Coordinator III

The S  Coordinator will be responsible for designing, coordinating and implementing S . The S  Coordinator will play an essential role in accelerating the Aurum Clinical Research Division’s (CRD) S  efforts. The S  Coordinator will collaborate with colleagues working on S  issues, product development teams, research partners, external stakeholders, and executive leadership to ensure the timely, high-quality execution of research projects and workplans.

Key responsibilities:

Evidence Generation and Strategy Implementation

• Support implementation of S  projects within the CRD that utilizes existing evidence, or newly generated evidence, to inform R&D and access plans of the needs and behaviours of at-risk populations, healthcare providers, and policymakers.
• Work with research partners and key stakeholders to design and oversee implementation of research studies and maintain a comprehensive and timely understanding of the current landscape, unmet needs, gaps and critical socio-behavioural issues to support product development.
• Support planning and stakeholder consultations to design S  portfolio to answer key social science questions.
• Participate in selected Protocol Teams for clinical and epidemiologic studies where S  questions are included.
• In collaboration with CRD investigators, develop strategic and implementation plans and procedures for S  research studies.

S  Market Insights

• Seek, consolidate, assess and disseminate key insights from research and analyses.
• Utilize qualitative and quantitative research methods and select the optimal mechanism to gather key insights based on S  objectives.
• Monitor the broader landscape of S  projects, together with reporting of progress and metric measures/targets.

Project & Budget Management

• Participate in development of CRD S  scope of work and monitoring/reporting achievement of milestones.
• Support the preparation of funding proposals and work plans for S
  -related activities and prepare updates and presentations for donor reporting.
• Monitor progress in workplans and performance metrics, follow up as needed and flag any persistent deviations for remedial action.
• Draft agendas, pre-read materials, summary presentations and meeting minutes for key meetings, as needed.
• Represent department in drafting and monitoring departmental contributions in organizational scorecard.

Execution

• Guide the team and research partners to support the execution of S  strategy and integration with global access, advocacy, policy, and communications objectives.
• In close collaboration with the investigator/s and other partners, review of protocols, sample plans, research instruments, and assist in IRB submissions.
• Work with teams and collaborating investigators to strengthen internal capabilities for S , including mentorship, training, grant writing, and publications.
• Prepare literature, reports, compelling S  communications and data analytics.
• Represent Aurum CRD externally to showcase leadership in S , and to work with the team in sourcing funding for future research.
• Maintains in-depth knowledge about key S  research topics related to HIV vaccines, new prevention technologies, key populations etc.
• Attends appropriate external meetings and courses to maintain competency and awareness in assigned area and the HIV vaccine community at large.
• Participate in analysis and evaluation of S  and interpret data using a range of analysis packages.
• Participate in preparation, presentation and dissemination of results in the form of reports, briefings, research papers and presentations.
• Train site staff in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis for S .