising with admin regarding logistics for field work
• developing and conducting regular trainings of research staff
• providing supervision and support to research staff liaising with their respected supervisors
• raising wider community awareness on child health related issues based on project guidelines
• ensuring field implementation of project related SOPs and guidelines as defined in the research project
• preparing and presenting weekly project related activity reports.