Disease Surveillance and Reporting Officer
Job Description
Title: Disease Surveillance and Reporting Officer
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ A degree in Epidemiology, Public Health, Statistics or a related Social Science field.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ The Disease Surveillance Officer is responsible for providing technical leadership and assistance of disease surveillance activities throughout the implementation of planned projects and act as key focal person in case of emergency outbreak responses, such as cholera response. As part of the HIS team, they will be responsible for all inputs into the Disease Early Warning System (DEWS), ensuring that staff are properly trained to identify and report the flagged diseases. In the case of a potential outbreak, the DSRO will oversee a cadre of data collectors to conduct surveillance activities and help inform an intervention strategy. They will review and revise surveillance training manuals to maintain consistency with national disease surveillance protocols and guidelines. The Disease Surveillance Officer will continuously train and work closely with staff to ensure standards of practice are followed and case definitions are known and used to monitor disease trends.
∎ Duty Station: Ukhiya, Bangladesh
∎ Report To: DSRO Supervisor
∎ Expected Start Date: At Earliest
∎ Contract length: Up to 31st December, 2022 (With possibility of Extension subject to funding, program needs and performance of incumbent)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Organize epidemiological data in support of RI’s program objectives.
∎ Travel to the field with mobile teams to provide quality assurance checks on data collected.
∎ Advise the RI team on epidemiological matters that arise during implementation, and when necessary devise new data collection tools to meet epidemiological/disease surveillance needs.
∎ Develop systems to ensure collection of medical information during early program design/start-up phases and re-evaluation of tools throughout the program cycle.
∎ Completing entry, aggregation, and compilation of data and submission to relevant stakeholders.
∎ Organize collection/analysis of medical data for activity reports.
∎ Build the capacity of the registrar and other medical staff on data collection.
∎ Attend trainings and information sessions pertaining to data collection and information management tools.
∎ Support other departments with data collection needs as needed.
∎ Any Other task assigned by supervisor.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Two years of experience working in a similar position with data collection.
∎ Experience developing and managing data collection systems for disease surveillance.
∎ Ability to train and supervise staff and prioritize competing tasks.
∎ Good English language skills a must.
∎ Knowledge of and experience using data collection tools.
∎ Person with disability are encouraged to apply
Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance.
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one Gross salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly Gross salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 3 Oct 2022
Company Information:
∎ 27 Sep 2022
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: Apt- D2, House- 39 (Sheltech Sunshine), Road-37, Gulshan-2, Dhaka- 1212 I Bangladesh.
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, headquartered in USA, is a leading international non-government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International (RI) has been working in Bangladesh since 2004, implementing programs covering emergency response, health, economic opportunity, trafficking in persons, gender equality and youth empowerment. RI has been present in Cox’s Bazar since 2014 where it was implementing a trafficking in persons project in Ukhiya and Teknaf supporting old caseload refugees as well as host communities prior to the large-scale influx. Since 2017, RI has scaled up its operations in Cox’s Bazar to support the emergency response by providing integrated, multi-sectoral programming for refugee and host communities, covering health services, including a 132 bed COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Center in Ukhiya, child protection, SGBV, complimentary food and livelihoods opportunities to support social cohesion. Relief International is currently implementing a large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, WFP, USAID.RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Category: NGO/Development
: Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. We encourage diversity and disability inclusion in our team.RI Bangladesh has a non-negotiable policy of ZERO TOLERANCE towards Safeguarding. All employees are expected to abide by the Code of Conduct, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) ,Child Protection Policy and Human Trafficking Policy of Relief International.You may check our website at www.ri.org to know about our organization.
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 3rd Oct 2022
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