Job Description

Title: Junior Field Research Assistant

Company Name: RTM International

Vacancy: 10

Location: Dhaka

Minimum Salary: Negotiable

Experience:
∎ At least 2 years

Published: 15 Feb 2024

Education:
∎ Minimum graduate from any reputed college / university

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 2-years of experience in the related field
∎ Following capabilities are mandatory:
∎ Working experience in the relevant field will be an asset
∎ Good communication skills

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Attending a 14-day randomized controlled trial training.
∎ Attending monthly refresher trainings.
∎ Entering the collected data in the study database.
∎ Entering all paper forms into the study database within a week of data collection.
∎ Screening and recruiting suspected cholera cases at health facilities.
∎ Conducting stool testing for cholera using the rapid VC Dipstick test.
∎ Obtaining informed consent, assent, and/or parental permission from for all study participants.
∎ Putting barcodes on all study form, consent, assent, and parental permission forms, and water, blood, and fecal samples PRIOR to data and sample collection.
∎ Conducting searching for the eligible compounds where the cholera patients live.
∎ Enrolling eligible diarrhea and cholera patients, and administering baseline study questionnaires.
∎ Conducting household spot checks and structured observations.
∎ Enrolling eligible household members of cholera and diarrhea patients in the health facility and in their household and administering the baseline questionnaire.
∎ Conducting blood and fecal sample collection in the health facility and in the household.
∎ Administering clinical surveillance forms and mobile use survey to study participants.
∎ Conducting water sample collection at study households.
∎ Collecting blood samples from study participants.
∎ Testing water samples for chlorine concentrations.
∎ Obtaining height, weight and MUAC measurements of study children.
∎ Obtaining GPS locations of households and water sources.
∎ Checking all study forms collected for completeness.
∎ Returning to study participants (in the household or health facility) to complete missing or erroneous data collected. This includes responding to all queries sent by the study data manager.
∎ Attending weekly field team meetings with the evaluation and intervention team.
∎ Attending weekly meetings with the evaluation team only.
∎ Coding open ended questions for knowledge, handwashing, and water treatment questions.
∎ Conducting in-depth interviews and focus group discussions.
∎ Transcribing and translating in-depth interviews and focus group discussions.
∎ Coding in-depth interviews and focus group discussions conducted.
∎ Assisting in any other aspects of the pilot and intervention studies as directed by the Project Coordinator, Intervention Coordinator, or Principal Investigator.
∎ This position will sometimes include work early in the morning and late in the evenings and on Saturdays and Sundays.
∎ RTM International is going to appoint a number of skilled professionals for the study titled “A Ring Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Intervention to Reduce Cholera in Hotspots in Bangladesh (Urban Model)”. The required qualification and experiences for the position is given below:
∎ You are kindly requested to fill-up your details information by Click on this link / Copy this link in to the browser address bar, login by your Gmail account and submit your information:
∎ https://forms.gle/ox7okfxNvaHuGCSS6.
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∎ Job Responsibilities:
∎ Attending a 14-day randomized controlled trial training.
∎ Attending monthly refresher trainings.
∎ Entering the collected data in the study database.
∎ Entering all paper forms into the study database within a week of data collection.
∎ Screening and recruiting suspected cholera cases at health facilities.
∎ Conducting stool testing for cholera using the rapid VC Dipstick test.
∎ Obtaining informed consent, assent, and/or parental permission from for all study participants.
∎ Putting barcodes on all study form, consent, assent, and parental permission forms, and water, blood, and fecal samples PRIOR to data and sample collection.
∎ Conducting searching for the eligible compounds where the cholera patients live.
∎ Enrolling eligible diarrhea and cholera patients, and administering baseline study questionnaires.
∎ Conducting household spot checks and structured observations.
∎ Enrolling eligible household members of cholera and diarrhea patients in the health facility and in their household and administering the baseline questionnaire.
∎ Conducting blood and fecal sample collection in the health facility and in the household.
∎ Administering clinical surveillance forms and mobile use survey to study participants.
∎ Conducting water sample collection at study households.
∎ Collecting blood samples from study participants.
∎ Testing water samples for chlorine concentrations.
∎ Obtaining height, weight and MUAC measurements of study children.
∎ Obtaining GPS locations of households and water sources.
∎ Checking all study forms collected for completeness.
∎ Returning to study participants (in the household or health facility) to complete missing or erroneous data collected. This includes responding to all queries sent by the study data manager.
∎ Attending weekly field team meetings with the evaluation and intervention team.
∎ Attending weekly meetings with the evaluation team only.
∎ Coding open ended questions for knowledge, handwashing, and water treatment questions.
∎ Conducting in-depth interviews and focus group discussions.
∎ Transcribing and translating in-depth interviews and focus group discussions.
∎ Coding in-depth interviews and focus group discussions conducted.
∎ Assisting in any other aspects of the pilot and intervention studies as directed by the Project Coordinator, Intervention Coordinator, or Principal Investigator.
∎ This position will sometimes include work early in the morning and late in the evenings and on Saturdays and Sundays.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Daily Charge Basis
∎ As an organization policy

Employment Status: Contractual

Job Location: Dhaka

Read Before Apply:

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RTM International has Policy regarding Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Gender Policy, Child Protection Policy. Organization has Policy of Zero Tolerance regarding this issue. Candidates having knowledge on PSEA will be preferred. Female candidates are encouraging to apply.

### Application Instruction ###

Interested candidates are requested to apply to the Director (Administration), RTM International, 581, Shewrapara, Mirpur, Dhaka-1216 by submit your details in "Employment Application Form" by click on this link or copy this link in to the browser address bar, login by your Gmail account and submit your information: https://forms.gle/ox7okfxNvaHuGCSS6.

Upload your CV along with a cover letter, academic and experience certificates, training and certifications, NID and other relevant documents in one file by PDF or Doc file (The file size must be under 10 MB). File name should be as [ Position name-your name-date ... such as "Project Coordinator-karim-cv and certificates", etc.) on or before 21 February 2024.

Only short-listed candidates will be called for interview.

No TA/DA will be provided for attending the interview.

Director (Administration)

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