Assistant Research Coordinator (ends Nov 2020)

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An Assistant Research Coordinator (contract ending Nov 2020) vacancy is available at our Client, Wits Health Consortium in Mthatha – Eastern Cape.

Background

Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited (“WHC”) is a wholly owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health Sciences. WHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research and other activities necessary to support its academic objectives. In addition WHC offers a range of products and services to the Academics conducting these activities in order to assist with the management thereof.

Main purpose of the job

  • To assist with the coordination of the activities of the research trial to ensure high quality clinical trials are conducted

Location

  • NeMACRU, Mthatha

Key performance areas

  • Coordinate trial activities to support Principal Investigators
  • Meet objectives of assigned research protocol(s)
  • Prepare and compile study documents and reports
  • Assist and participate in other clinical trial projects as required
  • Monitor timeframes and scope of activities as circumstances dictate
  • Provide support to the study team as directed by the site coordinator
  • Provide support to the Site coordinator
  • Support quality assurance and monitoring processes
  • Participate in or facilitate relevant meetings and schedule meeting when required
  • Coordinate the procurement of equipment and the needs for the trial
  • Assist the team with ad hoc administration assignments and duties

Required minimum education and training

  • A relevant Diploma or bachelor’s degree in a Medical/Health Care or other scientific discipline

Required minimum work experience

  • Minimum 2 years’ experience in a research environment

Additional education, work experience and personal abilities

  • Good administrative skills together with working knowledge of Microsoft Office
  • Pro-active and adaptable
  • Able to work under pressure and adhere to deadlines
  • Self-motivated, able to work independently and as part of a team
  • Experience working in a research environment
  • Ordered and systematic with strict compliance to protocols
  • Tactful, respectful and maintain confidentiality
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Preferably some experience in project management
  • Working overtime
  • Ability to operate in a pressurised environment; maintain diplomacy and confidentiality; monitor project plans of research activities
  • Communicate effectively with management, clients and sponsors
  • Work as part of a team to ensure good service delivery
  • Good interpersonal skills

TO APPLY

  • Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV – Please Apply Online
  • Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.

  • The closing date for all applications is 05 September 2019.

  • Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
  • Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful.
  • In accordance with our Employment Equity goals and plan, preference will be given to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.

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Health24.com | Fast-food joints in the neighbourhood? Heart attack rates likely to go up

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If you live in a neighbourhood where fast-food restaurants abound, you might be more likely to have a heart attack, new research suggests.

It turns out that heart attack rates are higher in neighbourhoods with more fast-food joints, the Australian study found.

Importance of food environment

For every additional fast-food outlet in a neighbourhood, there were four additional heart attacks per 100 000 people each year, according to the report.

To come to that conclusion, researchers examined data on nearly 3 100 patients hospitalised with a heart attack in a region of Australia between 2011 and 2013.

“The findings were consistent across rural and metropolitan areas of New South Wales and after adjusting for age, obesity, high blood lipids, high blood pressure, smoking status and diabetes. The results emphasise the importance of the food environment as a potential contributor towards health,” said study author Tarunpreet Saluja, from the University of Newcastle in Callaghan.

“Ischaemic heart disease, including heart attack, is one of the leading causes of death worldwide,” Saluja noted.

Poor nutritional value

“It is known that eating fast-foods is linked with a higher likelihood of fatal and non-fatal heart attacks. Despite this, there is rapid growth in the purchase and availability of fast-food. This highlights the need to explore the role of food availability in the probability of having a heart attack,” he said.

“Previous studies have shown that the poor nutritional value, high salt and saturated fat in fast-food is connected to heart disease, yet the role of greater access to these restaurants has been less clear,” Saluja said in a European Society of Cardiology (ESC) news release.

The study findings were presented at the annual meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Research presented at meetings should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.

According to Jeroen Bax, past president of the ESC, “Tackling heart disease requires individual responsibility and actions at population level. This study highlights the impact of the food environment on health. In addition to regulating the location and density of fast-food outlets, local areas should ensure good access to supermarkets with healthy food.

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Sport24.co.za | Why these Boks should banish Brighton ghosts

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Cape Town – The wheel can turn in weird ways in rugby.

Back in the lead-up to South Africa’s seemingly routine enough (on paper) opening fixture of the 2015 World Cup against minnows Japan, beefy blindside flanker Willem Alberts pulled out of Heyneke Meyer’s intended starting line-up after injuring a calf in the captain’s run.

It meant a hasty call-up – fifth cap, but maiden start – for a then 23-year-old Pieter-Steph du Toit, at the time much more accustomed to the lock position and picked primarily in that capacity for the tournament.

Hardly helped by the jaw-dropping, collective misery experienced by the supposed superpower on match-day at Brighton Community Stadium that September 19, Du Toit had a difficult afternoon at No 7.

He earned a modest 4.5/10 in my Springbok ratings card afterwards, which included this diplomatic observation: “No special wow factor … but stuck determinedly enough to his guns.”

Perhaps he got off reasonably lightly because – unusually — several team-mates scored lower marks in the Sport24 exercise than he did, with fours and threes a depressingly common feature.

Even so, Du Toit would have to wait just over another year to revisit the flank role – against England at Twickenham – although he earned several further caps in the interim in the second row.

Nowadays, of course, he is enormously more settled, specialised and acclaimed in the position, and it is a quirky fact that despite the indecision at various times over his most suitable role in between, he will be the lone Bok player starting for a second time against the Japanese at Saitama this Friday, following the no-shocks revelation of the match-day 23 on Tuesday.

Two other regular front-liners in the now-budding Rassie Erasmus era as head coach, Eben Etzebeth and Handre Pollard, were only substitutes in the Brighton debacle; the flyhalf got on in the 58th minute for now-retired Pat Lambie, and the big lock (carrying a niggle at the time, hence his rare bench status) with 11 minutes left for Lood de Jager.

In a reversal of roles between the 2015 and 2019 encounters, Francois Louw started the earlier match at openside flank, Jesse Kriel at outside centre and Tendai Mtawarira at loosehead prop … all three will provide impact, instead, this time.

Already a reasonably stalwart feature of Bok plans at the time, “Beast” was especially disappointing at Brighton, his Sport24 assessment reading (alongside a 3.5/10 rating): “Particularly innocuous … turned over in an early carry, and the bug just spread through ranks. Struggled for real scrum oomph, too.”

The Mtawarira of today, even at a ripe old 34, has been cutting an entirely more rejuvenated, urgent figure this season and should be extremely motivated, whenever he appears on Friday, to both set the record straight result-wise and place more pressure on the incumbent of the No 1 shirt, Steven Kitshoff.

For a second time on the trot against these foes, fellow-prop Trevor Nyakane is confined to the splinters although he has become an assertive tighthead nowadays and was the designated loosehead replacement in the 2015 tussle, replacing Mtawarira in the 54th minute.

So although eight members of the current Bok squad — gearing for RWC 2019 and getting this “warm-up” opportunity to spiritedly avenge the earlier Japan upset — featured in the match-day group in Brighton, that only means 34.78 percent of Friday’s equivalent Bok arsenal are at risk of still being haunted by the 2015 howler through their presences in it.

That will be some comfort for Bok supporters fervently wishing that, against the Brave Blossoms, lightning doesn’t strike twice.  

De Jager is a ninth present squad member to have been on the park in East Sussex four years ago, but he is not among Friday’s 23 as RG Snyman is preferred as the reserve lock.

A little ironically, the beanpole De Jager earned premier Bok rating in Brighton of 6.5/10, with the comment: “Consistently industrious in tight-loose, and lovely athleticism for tearaway try.”

Bok fans will be anticipating ratings of at least thereabouts, and loftier too, for plenty of green-and-gold personnel this time around …

Here is the Bok starting XV for the Saitama encounter, with the corresponding player in each jersey from the 2015 game reflected in brackets:

15 Willie le Roux (Zane Kirchner), 14 Cheslin Kolbe (Bryan Habana), 13 Lukhanyo Am (Jesse Kriel), 12 Damian de Allende (Jean de Villiers), 11 Makazole Mapimpi (Lwazi Mvovo), 10 Handre Pollard (Pat Lambie), 9 Faf de Klerk (Ruan Pienaar), 8 Duane Vermeulen (Schalk Burger), 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit (same), 6 Siya Kolisi (Francois Louw), 5 Franco Mostert (Victor Matfield), 4 Eben Etzebeth (Lood de Jager), 3 Frans Malherbe (Jannie du Plessis), 2 Malcolm Marx (Bismarck du Plessis), 1 Steven Kitshoff (Tendai Mtawarira).

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The startups changing healthcare through innovation

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A change in the way we see, and deliver, healthcare has been a burgeoning investment in startups in the sector. In 2017 alone, the estimated global investment in healthcare startups sat at around $12 billion.

Financial Controller/Management Accountant (Cape Town)

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Location: Cape Town, City Bowl
Education level: Degree
Job level: Mid/Senior
Type: Permanent
Company: HouseME

Job description

Exciting technology company hiring a financial controller or management accountant to carry out financial reporting and maintain internal controls as part of a strong accounts team.

The job includes, but is not limited to:

  • Financial reporting and analysis
  • Preparation of financials for audit
  • Budgeting and forecast modelling
  • Preparation of monthly management accounts and weekly metrics reports
  • Bank reconciliations
  • Financial reporting for key clients
  • Management of compliance (E.g. FIC, EAAB, Rental Housing Act)
  • Oversight and improvement of internal controls
  • Monthly reporting to insurance providers
  • Risk reviews and recommendations
  • Cost analysis and management
  • Tax management
  • Management of payments to suppliers
  • Other reasonable company requests

Company Description

HouseME is an online platform that makes renting easy and accessible for both landlords and tenants. Founded in 2016 by two South Africans, HouseME has been featured on Cape Talk, 702, and more. As a technology company, it is swiftly disrupting residential renting, with first-mover advantage in South Africa.

Requirements

The ideal candidate:

  • Has a degree in accounting (BCom or equivalent); CA (SA) a bonus
  • Has a minimum of four years’ experience at an accounting firm or similar
  • Has experience ensuring internal compliance; experience with FIC or the EAAB a bonus
  • Has excellent financial communication skills; experience with Xero a bonus
  • Is incredibly hard-working and willing to go the extra mile
  • Is keen to continuously learn and able to adapt quickly, often while under pressure.
  • Has strong Excel skills

To apply, please submit a CV and short motivational letter by Friday 6 September.

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Intermediate-Senior SAP Recruitment Consultant (Bryanston)

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Remuneration: negotiable Basic plus commission 
Benefits: Commission and incentives
Location: Bryanston
Type: Contract
Company: E-merge IT Recruitment

Job description

Would you like to write your own paycheque? Can you influence and persuade people to your point of view? We have what you need! One of the big boys within the IT space, e-Merge IT is currently recruiting for seasoned SAP recruiters with a hunger for money, success and an undying ambition for career growth and development.

This is a tough job and would be ideal for individuals with grit.

If you are achievement-oriented with a good track record behind you, then we have the platform to catapult your career. Talk to us now on 011 463 3633

Requirements

Skills and experience:

  • Minimum three years’ recruitment
  • Specialisation in SAP recruitment is highly advantageous
  • Tertiary qualification preferred
  • Own car and driver’s license
  • Stable track record
  • A good billing track record
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong learning agility

Posted on 03 Sep 09:04

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Animation of 3D Technical Renders (Ballito)

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Three-month contract with option to renew.

We are looking for an individual who is experienced and knowledgable in animating 3D technical renders. 3D technical renders will be supplied to you in stp file format, which will then require animating in a CAD based engineering program such as Fusion 360. We are not looking for animators using Maya, Blender or After Effect as these are not the correct programs for the work spec we are needing completed.

The office is based in Ballito – but we are willing to have the individual work remotely should we not find someone locally.

We require someone who works quickly, is reliable and sticks to deadlines. We have a total of 40 x 1 minute animations to complete over a 3 month period.

Please email our managing director, Chloe with the following:

  1. Examples of your 3D technical animations as well as timeline for that animation and the program you used
  2. Your salary expectation
  3. Your availability 

Posted on 03 Sep 08:59

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