Job Description
Title: Field Organiser (TB Control), BRAC Health Programme (Project staff)
Company Name: BRAC.
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Graduation in any discipline
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Prepare monthly work-plan to implementing programmatic interventions accordingly.
∎ Perform community mobilization for ACF (active case finding), organize outreach centers, collection of samples and transport them to the nearby facilities for Xpert/ Truenat/ Microscopy testing including re-testing of microscopy positive cases.
∎ Ensure treatment initiation, regular follow-up of ongoing patients and ensure quality DOT by monitoring Shasthya Shebika/ DOT provider/ community health workers and referral of retreatment cases for Xpert/ Truenat testing.
∎ Perform contact investigation (CI) of bacteriologically-confirmed pulmonary TB patients (both DS-TB and DR-TB) and refer them to the physician for screening the eligibility of TPT and ensure enrolment.
∎ Guide community health workers/ volunteers to identify Child TB presumptive in the community and refer them to the facilities for testing.
∎ Ensure HIV screening of TB patients in the respective working area.
∎ Ensure ambulatory treatment initiation at community level as early as possible in coordination with UH&FPO and MODC.
∎ Organize/ conduct courtyard meetings, TB campaigns, special outreach centers for key and vulnerable population, refreshers training for Shasthya Shebika/ DOT providers for proper TB presumptive identification and quality DOT.
∎ Update private sector mapping including formal and informal healthcare facilities/ providers and visit them in a regular basis to enhance presumptive and case referral.
∎ Ensure distribution of drugs and incentive for Shasthya Shebika/ DOT providers and social support for eligible TB presumptive and patients.
∎ Maintain regular coordination, communication, liaison with upazila/ union level stakeholders including HA, HI, CHCP etc.
∎ Contribute in preparation of monthly/ quarterly reports and submit in due time.
∎ Practice and promote organization’s gender policy and support implementation of gender equality and women empowerment at all levels.
∎ Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organization and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme's goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age 18 to 50 years
∎ Have knowledge on community mobilization
∎ Excellent computer skills- MS Office
∎ Have skills on communication and presentation
∎ Have skills on organizing and planning
∎ Have skills on local networking and relationship building
∎ Person with disability are encouraged to apply
Salary: Negotiable
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus, Health and Life Insurance, Maternity/ Paternity Leave and others as per policy.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 13 Dec 2023
Company Information:
∎ 4 Dec 2023
∎ BRAC.
∎ Address : BRAC
75 Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
∎ Business : brac is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.
Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.
Category: NGO/Development
: BRAC believes that everyone we work with including our staff, programme participants, partners, and the communities have the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). We uphold human dignity and inclusion for all, regardless of age, race, religion, gender, disability, ethnic origin, or socio-economic condition. As an equal-opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from gender-diverse individuals and people with disabilities.Selected candidates will have to go through a rigorous reference and background checking process which may include police verification.
