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 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
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.
Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one basic salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly basic salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary.
Application Deadline: January 16, 2020
Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: House: 451 , Road: 8 West, DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka-1206; Head Quarter: 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1280 Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered 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 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.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.
Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org
Category: NGO/Development
