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• Working with stakeholders, periodically
  assess the training needs for facility laboratory staff and recommend
  appropriate trainings to improve their knowledge and skills
• Working with other RHITES EC technical
  officers, coordinate and supervise the laboratory renovation process,
  ensuring that the desired laboratory standards are met and duplication of
  effort and resources is avoided
• Work closely with respective health care
  facility teams and other partners to develop/strengthen and ensure
  efficiency of systems for transporting test samples and results to and
  from referral laboratories
• Keenly review the laboratory Strengthening
  needs assessment report and plan, and together with various stakeholders,
  rationalize what additional equipment may be needed, including maintenance
  and servicing systems in place, and/or may be needed in each laboratory
• Closely working with appropriate MOH
  departments, National ware houses for laboratory supplies and individual
  facilities to ensure that HIV related laboratory test supplies and
  reagents, are well managed
• Ensuring there are systems and standard
  operating procedures for preventative maintenance of equipment in
  supported facilities
• Take lead of an RHITES-EC supported
  process and activities to develop and implement a sustainability plan for
  laboratory services for individual facilities with respect to, among other
  areas: capability to provide their own HIV-related laboratory services,
  strengthened capacity of laboratory personnel and equipment maintenance
• Take part in the implementation of quality
  Improvement activities related to laboratory services to improve
  efficiency and the quality of laboratory test results
• Work closely with other stakeholders to ensure
  that the supported laboratories improve their services towards meeting the
  requirements for WHO accreditation
• Prepare and submit regular progress
  reports
• Perform any other duties assigned by the
  supervisor

• The ideal candidate for the USAID
  RHITES-EC Project Laboratory Systems Strengthening Advisor career
  opportunity should preferably hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Laboratory
  Science or equivalent degree qualification
• Additional post-graduate
  qualifications/training will be of added advantage
• A minimum of three years of demonstrable
  practical experience with managing HIV laboratory programs and laboratory
  commodities
• Comprehensive knowledge of the current
  approaches in the field of adult and paediatric HIV prevention, care,
  treatment and monitoring laboratory services set-up and delivery desired
• Working knowledge in quality improvement
  approaches desired
• Excellent written and oral communication
  and interpersonal skills desired
• Computer literacy i.e. proficiency with
  Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook, and others) desired

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