In-country Coordinator - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

We are recruiting for an In-country Coordinator to assist with qualitative data collection for this evaluation. The coordinator will be responsible for arranging and coordinating interviews with key stakeholders, and may also be responsible for obtaining written informed consent, assisting with or conducting the interviews, and securely transferring audio recordings of interviews to LSHTM.

This position will take place at various locations including at offices of the Ministry of Health, health facilities, and communities throughout Ghana as needed. The position will encompass various tasks detailed below. 

Job Description
Key duties and responsibilities will be to:

• Organize and lead introductory meetings with the Ministry of Health, and other officials as needed in order to raise awareness and obtain local approval for the evaluation
• Interact with stakeholders with the highest level of professionalism and respect, in order to arrange in-depth interviews
• Recruit participants to take part in the study
• Schedule data collection visits
• Seek and obtain informed consent from study participants
• Facilitate data collection that will be conducted remotely via phone, Zoom, or Skype
• Conduct in-depth interviews in-person, with support from LSHTM, as and when needed
• Ensure adherence to all ethics and standard protocols during data collection
• Explain the study rationale comprehensively and answer questions from the public about the study
• Report any arising matters to LSHTM and help resolve them
• Perform any other tasks relating to the research as required