AFCRN Project Administrator

• Direct the day-to-day project related activities by working closely with the Principal Investigator. 
• Review and adapt Addis Ababa University’s and consortium member institutions’ relevant financial, human resource, and procurement guidelines and policies to facilitate the smooth implementation of the project. 
• Train or organize training for project staff to orient them on guidelines and operational manuals that are relevant to their respective responsibilities.
• Assists the Principal Investigator in the preparation of reports to donors and partners including regular reports to institutions in the consortium.
•  Organize regular meetings with member institutions and scientific events at different milestones of the project and document the deliberations. 
• Supports the Principal Investigator in liaising with relevant seminar speakers and trainers including making the necessary arrangements for the successful implementation of the desired scientific events.
• Work with the communication expert to see the development of a website as a platform to communicate the progress of the research to stakeholders and institutions in the consortium.
• By working with the communication expert, disseminate preliminary and final research findings through e.g., mailing lists, social media platforms and websites. 
• Oversees the conduct of internal and external audits.
• Supervises the production of monthly finance management reports by the finance officer for the executive team.
• Supports the project affiliated faculty members and research staff in the development of new grant proposals. 
• Oversee the recruitment, orientation, training, deployment, and management of full-time and parttime research staff including timely payment of their salaries and other payments.
• Provide need based administrative support to the School of Public Health finance and administrative team.

Number of available Position: 1

Project title: Network for Oncology Research in Sub-Saharan Africa (NORA)

Qualification and experience:

• Advanced degree in Public Health (MPH with a minimum of 5 years’ experience or a PhD with a solid background in managing, preferably, non-communicable disease research projects).

Competencies and personal qualities:

• Committed to achieving the project goals.
• Able to work independently as a part of a team to implement the project.
• Ability and willingness to work as a member of a team, with people of different cultural, and religious backgrounds, and maintaining impartiality and objectivity.
• Experience working in research consortiums or multi-country collaborative research projects. 
• Experience in projects planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Extensive experience in developing scientific research proposals and drafting scientific and operational reports. 
• Knowledge of the key disease related and health system challenges in the effort to control non-communicable diseases. 
• Working knowledge of generic health system operations and that of the Ethiopian health system. 
• Proven analytical skills and ability to think strategically.
• Fluency in English – written and verbal.
• Excellent communication skill both in local languages and English and experience in communicating key data in reports and presentations.
• Ample exposure providing training to staff on operational matters related with research projects. 
• Optimal exposure chairing programmatic and scientific meetings and documenting the proceedings. 
• Competency in statistical packages for quantitative data analysis (STATA, SPSS, EpiData) experience in using software for qualitative data analysis such as Atlas.ti. is a plus.
•  Adept at using all Microsoft Office applications. 
• Past or present experience working with Addis Ababa university is desirable.