Sepsis Project Coordinator || Biomedical Research and Training Institute (BRTI)

DUE: 07 OCT 2024

Neotree – Sepsis Project Coordinator (Zimbabwe)
|We are excited to announce that BRTI is seeking a motivated individual to join our team in the role of Sepsis Project Coordinator in Harare. This role supports the Neotree digital health project, focusing on developing a sepsis diagnostic algorithm using data science and machine learning to improve neonatal care.

Duration: 12 months (with potential to extend)
Deadline: 7th October 2024, 22:00 CAT

Candidates should have a background in Epidemiology, Public Health, or related fields, and experience in project coordination. Fluency in English and Shona is essential.

About
The mission of BRTI is to promote the health and quality of life of the people of Africa
through research and training in biomedicine. The institute emphasises the need to establish
and maintain the highest levels of quality, professionalism, ethical standards, and efficiency
in its activities. BRTI is implementing a Wellcome Trust funded project with Imperial College
London, the Neotree charity, and University College London (UCL), in the UK. Neotree is an
innovative digital learning health system, developed in partnership with, and for, nurses and
doctors, empowering them to deliver high-quality neonatal care via real-time data capture,
clinical decision support, training and education, and data visualisation within a single
platform. We are looking for a highly motivated individual to support the project in
Zimbabwe, occupying the following position:

Position: Neotree Sepsis Project Coordinator
Duration: 12 months (with the opportunity to extend)
Location: Harare
Deadline to apply: Monday 7th October, 22:00 CAT

Neotree
Worldwide, 2.3 million babies younger than 28 days die every year, with one million dying on
their day of birth. Seventy percent of these deaths are preventable by implementing
low-cost solutions effectively. Digital innovations have the potential to accelerate health
systems strengthening and support the delivery of evidence-based newborn interventions
across the care continuum. Since 2014, we have been co-developing our intervention
(Neotree), with healthcare workers in Bangladesh, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and the UK. To date,
Neotree has been used to improve the care of over 38,000 babies, by more than 1,200
healthcare professionals in five hospitals across Malawi and Zimbabwe. We can save over
half a million babies’ lives, and improve the care of over 27 million babies, every year if the
Neotree is adopted by Ministries of Health across low-income countries
Sepsis is a crucial cause of death and disability in newborns, but tests for the disease are
slow and not widely available. We aim to use Neotree data to develop a machine-learning
enabled risk stratification tool for sepsis to identify which newborns most need antibiotics
and which can safely be discharged.

Job Summary
We are looking for a dynamic, passionate, and skilled project coordinator to support and
deliver on the development of the sepsis diagnostic algorithm within Neotree. As well as
working with clinical staff across implementation sites, the sepsis lead will work with the
project team at BRTI, UCL, and the Neotree Charity, and the software development team in
Zimbabwe and South Africa to support the development and refinement of the Neotree
platform and its inbuilt diagnostic algorithm. There will be opportunities to work with world
leading machine-learning experts and develop skills in data science alongside project
management.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinate the sepsis project within Neotree, including working with the finance
  team on budget management and reporting
• Work with the project lead (Dr Felicity Fitzgerald) and supporting data scientists at
  Imperial College London and University College London on the development of the
  diagnostic algorithm, reviewing data quality
• Support the acquisition of high quality outcome data including laboratory results and
  28 day outcome data and the integration of these data into the Neotree dataset
• Work with the wider Neotree team including the implementation team and software
  development team to support high quality data collection across sites
• Work with the social science and clinical teams to ensure that the developed
  algorithm is family focused and highly usable for clinicians
• Work with the wider project team and other stakeholders to ensure the digital
  algorithm developed fulfils governance and legal requirements
• Coordination of Neotree sepsis staff and associates across the Zimbabwean sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Epidemiology or Public Health, or a technical field,
  such as statistics, health informatics, software engineering, or similar [Essential]
• Computer literate and skills in common data management and analysis packages
  such as Excel, Metabase, or similar [Essential]

Experience

• Experience in research coordination including obtaining ethical approvals, budget
  management, protocol training and stakeholder engagement [Essential]
• Background in health, health services/implementation or health research [Desirable]
• Skills and experience in working with tech-based platforms, including using software
  for data analysis, data dashboards etc. [Desirable]
• Experience with working with routine healthcare data for monitoring, evaluation and
  research [Desirable]
• Implementation and management of technical projects and solutions in low-resource
  urban and rural sites [Desirable]

Personal characteristics [Essential]

• Dynamic, passionate, and dedicated individual
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities in a professional
  manner
• Ability to work with a diverse, multi-disciplinary team, across geographies.
• Fluency in English and Shona, and ability to communicate effectively
• Exceptional organisation skills and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously/
  prioritise effectively
• Ability to learn new digital and technological skills and enthusiasm for e-health
• Enthusiasm and willingness to learn and accept feedback
• Accurate, honest, dependable and flexible
• Excellent communicator willing to admit their limitations quickly and need for
  assistance to rapidly move the project forward
• Detail orientated, with an ability to think through all the different implications of
  decisions

TO APPLY
Qualified candidates should complete this application form by 7th October 2024, 22:00 CAT.
For more details refer to the advert attached and to apply, please visit this link.
If you have any further questions, please email [email protected] (specify in the email
subject, the job position you are applying for)
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted