Career Opportunities

Senior Research Assistant / Research Assistant I (holding the functional title of Project Manager / Assistant Project Manager) in the Centre for Safe Medication Practice and Research (Ref: 533079)

We now invite applications for the captioned post(s).

 Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with a team of researchers on community-related projects in the areas of mental well-being, mental disorders, public health, and other health-related fields. The work will also include evaluations of humanistic and clinical outcomes of community interventions and services; health preference elicitation using health survey methods (e.g., Discrete Choice Experiments and other health preference survey methodologies); quality of life measures; patient-reported outcome measures; survey validation; and economic evaluations.
• Perform literature reviews for community pharmacy-related projects.

• Assist with subject recruitment, study protocol design, recruitment logistics, survey design, and conducting face-to-face interviews (individual or focus group).
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
• Assist in the implementation of research projects in Hong Kong SAR and mainland China.
• Prepare human ethics applications for research projects.
• Prepare reports and manuscripts.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• A Master’s degree, or a Bachelor’s degree with relevant experience, in Public Health, Social Science, Social Work and Social Administration, Counselling, Health Economics, Health Sciences, Psychology, Nursing, Pharmacy, or a related healthcare discipline. 
• Experience in engaging and collaborating with different community stakeholders such as case workers, social workers, clinical psychologists, mental health organisations, and NGO partners will be an advantage. 
• Experience in conducting mixed-methods studies (e.g., patient recruitment, individual and/or focus group interviews, questionnaire design, survey validation, data collection, and qualitative and quantitative analyses using tools such as NVivo, Qualtrics, R, or STATA) and quality of life research will be an advantage.
• Excellent coordination, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• A good command of spoken and written English and Chinese (Cantonese).
• A strong sense of responsibility and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Attentiveness to detail.
• Those with lower qualifications and/or less experience will be considered for appointment as  Research Assistant I (holding the functional title of Assistant Project Manager)

What We Offer

The appointment will commence as soon as possible on a 1-year temporary basis, with the possibility of renewal subject to satisfactory performance.

A highly competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered. Other benefits include annual leave, medical benefits and free access to on-campus gyms and libraries.

Enquiries about the duties of the posts should be sent to Prof. Esther Chan at csmpr@hku.hk .

How to Apply

The University only accepts online application for the above post(s). Applicants should apply online and upload an up-to-date C.V. Review of applications will start as soon as possible and continue until 30 September 2025, or until the post(s) are filled, whichever is earlier.