PROJECT MANAGER

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

PROJECT MANAGER CRADLE-B

SIERRA LEONE

Formation / Diplômes

Welbodi Partnership is a UK-registered charity working to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity in Sierra Leone. Since 2008, Welbodi Partnership has worked in close partnership with hospital management, health facility staff, and the Ministry of Health to improve access to maternal and child health outcomes in Sierra Leone. We do this through a range of health system strengthening activities, staff training, hospital improvement projects, and community engagement. For further information about our work, please see: www.welbodipartnership.org About CRADLE-B Pregnancy is a stress-test of cardiometabolic health. Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are associated with subsequent risk of chronic hypertension (CHT) and premature cardiovascular disease (CVD), especially in women of African ancestry. HDP affect 10% of pregnancies and CVD is leading cause of death in women worldwide. However, data on postnatal prevalence of CHT after HDP and associated hypertensive-mediated-organ-damage in LMICs are limited. Early postnatal care provides a unique opportunity to detect and manage CHT through evidence-based interventions. However, effective care is challenging due to limited knowledge, poor healthcare access, and low levels of trust in healthcare systems, particularly among vulnerable groups. Our approach builds on our successful foundational work supporting management of HDP in Sub-Saharan Africa, including community engagement initiatives, co-development of materials for communities and healthcare professionals and point-of-care diagnostics. CRADLE-B is a programme of work comprising four workstreams which aims to co-develop and evaluate a targeted community-based postnatal intervention for women with HDP to facilitate earlier detection, improved hypertension management and prevention of hypertension-mediated organ damage in Sierra Leone, Zambia and South Africa. Job Identification Job Title Project Manager

Localisation

Location Freetown, Sierra Leone Reporting line The Project Manager will report to Welbodi Head of Programs Contract Type and Length Fixed term; 12 Month (s) (extendable subject to funding) Department / Project Program – CRADLE-B Purpose of The Role The post holder will join the CRADLE-B study research team in Sierra Leone. This role will involve project administration, study setup, participant recruitment and consent, data collection, data monitoring and longer-term participant follow up over the course of the study. Long term follow up will be in the form of regular telephone and face-to-face check ins with participants in the community. With technical guidance from a team of maternal health researchers at King’s College London, Welbodi Partnership team and the principal and co-investigators at Princess Christian Maternity Hospital (Freetown), the role of the Project Manager will be to facilitate the smooth and effective running of the project in Sierra Leone. The project manager will be responsible for ensuring that, as far as possible, study recruitment targets are met, accurate data is collected in a timely fashion and maintained on a secure database and that the study is conducted in accordance with International Congress of Harmonisation of Good Clinical Practice (ICHGCP) standards. Working Conditions The work will be based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, including Princess Christian Maternity Hospital and Welbodi Partnership Office. It will also involve travel to peripheral health facilities and communities outside of Freetown (exact locations to be confirmed). This is a fixed short term contract post for the duration of the study, with a probationary review at 3 months. There may be out of hours work involved in this role, when required. This role will involve travel to relevant data collection sites. The post holder is entitled to annual leave in line with the employment code of Welbodi Partnership. Key Responsibilities Participant Recruitment: The post holder is responsible for enrolling participants to Workstream 2 of CRADLE-B. This will involve: Daily telephone

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