Disease Surveillance & Reporting Officer (COVID - 19 Response)

Job Description

Title: Disease Surveillance & Reporting Officer (COVID - 19 Response)

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, or a related field

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ The Disease Surveillance & Reporting Officer will be responsible for organizing RI`s health program data and information/data in Cox`s Bazar, Bangladesh. RI is in the process of establishing mobile health units and expanding mobile health coverage to new arrivals in Cox`s Bazar. This position will be responsible for managing data and information collection for health activities. Prior experience with developing data collection systems during program start-up and/or for mobile health services is highly prioritized.
∎ Reporting to: Medical in Charge
∎ Department: Health
∎ Expected Start Date: ASAP
∎ Contract length: Up to December 31, 2020.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Organize RI's epidemiological data management objectives in the project.
∎ Travel to the field with mobile teams to provide quality assurance checks on data collected
∎ Advise the RI team on epidemiological matters that arise in the course of 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
∎ Support entry, aggregation, and compilation of data
∎ Organize collection/analysis of medical data for activity reports. Train the registrar and other medical staff on preparing these reports.
∎ Support other departments with data collection needs as needed

Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Experience developing and managing data collection systems for disease surveillance
∎ Ability to train and supervise staff and prioritize competing tasks
∎ Local knowledge of Chittagonian required; knowledge of Rohingya an asset.

Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays
∎ 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: April 11, 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