Vacancy title:
Research Assistants

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Professional Services, Category: Admin & Office]

Jobs at:
SAfAIDS Zambia

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, August 29 2025

Duty Station:
Zambia | Lusaka | Zambia

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, August 25 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

SAfAIDS with support from The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with its Partners seeks to recruit 30 Research Assistants who can ethically collect data from school going children and out of school youths on their learning of Life Skills and Health Education (LSHE) and Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) for a period of two weeks in Western and Northern Provinces.

The Research Assistants will be trained to collect the data. In consultation with the Supervisor and research team, the Research Assistants will collect data from school-going children and non-school-going young people as well as their teachers and learning facilitators. Interviews will be done at schools and from households and facilities in catchment areas of health facilities after administering informed consent. The Research Assistants will also securely store collected data, ensure that good data quality is achieved and complete data collection in a timely manner.

Required Qualifications/Experience

• Full Grade 12 Certificate with at least a Merit in Mathematics and English
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in education, psychology, social sciences and public health
• Certified training in Protection of Human Research Participants will be an added advantage
• Experience in working with adolescents and young people on sexual and reproductive health services is an added advantage
• Must read and speak English and either Lozi or Bemba.
• Must be a resident of a district in Western and Northern Province
• Must have experience collecting data on tablets ideally on Kobo Toolbox (proven by a certificate of completion of a research study)
• Must have a cellular phone ideally a smart one
• Must display the ability to create rapport with children and adolescents
• Must have good interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team environment
• Available for remote data collection sites

Key Responsibilities

• Collect baseline Life Skills and Health Education (LHSE) from pupils in Grade 10-12 in sampled schools and Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) data from out of school young people aged 15-24 years in sampled health facility catchment areas
• Recruit study participants for interviews after administering informed consent
  Ensure confidentiality of collected data is maintained throughout the research process
  Must adhere to all data collection Standard Operating Procedures
  Always maintain high professional standards

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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