Head of Research

LAMB is a well-run major mission Hospital, Community Health Development, Training and Research organization. Services cover more than 6.3 million people in North West Bangladesh.

There are is a vacancy for the following contractual position based at LAMB Hospital, Parbatipur, Dinajpur.

Job Summary: The position is responsible for providing technical leadership in developing frameworks, plans, and indicators to capture performance results and ensure effective, accurate, and timely monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of all activities. The role also includes designing and conducting research and writing reports.

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS - RESEARCH (MIS-R)

Project/Department data

• Reviews/ revises & ensures timeliness and accuracy of data collection forms in cooperation with Project Managers and department heads as required for management, government and donor reporting.
• Ensure timely and accurate routine reports to departments, donors and the GoB.
• Ensure program compliance of all established standards, guidelines and processes.
• Validated data by field visit, Focus Group Discussion, Interview, sample test and document review etc.
• Develop Monitoring tools aligning with each of the outcomes and outputs of project mentioned in the proposal and document on monthly, semi-annual and annual basis
• Assist research team or external consultants to conduct baseline, midterm and end line evaluations
• Assist Department Directors to disseminate lesson learn and best practices from quality programs
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual monitoring reports and submit to management on time.

Research projects

• Oversee and/or conduct targeted evaluations and operations research, including design, data collection, management and analysis.
• Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures including routine data quality audits and that these are routinely carried out during the project lifecycle
• Be involved in proposal writing, budget development, data collection/entry/analysis oversight and report writing for projects with ‘lead’ responsibility.
• Take lead in sourcing research projects tied to areas where LAMB would like to advocate for change through publications in peer reviews journals or presenting at national/international forums.
• Take on responsibility for new Research in consultation with their director as appropriate to skills and interests
• Population based maternal and child health outcomes linking with wealth ranking and reporting outcomes by wealth quintile.
• Assists programs leads in providing baseline KAP and other surveys to meet donor reporting requirements against indicators.

Personnel

• Supervision of MIS-R staff as mentioned in the organizational structure.
• Appropriate feedback to MIS-R staff on daily tasks; data quality; time management.
• Works with MIS-R Programme Managers and designated MIS-R officers to ensure functioning hospital databases and reporting systems
• Help with orientation and evaluation of new MIS-R & CHDP M&E staff.
• Interact with finance manager; grants and compliance manager (program and finance) as appropriate for research project management
• Ensures capacity development for community health workers and working with managers in developing log frames.

MIS Admin

• Attends Departmental PMT meetings
• Participate in quality assurance activities which may arise.
• Assists with development of job descriptions and department policies as appropriate

Planning

• Assist ED office planning team as assign/request
• Assist CHDP Director and Program Managers for monitoring and evaluation planning         

Training

• Attend and present (as per the roster) at MIS-R in-services