Antenatal Risk Stratification, Technical Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Nigeria.

📋 Description

• Evaluate and enhance the current Antenatal Risk Stratification tool, focusing on questions, risk classification logic, clinical recommendations, and referral pathways.

• Broaden the tool's scope to include risk assessment during the postnatal period, newborn stage, and non-pregnant condition.

• Ensure the updated tool and clinical logic are in accordance with relevant clinical guidelines and evidence.

• Develop the tool validation strategy, encompassing methodology, study design, sampling, testing procedures, data requirements, outcomes, and analysis framework.

• Oversee the preparation and submission of ethical approval requests, research protocols, and accompanying documentation; manage responses and revisions during the approval process.

• Offer technical guidance for the tool's testing and validation in collaboration with program, clinical, data, and implementation teams.

• Create research methodologies and scientific documentation, and assist with research manuscripts and publications.

• Aid in the digitization of the tool alongside product and technology teams, ensuring clinical questions, algorithms, risk classifications, recommendations, and workflows are accurately translated into the digital format.

• Analyze testing and implementation results, recommending evidence-based adjustments.

• Provide continuous technical input on maternal, postnatal, newborn, and women's health risk stratification.

⛳️ Requirements

• A medical degree with considerable clinical experience; a specialty in Obstetrics & Gynaecology or a related field in maternal/newborn health is highly preferred.

• Over 7 years of pertinent clinical and/or public health experience, with substantial expertise in maternal and newborn health.

• Proven experience in clinical research, study design, research methodology, and scientific writing.

• Strong comprehension of research ethics and IRB/ethical approval processes, including the preparation of research protocols and ethics applications.

• Experience in designing or assisting with the validation of clinical tools, decision-support tools, screening tools, or risk-stratification models.

• Exceptional ability to interpret clinical evidence and convert it into actionable clinical algorithms, recommendations, and referral pathways.

• Experience in collaborative work with clinical, program, data, product, and technology teams.

• Excellent scientific writing capabilities, including the development of research reports, manuscripts, abstracts, or publications.

• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Capability to work independently and produce clearly defined outcomes within a short, deliverables-driven engagement.

🏝️ Benefits

• Contract on a short-term basis

• Competitive compensation

• Additional benefits and perks

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment