Data Manager

About The George Institute

We are a medical research institute affiliated with leading universities aiming to challenge the status quo in health care.  With 700+ people around the world, and projects in over 40 countries, our Strategy 2025 is all about impact – specifically, the impact of The George Institute’s activities on the health of millions of people, particularly those living in disadvantaged circumstances around the world.

Our strategy focuses on three key research priorities:

Better Treatments: finding better treatments for the world’s biggest health problems

Better Care: transforming primary health care to support better health for more people

Healthier Societies: harnessing the power of communities, governments and markets to improve health

Our innovative commercial enterprises help maximise our impact. 

Here is a sample of the things we are doing to achieve our goal of having the greatest possible impact on global health:

We are identifying better and safer treatments for our biggest killers like stroke, heart disease and high blood pressure;

In many countries, our award winning FoodSwitch smartphone app is helping people make healthy food choices when shopping;

In China, we ran a successful education and awareness program to reduce the amount of salt eaten by people by 25% each day

In rural India, we have shown that mobile technology can help diagnose mental health, as well as help treat cardiovascular disease, and we’re looking at similar approaches to treating chronic diseases in Indonesia and China;

Together with Aboriginal communities in NSW, Australia, we developed an innovative community led program to assist young Aboriginal drivers attain their license, now implemented in a dozen of locations;

We are developing an affordable dialysis machine, with potential to save millions of lives each year and transform the way kidney disease is treated globally. 

The George Institute India

The George Institute, a wholly owned legal not-for-profit Indian research institute, has been conducting research related activities in India since 2002. The George Institute India’s mission mirrors that of the parent organization, namely the discovery and implementation of solutions to chronic and disabling health problems through research, policy development and capacity building.

A number of large-scale projects in population, health systems and clinical research, funded by a diverse group of sponsors, both public and private, are conducted in India. The George Institute, India comprises two distinct operating groups: Research and Development, and Infrastructure and Resources. It has two separate offices - in Hyderabad and New Delhi, where the research staff and senior management are based.

Context and Role

All three strategic pillars have quantitative research activities. The Centre for operational and research excellence (CORE), India has initiated centralised data management support across projects.

The Data Manager (DM) will be primarily working on data management of quantitative projects (trials and surveys) being conducted at George insititute. The data manager will also be member of the central Data management team at TGI, Centre for operational and research excellence (CORE), India. The DM will be involved in designing database, remote data monitoring,  provide training to  clinical /Field /academic studystaff and ensure high quality of data collection and audit ready data.

Reporting Relationships

Directly reports to Lead Better treatments program

Indirectly (Dotted) to the Head of Biostatistics and Data Science Division at India.

Duties and Key Responsibilities

Technical Responsibilities

• Assist with the design of Case Report Forms and other data collection tools according to study protocol requirements
• Design, build, test/ validate, implement and support electronic data collection systems for research projects
• Program and validate data quality checks in the data management system (for example, inconsistent, missing and incorrect data checks)
• Generate and manage project data queries (for example, inconsistent, missing and incorrect data queries)
• Review, monitor and track the quality and accuracy of the project data
• Perform review and maintenance tasks on the data management systems
• Develop, validate and generate reports as required for the project
• Data cleaning, formatting, and data listing tasks in Stata or similar software where applicable
• Undertake simple data analyses where applicable
• Assist in the preparation of blinded and unblinded data for interim analyses, presentations and publications as required for projects
• Support data transfer and data sharing requirements of projects, ensuring compliance with current data protection legislation, IT security policies and and trial procedures
• Contribute to the co-ordination of project database lock/ close and archiving across all sites to ensure delivery of an accurate and complete project database.
• Assist with troubleshooting any issues with project data or the data management systems.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project data management documentation using Institute templates where available eg. Data Management Plan, Edit Check Specifications
• Contribute to and review project data management documentation as required
• Train and support project and site staff in the correct procedures for processing and entering data, maintaining accuracy and quality control
• Ensure all work complies with the agreed change management processes for the project
• Ensure all work and documentation meets quality assurance standards for the regulatory authorities, inspection and audit needs
• Present data updates at meetings as required e.g. for institutional progress reports or for quality assurance purposes
• Comply with all applicable regulations, guidelines, SOPs and project-specific requirements
• Participate in the development and validation of new data management systems and processes as required
• Provide input to systems, tools and process improvements

The  Data manager would be expected to:

Teamwork and Communication Responsibilities

• Liaison with project staff (Investigators, Research Fellows, Project Managers, CRAs, Statisticians, external parties) to determine data collection, management, support and reporting requirements
• Liaison with external electronic data management system vendors for as required
• Liaison with and provide support to the global DM team as required
• Liaison with Centre of Operations and Research Excellence (CORE) for Institute quality control and compliance with standard operating systems
• Liaison with the IT team as required
• Attend and actively participate in George Institute meetings and other internal meetings as required
• Develop and maintain good communications and working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders

The Data manager should also:

• Comply with all applicable regulations, guidelines, SOPs and project-specific requirements
• Comply with all Institute policies and procedures relevant to this role

As a Team Member:

• Deliver and maintain a high standard of work while meeting set timelines
• Participate in team meetings and activities;
• Participate in special projects to improve processes, tools, systems and organization
• Take responsibility for personal learning and development and for setting achievable and meaningful work objectives and managing personal targets, meeting obligations of the Institute’s Performance Management and Development Policy;
• Demonstrate commitment to GI’s values, including performing to an exceptionally high ethical standard and focus on integrity, collaboration and teamwork in all efforts.
• Participate in team meetings and activities relating to and own work area;
• Participate in special projects to improve processes, tools, systems and organisation;
• Take responsibility for personal learning and development and for setting achievable and meaningful work objectives and managing personal targets, meeting obligations of the Institute’s Performance Management and Development Policy;
• Demonstrate commitment to GI’s values, including performing to an exceptionally high ethical standard and focus on integrity, collaboration and teamwork in all efforts.

As a Team Manager:

• Ensure direct reports understand and comply with GI’s Policies and procedures, standard operating practices, ethical practice (with respect to research) and the legislative environment.
• Be responsible for managing performance of direct reports, including the completion of plans and agreeing on work and personal objectives and reviewing such plans and objectives, in accordance with GI’s Performance Management and Development Policy.
• Act as a role model and ensure the team’s commitment to GI’s values, ensuring direct reports perform to a high ethical standard and focus on integrity, collaboration and teamwork in all efforts.

Work, Health and Safety

• Comply with GI’s Work Health and Safety Policy and related procedures, and similar policies which apply when visiting the premises of affiliates and collaborating sites.
• Promote and contribute to a safe, secure environment for staff and visitors.
• Ensure direct reports understand and comply with safe work practice and procedures.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Qualifications:  Masters  in a related science or health care discipline, clinical data management research background essential.
• More than 10 years Experience years experience in clinical/health research data mangment within an academic, CRO or pharmaceutical environment.
• Experience with database management or SQL programming preferred.
• Demonstrated capability to produce outcomes and achieve objectives within agreed time periods;
• Strong problem solving, analytical skills, and proven strategic thinking;
• Excellent interpersonal skills with high level of proficiency in English and the ability to work well autonomously;
• Excellent team-work skills, with demonstrated ability to collaborate in small teams and with a wide range of varying stakeholders;
• Ability to demonstrate flexibility and to be adaptable to changing organisational priorities and ambiguous environments;
• Strong focus on producing the highest quality of work and on ensuring optimum accuracy of outputs;
• Well organised and efficient, with the capacity to work under pressure;
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies, concepts and processes quickly.

How to apply:

Interested candidates should send their resume with full contact details, current and expected CTC/salary.Clearly mentioning the job title Data Manager in the subject line to hrindia@georgeinstitute.org.in by the 05 April 2022.

Our big and bold mission to improve the health of millions of people worldwide needs a diverse and innovative team to deliver it.  So we foster a dynamic, inclusive and flexible workplace where each individual can bring their best selves to work.

Everyone is encouraged to apply, including people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with a disability, people of all gender identities and sexual orientations, and mature-aged adults.