The Umeed-e-Nau (UeN) initiative of the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Women and Child Health aims to support the introduction, scale-up and further piloting of high quality and high impact interventions to improve Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MNCAH) in Pakistan by harnessing the potential of both public and private sectors, coupled with introduction of women and girls empowerment interventions. UeN has two major components; one is to introduce proven effective MNCAH interventions at scale in 8 districts and the second is to generate evidence through innovative approaches to improve MNCAH while included in the public health programme in Pakistan.

You will be responsible to supervise and monitor the research activities including data collection as well as maintain necessary records, create and sustain liaison with the relevant stakeholders for the smooth implementation of all necessary activities of the project. Specific responsibilities include to:

• assist the supervisor in the development of research instruments for the projects according to their objectives
• ensure validity of data collected from the field
• independently conduct interviews and prepare detailed notes for it
• ensure proper data collection as per the project guidelines
• follow and ensure field implementation of project related SOPs and guidelines, as defined in the research project
• assist supervisors in carrying out day-to-day research work
• prepare and present periodic project related activity reports
• keep track and follow-up with research teams on progress reports of the project 
• provide assistance in the preparation of periodic research and progress reports
• ensure quality control by random checks and field monitoring.