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Job Title:    Diagnostic Officer

Organization: Malaria
Consortium

Duty Station: Uganda

Reports to: Regional
Coordinator

Salary: USD
15,629 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.

Job Summary:
The Diagnostic Officer will provide diagnostic technical and implementation
support to SURM project activities in districts in the region. The Diagnostics
Officer will provide technical and implementation support to the field-based
team and all field activities. They will ensure effective documentation of
project impact, as well as dissemination of learning from implementation and
operational research and will provide ongoing technical support to the
Sub-Recipients, Ministry of Health (MoH)/ National Malaria Control Programme
(NMCP) and other partners and stakeholders as relevant to the project scope and
in accordance with its approach to understanding and influencing positive
change. This role has an important capacity building function, which involves
working closely with all project’s partners.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Provide technical leadership and guidance for the Malaria laboratory
  diagnostic component of the project
• Work hand in hand with the team to manage the scope of work
  including creation and execution of work plans and revision as appropriate
  to comply with program milestones.
• Ensure that all program milestones are met through effective planning.
• Supervise and mentor project laboratory technologists, ensure
  effective support is given to districts and Regional Performance
  Monitoring Teams (RPMTS) to successfully build capacity for malaria
  laboratory diagnosis and External Quality Control and External Quality
  Assurance.
• Ensures compliance with all grant requirements; ensure that
  activities are executed according to pre-established guidelines and
  standard operating procedures.
• Link directly with the National Malaria Control Program laboratory
  diagnostic focal person to ensure diagnostic activities are aligned with
  the national malaria diagnostic plans.
• Lead the planning and actual delivery of EQA & QC, training and
  mentoring activities for laboratory personnel in supported districts.
• Represent MC in various meetings related to malaria control in
  Uganda.
• Lead activities involved in quantifying malaria laboratory
  diagnostic supplies and reagents.
• Lead the process of developing the technical content for the SMS
  based support to laboratory personnel.
• Generate periodic programmatic reports on program activities and
  advancement toward milestones.

Other
responsibilities

• Perform other tasks assigned by the supervisors Program Manager and
  Regional Coordinator
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of the program
• Optimize the project’s visibility among other stakeholders and the
  development community at large

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant for the Malaria Consortium Diagnostic Officer job
  opportunity should hold a university degree/diploma in Medical lab
  technologist with public health degree/diploma.
• 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
• Fluent in both oral and written English
• Good analytical skills

Desirable

• Thorough understanding of both preventive and curative aspects of
  malaria control
• Familiarity with the strategies and guidelines of the Uganda
  National Malaria  Control Programme
• Experience in training of health workers
• Experience in using participatory adult learning techniques
• Excellent organization skills
• Knowledge of Acholi, Lango or Karamajong language

How to Apply:

All interested
applicants are encouraged to apply online at the web link below.

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Deadline: 20^th September 2019

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