Earn 15,000 US Dollars as one of 2 Diagnostic Officers – Malaria Consortium
Job Title: Diagnostic Officer (2 Job Careers)
Organization: Malaria Consortium
Project Name: Strengthening Uganda’s Response to Malaria (SURM)
Duty Station: Gulu and Lira, Uganda
Salary: USD 15,037 gross per annum
About US:
Malaria Consortium is the world’s leading not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. Malaria Consortium works to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity of national health systems, which helps relieve poverty and support improved economic prosperity.
About SURM Project:
Malaria Consortium Uganda has received funding from DFID/UNICEF to implement the Strengthening Uganda’s Response to Malaria (SURM) project which will focus on reducing the impact of the leading causes of U5M morbidity and mortality in 16 districts in Northern Uganda. The project will address lagging maternal and neonatal mortality through a combination of iCCM and selected maternal and neonatal care interventions. The project is implemented with UNICEF and spans a five-year period (April 2018-March 2023) in 16 districts in the Northern region of Uganda.
Job Summary: The Diagnostic Officer will provide diagnostic technical and implementation support to SURM project activities in districts in the Northern region
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Malaria Consortium Diagnostic Officer job opportunity should hold a degree/diploma in Medical lab technologist with public health degree/diploma.
- Previous experience working in public health implementation or communicable disease control in Africa
- Experience in laboratory diagnostics
- Experience training others in laboratory techniques, including malaria detection
- Familiarity with the Ugandan health system
- Demonstrable experience and capacity in effective monitoring and evaluation, including the design and conduct of surveys, data analysis and interpretation relating to both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, documentation and dissemination
- Experience in carrying out field-based operational research
- Excellent communication skills, with a supportive management style
- Excellent stakeholder liaison skills, and experience in working in partnerships to deliver programmes
- Thorough understanding of both preventive and curative aspects of malaria control
- Familiarity with the strategies and guidelines of the Uganda National Malaria Control Programme
- Previous experience in training of health workers
- Experience in using participatory adult learning technique
How to Apply:
All interested applicants are encouraged to apply online at the web link below.
Deadline: 9th May 2018
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