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Title:          Laboratory
Technician

Organisation: Uganda
Virus Research Institute (UVRI)

Duty Station: Entebbe,
Uganda

Reports to: Laboratory
Technologist

About US:

Uganda Virus
Research Institute (UVRI) is one of the constituent research institutions under
the Uganda National Health Research Organization (UNHRO). UVRI has a broad
mission to carry out scientific investigations on communicable diseases of
public health importance and to advise government on strategies for their
control and prevention.

About PEPFAR Project:

The Uganda Virus
Research Institute (UVRI) has signed a MoU with the US Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) to strengthen Institute capacity through the management and
coordination of laboratory surveillance, epidemiology, public health
evaluations and training in Uganda under the U.S President’s Emergency Plan for
AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Under this cooperation, UVRI intends to recruit the
following personnel on a one year contract to be renewed depending on
satisfactory performance and availability of funds.

Job Summary:  The Laboratory Technician will conduct quality
control and other HIV associated tests in line with the mandate of the HIV
National Reference Laboratory and also provide laboratory quality assurance
support to HIV testing sites.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Participate in development of laboratory standard operating
  procedures Preparation of HIV proficiency testing panels Distribute HIV
  proficiency testing panels to testing sites
• Provide standard operating procedures to testing sites
• Collect quality control specimens from testing sites
• Register and store specimens in easily retrievable manner until
  required for retesting Keep updated inventories of all specimens in the
  repository using a user friendly archival software Take measures to ensure
  that aliquots of tested specimens are properly stored, minimizing freezing
  and thawing
• Timely maintenance of the cold chain system
• Review the test results with the Laboratory Technologist before
  forwarding them for data entry, management and analysis
• Carry-out quality control tests on sentinel surveillance and
  national HIV sero-behavioral Surveys samples
• Carry-out support supervision of HIV testing sites
• Compile needs of testing sites for providing quality HIV test results
• Participate in carrying out training at the testing sites
• Undertake any other duties that may reasonably be assigned by the
  Laboratory Technologist or Laboratory Manager

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The applicant for the Laboratory Technician job must hold a Diploma
  in Medical Laboratory Technology.
• Currently registered with the Allied Health Professionals Council.
• Two years of working experience in a biomedical laboratory and / or
  in an HIV drug resistance laboratory. The experience should have included
  quality control responsibilities.
• Knowledge of MS office packages including Excel.

How to Apply:

Applications
together with copies of academic certificates, transcripts, a CV, including
names of two work-related referees indicating their contacts with emails and
phone numbers should be forwarded to the address below:

The Director,

Uganda Virus
Research Institute,

P.O. BOX 49,
Entebbe, Uganda

Or hand deliver to
his office Plot 51-59, Nakiwogo Road, Entebbe.

Deadline: 10^th September 2019 by 5:00pm

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