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The Institute for HIV Research and Innovation (IHRI) (Formerly PREVENTION, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre) is a leader in research and innovation in the prevention of HIV and other health issues. We are a non-profit organization that is focused on organizational development through effective human resources management and capacity development processes to enable our personnel to work as efficiently as possible. Based on equality and community participation, which drives good public health policy. In addition, IHRI is a regional resource for research, education and training.

The Institute for HIV Research and Innovation (IHRI) stands for the elimination of stigma and discrimination and respect for diversity, to allow individuals to truly demonstrate their full potential, meet challenges, and have opportunities for career advancement and personal development to build a creative society together with us.

Role Overview: The main purpose of this position is to work as a nurse on HIV/STIs and other health-related services and implementation research projects for key populations being conducted at IHRI. The duties include but are not limited to: providing primary and preventive healthcare services in HIV/STIs and other health-related services for clients to receive appropriate assessment, maintaining medical records, managing follow-up appointments, administering medications and vaccines, and performing sample collection and cancer screening in accordance with proper standards under the technical direction of a physician. The nurse will also participate in implementation research projects in enrolling study participants, obtaining informed consent, completing study procedures, collecting samples, collecting data, and entering data to the system according to study protocols, based on good clinical practice principles.

Core Accountability & Responsibility:

1. Provide counseling for HIV/STIs and other health-related services to key-population clients and their partners.

2. Support research studies: To screen, enroll, and follow-up clients in the related studies. To perform assigned tasks related to the study procedures in compliance with the protocol.

3. Oversee data collection and management: To enter clients’ information into the database. To coordinate with the data team to ensure the completion and high quality of dataset.  

4. Develop standard of procedures (SOPs)

5. Assist in participant recruitment, screening, enrollment, and follow-up for research projects

6. Adhere to organization’s research policies, regulations, GCP, and HSP.

7. To manage the medical supply inventory for clinic

8. Other tasks as assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications and Experience

1. Thai citizen only

2. Bachelor degree of nursing science

3. Minimum 3 years of clinical experience or research experience

4. Good understanding and sensitivity to gender diversity, people living with HIV, and other vulnerable populations as well as good understanding of the political and ethical issues surrounding HIV and AIDS

5. Good knowledge of HIV/AIDS and STI Prevention

6. Actively keeping up to date with new knowledge and findings related to the field of HIV/STIs

Please send your cover letter, CV and expected salary by email to recruit@ihri.org. If you need any further information, please contact us via e-mail or phone: 02 252 9958 or visit our website at www.ihri.org. Application Deadline: 30 September 2020 Only short-list candidates will be notified.