Bilingual Wic Program Assistant — Nutrition & Data

Maternal And Family Health Services, Inc.; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Maternal And Family Health Services, Inc. is seeking a Data Acquisition Specialist for External Data, a remote role across Bloemfontein, Durban-Inland, Centurion, and Bellville in South Africa.

The role focuses on defining, setting up and ingesting external data streams in line with clinical trial protocols for data capture. The position involves delivering standardized data stream deliverables, coordinating with data stakeholders, and creating data transfer agreements.

Responsibilities

• Execute deliverables for Standardized External Data Streams.
• Assess external data collection requirements per protocol and plan setup activities to meet study start-up timelines.
• Liaise with data stakeholders to establish data transfer, ingestion, and structure per stream in compliance with data protection laws.
• Create change requests for new test concepts or data structures.
• Develop trial-specific Data Transfer Agreements documenting study requirements and methods for data transfer and ingestion.
• Ensure data transfer frequencies meet agreed requirements for data review and reporting.

Job description

Data Acquisition Specialist - External Data (Remote/Homebased)

Bloemfontein, South Africa
Durban-Inland, KZN, South Africa
Centurion, South Africa
Bellville, South Africa
Full time
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The Data Acquisition Specialist performs activities relating to the definition, set-up and ingestion of External Data Streams, and related documents and processes aligned with Clinical Trial Protocol defined requirements for data capture.
External data streams include but are not limited to typical and novel data collected through central labs and ECG, medical imaging, biomarker and genomics analysis, real world data sources, EHR, electronic patient reported outcomes, wearables and sensors and other digital data collection technologies.
Deliverables

• Execute deliverables for Standardized External Data Streams.
• Assess external data collection requirements per protocol and planning of external data stream set-up activities and related deliverables to meet study start-up timelines.
• Liaise with key data stakeholders to establish the purpose of data collection and requirements for the transfer, ingestion, and structure of data for each data stream in compliance with applicable data protection laws and regulations, utilizing available standards and templates
• Create change requests for the definition of new test concepts or data structures relating to external data.
• Develop trial‑specific Data Transfer Agreements (tsDTA's) accurately documenting study requirements and methods for the data transfer, ingestion, and structure.
• Ensure data transfer frequencies are sufficient for the agreed requirements (medical data review, central monitoring, and reporting and analysis).
• Liaise with external data providers to ensure alignment and agreement of tsDTA.
• Translate medical and scientific concepts into