Clinical Research Assistant at Ascentech Services Limited

Ascentech Services Limited is a full-fledged Human Resource Solution Provider incorporated in 2013 with its Head Office in Lagos, Nigeria. We are committed to forging long-term partnerships with our clients by creating and delivering robust and flexible services that address the changing needs of their businesses.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Clinical Research Assistant

Location: Enugu
Employment Type: Full-time

Summary

• We are seeking a detail-oriented and organised Clinical Research Assistant to provide administrative, documentation, and data management support to the OncoClinics Research Office.
• The successful candidate will support the coordination and management of oncology research projects, ensuring proper documentation, ethical compliance, timely grant applications, manuscript preparation, and research reporting.
• The role involves working closely with investigators and under the supervision of the Research Coordinator/Research Lead.

Job Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day administration of the OncoClinics Research Office, including filing systems, research templates and version-controlled documents.
• Maintain a registry of ongoing, planned, completed and published oncology research projects at the centre.
• Track protocols, ethics submissions, amendments, renewals, active studies, grants, abstracts, manuscripts and publications.
• Support investigators with protocol formatting, ethics submission packages, consent documents and other research documentation.
• Keep study files and essential documents complete and up to date for monitoring, audits and ethics committee reviews.
• Support data collection, data entry and data cleaning for approved studies using tools such as REDCap, KoboToolbox or Excel.
• Support manuscript, abstract and conference submission processes, including formatting to journal or conference guidelines.
• Carry out literature searches and maintain organised reference libraries using reference-management software.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Health Sciences, Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, Statistics, Health Information Management, Research Administration, or a related field.
• 1 – 2 years of experience in research assistance or coordination, academic administration, public health programming, clinical research, or project administration.
• A master’s degree or ongoing postgraduate training in public health, epidemiology, health systems, implementation science, health economics, or a related field is an advantage.
• Experience with grants, ethics submissions, manuscript formatting, reference managers, REDCap, KoboToolbox, SPSS, Stata, or R is desirable.
• Good Clinical Practice (GCP) or human subjects research certification is an advantage

Salary
N200,000 monthly Net.

Application Closing Date
16th November, 2026.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using “CLINICAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT- ENUGU” as the subject of the email.