Jobs at Medical Research Council Unit (MRC)

Essential requirements:

• MBBS or equivalent primary medical qualification.
• Part 2 FWACP, equivalent medical qualification or relevant post-graduate degree with significant experience in Clinical Trials.
• Previous work on clinical trials of vaccines or drugs following GCP requirements.
• Thorough understanding of GCP and relevant clinical trials regulations (e.g. EMA, FDA etc) and ability to apply and interpret them appropriately to the setting in The Gambia.
• Practical experience of health research in developing countries.
• Experience in managing staff.
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• High degree of attention to detail
• Enthusiastic and committed team player and team motivator.
• Commitment to working in a multi-disciplinary team.
• A flexible and well-organised approach to work and an ability to meet deadlines.
• Willingness to be on-call and work outside the normal working hours.
• Excellent IT skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, Access).

Desirable:

• Record of publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Ability to work on databases and statistical packages.
• Experience of cold-chain management.
• Experience in recruiting expectant mothers to clinical trials.

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Essential requirements:

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
• FWACOG/MRCOG part 1 or equivalent.
• Significant ongoing clinical obstetric experience including the ability to undertake and oversee dating scans to establish gestational age.
• The ability to manage obstetric emergencies and pregnancy related complications.
• Experience in managing staff.
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• A flexible and well-organised approach to work and an ability to meet deadlines.
• Attentiveness to detail.
• Willingness to be on-call and work outside the normal working hours.

Desirable:

• Part 2 FWACOG/MRCOG.
• Postgraduate qualification (Masters/Doctoral level).
• Record of publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Experience providing obstetric care in a comparable setting.
• Previous experience in conducting clinical trials according to ICH-GCP.
• Excellent IT skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, Access).

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Essential requirements:

• University Degree in Computer Science or considerable relevant experience.
• Experience of programming and database system analysis and design.
• Experience of database design and data normalization.
• Familiar with different RDBMS such as MS Access, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL etc.
• Knowledge of writing stored procedures, triggers and database functions.
• Knowledge of client-server application design and development.
• Data access using DAO, ADO, ADO.NET, ODBC.

Desirable:

• Experience of using VBA, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C# and .NET framework.
• An ability to troubleshoot and resolve database application related problems.
• Experience of working as a team leader at least for a small group.
• Knowledge/experience of agile and waterfall methodology for design and development.
• Experience/knowledge of design and development of mobile application for data collection.
• Knowledge of EAV data model and applications such as OpenClinica.
• Experience/Knowledge of distributed database application design.
• Experience/knowledge of using SharePoint/
• Some knowledge of installing and resolving issues of open source database applications.
• Some knowledge of Java.