Focal Person for Program support and quality assurance

Job Description

Title: Focal Person for Program support and quality assurance

Company Name: Friendship

Vacancy: 1

Age: 30 to 35 years

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

Published: 2026-05-21

Application Deadline: 2026-05-27

Education:

Requirements:

Skills Required:

Additional Requirements:

• Age 30 to 35 years

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate community mobilization, screening, referral, surgery, and post-op follow-up of school children and women.

• Maintain updated case tracking sheets for screened, referred, operated, and followed-up cases.

• Supervise and support community volunteers, refractionists, MLOP nurses, and midwives during screening camps.

• Coordinate vision screening activities across schools, targeting children

• Coordinate with referral hospitals and surgical teams to ensure patient readiness.

• Facilitate pre- and post-op counseling, consent, transport, food/accommodation support.

• Ensure privacy, dignity, and psychosocial support for women undergoing POP/perineal tear surgery.

• Liaise with local education authorities, headmasters, and teachers for scheduling.

• Supervise refractionists, MLOPs, and mobilizers during school-based eye camps.

• Maintain MIS of children screened, spectacles prescribed, and complex cases referred.

• Support the logistical flow of spectacle distribution and hospital referral for advanced eye care.

• Engage caregivers and school focal persons for follow-up and compliance.

• Organize and facilitate community meeting, screening camp both for children and women of the community

• Organize and facilitate training and orientation

Performance Monitoring and Reporting:

• Submit weekly and monthly activity reports covering both components.

• Report service coverage, referral completion, and patient outcomes to the Project Manager.

• Coordinate with MEAL and Quality Assurance teams to address service gaps.

• Identify bottlenecks and propose real-time corrective actions.

Activities:

• Daily screenings during mobile eye camps as per the school calendar

• Maintain child-friendly, respectful communication

• Record findings, prescriptions, referrals, and lens orders on the project MIS

• Participate in feedback sessions and technical refreshers.

Skill and Competencies

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Public Health, Social Work, Nursing, Education, or Gender Studies.

• Master's preferred (MPH/MSS/MA in relevant field).

Experience Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of field-level coordination experience in SRHR, Eye Health, or Community Health projects.

• Prior experience in patient referral management or school health programs is highly desirable.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong leadership, planning, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Ability to manage simultaneous workstreams (pelvic and eye health).

• Familiarity with rural health systems and low-resource settings.

• Competency in using MS Excel, basic MIS tools, and Android-based data collection.

• Willingness to travel frequently and stay in remote char locations.

 Read Before Apply

Please note that applications via any other method will not be considered.

“FRIENDSHIP is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults, and employees, Donors, visiting Doctors, visiting Journalists, visitors, beneficiaries including communities where we work and volunteers/interns. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with, has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure fully include background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding. 

FRIENDSHIP is an equal opportunity employer and will do everything possible to ensure that those who are suitable to work within our values and beliefs are recruited to work for us. Any personal persuasion will result in a disqualification of candidature”.

A photograph must be enclosed with the resume.