{"id":100428,"date":"2026-07-10T19:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/uncategorized\/senior-research-scientist-turkana-county-kakuma-kalobeyei\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T19:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:41:17","slug":"senior-research-scientist-turkana-county-kakuma-kalobeyei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/jobs\/turkana\/senior-research-scientist-turkana-county-kakuma-kalobeyei\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Research Scientist &#8211; Turkana County (Kakuma\/Kalobeyei)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\/\", \"@type\": \"JobPosting\", \"title\": \"Senior Research Scientist - Turkana County (Kakuma\/Kalobeyei)\", \"description\": \"Key Responsibilities:\\nLead the overall planning, coordination, and implementation of the SHIELD Study, developing work plans, timelines, milestones, and resource allocation strategies to ensure delivery of project objectives.\\nCoordinate multidisciplinary research teams comprising climate scientists, epidemiologists, entomologists, public health scientists, and field teams, ensuring effective communication, integration of study components, and high-quality project execution.\\nOversee qualitative research activities, including protocol and tool development, field team training, data collection, management, coding, thematic analysis, and integration of qualitative findings with epidemiological, entomological, and climate data to generate actionable evidence.\\nLead stakeholder and community engagement by coordinating collaboration with refugee and host communities, county health officials, community leaders, humanitarian partners, and other stakeholders, while incorporating feedback to strengthen project relevance and impact.\\nMonitor project performance and ensure compliance with study milestones, ethical approvals, regulatory requirements, institutional policies, and funder guidelines, while maintaining comprehensive project documentation.\\nManage project operations, resources, and risks, including financial, human, logistical, scientific, operational, security, and climate-related risks, ensuring efficient use of resources and timely implementation.\\nLead capacity strengthening and knowledge dissemination through technical meetings, stakeholder consultations, dissemination workshops, policy dialogues, and training of research and field teams in qualitative methods, climate-health integration, and community-engaged research.\\nPerform any other related duties assigned by the Principal Investigator or supervising authority in support of the project's objectives.\\nVacancy Requirements:\\nMaster\u2019s Degree in Public Health, Environmental Science or a health-related field.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory\\nAt least seven 7 years of research coordination experience in project management, including a minimum of one 1 year of active experience in climate-related research\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory\\nModerate to advanced level analytical skills and use of at least one qualitative analysis package, e.g. N-Vivo, MAXQDA, QDA Miner\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory\\nExperience working in collaboration with multiple agencies\/partners or Donors and Ministry of Health and Environment\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory\\nExcellent communication skills including oral presentations of scientific information\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory\\nStrong supervisory and management skill\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory\\nCommunication skills\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory\\nInterpersonal skills\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory\\nTeam player\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory\", \"datePosted\": \"2026-07-10\", \"hiringOrganization\": {\"@type\": \"Organization\", \"name\": \"Kenya Medical Research - KEMRI\"}, \"jobLocation\": {\"@type\": \"Place\", \"address\": {\"@type\": \"PostalAddress\", \"addressLocality\": \"Turkana\", \"addressCountry\": \"KE\"}}, \"directApply\": true, \"validThrough\": \"2026-07-29T23:59:59\", \"employmentType\": \"CONTRACTOR\"}<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Company:<\/strong> Kenya Medical Research &#8211; KEMRI<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Turkana<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Type:<\/strong> Contract<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apply Before:<\/strong> 2026-07-29<\/p>\n<h3>Job Description<\/h3>\n<p>Key Responsibilities:<br \/>Lead the overall planning, coordination, and implementation of the SHIELD Study, developing work plans, timelines, milestones, and resource allocation strategies to ensure delivery of project objectives.<br \/>Coordinate multidisciplinary research teams comprising climate scientists, epidemiologists, entomologists, public health scientists, and field teams, ensuring effective communication, integration of study components, and high-quality project execution.<br \/>Oversee qualitative research activities, including protocol and tool development, field team training, data collection, management, coding, thematic analysis, and integration of qualitative findings with epidemiological, entomological, and climate data to generate actionable evidence.<br \/>Lead stakeholder and community engagement by coordinating collaboration with refugee and host communities, county health officials, community leaders, humanitarian partners, and other stakeholders, while incorporating feedback to strengthen project relevance and impact.<br \/>Monitor project performance and ensure compliance with study milestones, ethical approvals, regulatory requirements, institutional policies, and funder guidelines, while maintaining comprehensive project documentation.<br \/>Manage project operations, resources, and risks, including financial, human, logistical, scientific, operational, security, and climate-related risks, ensuring efficient use of resources and timely implementation.<br \/>Lead capacity strengthening and knowledge dissemination through technical meetings, stakeholder consultations, dissemination workshops, policy dialogues, and training of research and field teams in qualitative methods, climate-health integration, and community-engaged research.<br \/>Perform any other related duties assigned by the Principal Investigator or supervising authority in support of the project&#8217;s objectives.<br \/>Vacancy Requirements:<br \/>Master\u2019s Degree in Public Health, Environmental Science or a health-related field.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory<br \/>At least seven 7 years of research coordination experience in project management, including a minimum of one 1 year of active experience in climate-related research\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory<br \/>Moderate to advanced level analytical skills and use of at least one qualitative analysis package, e.g. N-Vivo, MAXQDA, QDA Miner\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory<br \/>Experience working in collaboration with multiple agencies\/partners or Donors and Ministry of Health and Environment\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory<br \/>Excellent communication skills including oral presentations of scientific information\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory<br \/>Strong supervisory and management skill\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory<br \/>Communication skills\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory<br \/>Interpersonal skills\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory<br \/>Team player\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mandatory<\/p>\n<h3>How to Apply<\/h3>\n<p>Interested and qualified? Go to Kenya Medical Research &#8211; KEMRI on erecruitment.kemri.go.ke to apply<br \/>Build your CV for free. Download in different templates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjobmag.co.ke\/apply-now\/1275041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:10px 20px;background:#2271b1;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;border-radius:4px;\">Apply Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Source: MyJobMag<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!-- job-expiry: 2026-07-29 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company: Kenya Medical Research &#8211; KEMRI Location: Turkana Job Type: Contract Apply Before: 2026-07-29 Job Description Key Responsibilities:Lead the overall planning, coordination, and implementation of the SHIELD Study, developing work plans, timelines, milestones, and resource allocation strategies to ensure delivery of project objectives.Coordinate multidisciplinary research teams comprising climate scientists, epidemiologists, entomologists, public health scientists, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1408,1561],"tags":[1443,1413,1637,1412],"class_list":["post-100428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","category-turkana","tag-contract","tag-job-listing","tag-kenya-medical-research-kemri","tag-myjobmag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}