Trial Manager Full Time

About the Organisation:

Sangath is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation committed to improving health across the life span by empowering existing community resources to provide appropriate physical, psychological and social therapies. Its primary focus areas include child development, adolescent health, adult health and chronic diseases.

About the Project:

The goal of project is to see if we can enhance treatment outcomes for patients with moderate to severe depression by personalizing allocation to one of the two treatments; additionally, we aim to identify those patients who are unlikely to respond to either treatment and should be referred to specialist care. To achieve this, we will use machine learning to develop a precision treatment rule (PTR) based on a wide range of baseline moderators which are feasible to assess in routine care settings. Our primary hypothesis is that those patients randomized by chance to their optimal intervention as indicated by the PTR will be more likely to remit and recover than those who are not. Moreover, we hypothesize that using our PTR to select the optimal treatment for each individual patient will prove to be more cost-effective than leaving things to chance. We also plan to explore secondary questions, such as whether we can enhance our mediation tests by including the PTR in interactions with our purported mediators (moderated mediation). Further, we plan to explore whether we can enhance the prescriptive utility of our PTR via genotyping our sample and calculating polygenic risk scores based on very large sample Genome-Wide Association studies.

If you are passionate and looking for an opportunity to work with a dynamic team on research in mental health involving health systems, working with an international set of collaborators, delving into data science as well as machine learning, and using implementation research tools, send in your application.

This project is funded by the US National Institute of Mental Health, with collaborators from leading organizations including Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, the Broad Institute, AIIMS Bhopal, etc.

Position: 1 (Full-Time)

Job Title: Trial Manager

Project: Improving Outcomes in Depression in Primary Care in a Low Resource Setting

Duration: Initial contract will be for one year (and will be extended depending on performance and funding). The study duration is four years.

Job profile:

• To manage the research grant and promote and ensure compliance with good practice in relation to the conduct of research, the ethics policy, and other relevant policies.

• Be involved in scientific discussions with the Principal Investigators, other investigators and the funding organization.

• Provide support to the Investigators in drafting and finalizing study protocol, SOPs,submitting IRB applications, and progress reports.

• Provide leadership to meet study targets and milestones (ensure timely and accurate submission to IRBs, sponsors and master agreements).

• Execute project management processes and methodologies to ensure the study is delivered on-time and within the budget, while adhering to high quality standards.

• Responsible for assembling study plans, team and work assignments, directing and monitoring work efforts on a daily basis, identifying resource needs, performing quality review, and escalating functional, quality and timeline issues appropriately.

• Responsible for tracking study documentation through signature/approval processes.

• Serve a critical role as liaison, facilitate meetings between project stakeholders and leadership, and complete and maintain professional documentation for projects and deliverables, and develop SOPs as needed.

• Monitor budget utilisation and inform quarterly projections on the basis of project requirements.

• Establish and maintain clear communication and effective working relationships with key external stakeholders, including government and non-government agencies, local stakeholders, health professionals and collaborators.

• Coordinate meetings with project team and collaborators.

• Lead and provide mentoring to the research team in writing manuscripts and academi coutputs for dissemination of project findings.

Essential requirements:

• Doctorate (PhD) degree in Epidemiology, Public Health, Global Health or closely related field AND at least 5 years of relevant experience

OR

Post-graduate degree in Public health, Mental health, Epidemiology, Global health or closely related field AND at least 10 years of relevant experience

• Minimum two peer reviewed academic publications as first author.

• Proficient skills in software for quantitative analysis (STATA, R)

• Experience in team management, ideally in a large research study environment.

• Willingness to be based on, or relocate to Bhopal (position is Bhopal based).

Desirable characteristics:

• Experience in managing Randomized Controlled Trials (including development of protocols, data collection, data analysis and manuscript writing)

• Experience of working in Public Health systems such as PHCs/CHCs/District Hospitals.

Remuneration: As per Sangath salary scales

How to apply:

Send your application via google form https://forms.gle/rowmV8PPnPGbGCje9 with the following documents

• Curriculum Vitae.

• 1 Scientific writing sample (published or unpublished).

• Statement of Purpose (Max 300 words) outlining why you are suited for the role.

• Cover letter with the following information-salary expectations, and willingness to relocate to Bhopal.

Sangath is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation,age, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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