Data Manager (12 Months Contract - Wits Health Consortium)

SUMMARY:
Background:

• Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited ("WHC") is a wholly-owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health Sciences
• WHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research and other activities necessary to support its academic objectives
• In addition, WHC offers a range of products and services to Academics

POSITION INFO:
Division: Wits Planetary Health Research

Main purpose of the job:

• To oversee the data management of research projects, including designing, implementing and maintaining research databases; ensuring data integrity; and supporting research staff with data extraction, cleaning and reporting

• Parktown, Johannesburg

• Provide technical input into research tools and database design
• Develop, configure and maintain research databases and electronic data capture (EDC) systems e.g., REDCap, Excel etc.
• Monitor data completeness, consistency, and protocol compliance across studies
• Develop and revise data management plans
• Develop, implement and maintain all data related SOPs
• Quality assurance of all data in accordance with ethical, protocol and GCP requirements and SOPs
• Support preparation of datasets for analysis
• Support development of research protocols
• Develop, define and manage data management related timelines, deliverables and performance metrics
• Assess and forecast research progress and communicate deliverables in terms of study milestones
• Participate in research initiation meetings and/or study team meetings to discuss logistical aspects of studies
• Monitor and evaluate progress of data management for respective projects
• Compile monthly/quarterly/annual progress reports as required
• Oversee the maintenance of participant files and archiving
• Provide ongoing support to data capturers through regular meetings, including reviewing issues with paper or electronic forms, troubleshooting data-entry concerns, and conducting training as needed
• Implement data quality assurance procedures, including routine audits, discrepancy checks, and query resolution
• Raise and resolve data queries with Data Capturers and/or sites
• Monitor data entry for validity and integrity by running data validation reports
• Analyse the results from the quality control activities to ensure that data quality is not put at risk
• Generate routine and ad-hoc data summaries, reports, and dashboards for investigators and stakeholders
• Provide support to relevant project staff and support them in the use of statistical software
• Import and export data between data management software programmes
• Process and produce accurate data reports within required timeframes

• Post Graduate Degree in Statistics or Computer Science,
• Master’s in Public Health will be an added advantage

• 5 years’ experience managing research data in academic, clinical or health related environments

• Experience with designing and building electronic data capture platforms e.g., REDCap
• Experience with data quality reviews or data audits
• Proficiency with statistical software (R, Python, Stata)
• Experience monitoring data quality and integrating data from multiple sources (e.g. questionnaires, personal activity trackers (e.g. fitbits/garmins), pathology results)
• Experience using APIs and processing and cleaning diverse data sources including personal activity trackers (e.g. Fitbits or Gamins, weather station data)
• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines
• Problem-solving mindset

• Only if you meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV including a Cover leter (One pager)
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• Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates
• Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful
• Closing date: 04 June 2026
• Note: No CV will be accepted after the closing date

• WHC, in accordance with its Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto
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