Senior Qualitative Research Assistant – Aging & Health

National University of Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 56,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

The Centre for Ageing Research and Education (CARE) at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, is seeking a full-time Research Assistant (Senior) or Research Associate to lead qualitative research for a randomized-clinical control trial aimed at optimizing health and social outcomes for frail older persons post hospital discharge.

You will design, conduct, and analyze interviews in English and Mandarin/Malay, develop coding frameworks, manage data, and contribute to reports and publications.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant social science, public health, health services research or related discipline is strongly preferred.
• At least 2 years of experience in conducting semi-structured or in-depth interviews and independently analysing qualitative data.
• Experience developing coding frameworks and conducting thematic or framework analysis.
• Proficient in English with ability to interview older adults and caregivers; Mandarin/Malay as applicable.

Responsibilities

• Lead the qualitative component of an evaluation study, including design, fieldwork, analysis, interpretation and dissemination.
• Develop and refine semi-structured interview guides informed by relevant frameworks.
• Develop and manage purposive sampling strategies across multiple participant groups.
• Conduct in-depth interviews with older adults, caregivers and healthcare professionals in English and Mandarin/Malay as appropriate.
• Manage qualitative data preparation, including transcription review, translation checks, anonymisation, fieldnotes, secure storage and data quality assurance.
• Develop and maintain the qualitative coding framework using deductive and inductive approaches; lead coding, framework/thematic analysis, double-coding and analytic discussions.
• Maintain an audit trail, analytic memos and documentation of methodological and analytical decisions.
• Work with the wider study team to integrate qualitative findings with study implementation and outcome findings; contribute to reports, presentations and manuscripts.
• Liaise with study stakeholders regarding recruitment, fieldwork, interpretation and study procedures.
• Support ethics/governance submissions, protocol amendments and study documentation relating to the qualitative component.
• Train or support other research staff involved in qualitative data collection and analysis.
• Assist with CARE's other initiatives as needed.

Skills

Qualitative research

Interviewing

Data analysis

Team collaboration

Education

Master's degree in social science/public health

Tools

NVivo

Job description

The Centre for Ageing Research and Education (CARE) at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, is seeking a full-time Research Assistant (Senior) or Research Associate to lead qualitative research for a randomized-clinical control trial aimed at optimizing health and social outcomes for frail older persons post hospital discharge.

You will design, conduct, and analyze interviews in English and Mandarin/Malay, develop coding frameworks, manage data, and contribute to reports and publications.