Senior Medical Scientist at Jhpiego

Overview

• To promote research and development and maintain first world laboratory medicine and practice refined and specific procedures to achieve a final diagnosis for clinical application.

Responsibilities

• Co-manage research and development with a Medical Scientist or Pathologist.
• Publish peer-reviewed articles.
• Training and co-supervision of staff, intern scientists, technologists and students including involvement in the development and delivery of training programs and /or other tools.
• Manage and take accountability for the integrity of data and / or results captured by technical and/or clerical staff.
• Ensure that the maintenance logs are accurate, up to date, accessible and retrievable
• Conducts tests and/or procedures independently, interprets and authorizes results.
• Provide input into scientific changes, enhancements to SOPs.
• Participation in development and validation of new tests.
• Producing standard and complex reports.
• Solves standard / routine technical problems independently (e.g. controls not working); reports persistent problems.
• Perform equipment maintenance, root cause analysis and interprets results of internal quality assessment tests.
• Maintenance and administration carried out according to internal and external requirements.
• Participation in Quality Management which includes identification of quality related problems and resolving them and active participation in maintaining SANAS accreditation.
• Development and validation of new diagnostic methodology or significant modifications to existing scientific applications/procedures.

Required Qualifications

• MSc or equivalent in Medical Science or relevant field/ PhD
• Registered with HPCSA / SACNASP (NIOH), SAIOH (NIOH). May not be applicable for research positions
• 3 years’ experience as scientist  
• Peer reviewed journal manuscript/s or book chapters as first author or co-authored publications
• Successfully supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students – BSc Hons, MMed, MSc
• Experience in funding, development and validation of new tests, Producing standard and complex reports. co-managing project finances

Preferred Qualifications

• Communication Skill
• Custormer care
• Interpersonal skiils
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure and dealing with high work volumes while skepping abreast with academic literature
• Computer Literary skill
• attention to detail 
• Preen