Research Assistant

Position Overview

• The Research Assistant will support the day-to-day implementation of research and project activities under the INFORM Africa Research Hub grant. This role combines research and communications assistance.
• The candidate will work closely with the project team to ensure activities are well documented, research outputs are delivered on time, and the project’s achievements are effectively showcased through social media and other channels.

Key Responsibilities

• Support scientific writing: Support the delivery of at least two scientific publications annually, including literature reviews and manuscript drafts and one grant application (as assigned).
• Draft social media posts, event summaries, success stories, and visual content briefs for science communication postings and monitor interactions online: Work with the communication assistant to design and develop high-quality, approved social media posts, event summaries, success stories, and visual content briefs for at least 95% of assigned project activities, in line with institutional communication guidelines.
• Assist with project reporting, archiving project materials, organizing project One drive folder and keeping all in date: Contribute timely inputs to grant reports and ensure all project documents are accurately updated, properly archived, and submitted within agreed timelines
• Prepare clear and accurate meeting minutes, documenting key discussions, follow up action points, and next steps: Prepare and submit accurate meeting minutes within 5 working days for all assigned meetings, clearly capturing key discussions, decisions, action points, responsible persons, and timelines.
• Support the INFORM Africa capacity building activities: Support at least two capacity-building activities annually by preparing training materials, managing attendance documentation, providing logistics assistance, conducting participant follow-up, and delivering post-activity summaries.
• Support data collection, analysis and visualization: Accurately carry out assigned tasks in data collection, cleaning, analysis, and visualization.
• Additional responsibilities will be assigned by the direct supervisor: Other tasks will be assigned based on the need to support INFORM Africa and may include photography, maintaining grants calendars, support manuscript writing, etc.

Educational Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Microbiology or any other relevant qualification.
• At least One year Experience in scientific writing, project support roles, administration and reporting.

Safeguarding (PSEAH):

• As an organization, IHVN takes the issue of Protection against Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) seriously, because safeguarding the people we interface with in all our programmatic work is of the utmost importance to us. 
• IHVN only recruits’ representatives who are suited and abides to the strict responsibility of SEAH.
• By applying to this role, you are agreeing to IHVN carrying out a background check on you with respect to SEAH records and you also confirm that not before or after being hired will you breach the IHVN policy on SEAH.

Equal employment opportunity statement:

• IHVN is an equal employment employer. We do not engage in practices that discriminate against any person employed or seeking employment based on religion, gender, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, genetic information, or any other status or characteristic protected under applicable laws.

Application Closing Date
10th August, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application letter, detailed curriculum vitae and contact information for two professional references in Microsoft Word format should be forwarded to the Assistant Director, Human Resources" via: [email protected]using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Note : Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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