Medical Technologist, Lab (TB Control), BRAC Health Programme (Project staff)

Job Description

Title: Medical Technologist, Lab (TB Control), BRAC Health Programme (Project staff)

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

Published: 2025-10-08

Application Deadline: 2025-10-18

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Responsibilities & Context:

BRAC is an international development organization founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realize potential.

With the support of The Global Fund, BRAC Health Programme has been implementing TB Control Project for more than three decades in collaboration with National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP). BRAC works in a people-centered approach across rural and urban areas of the country with the aim to ensure prevention, early diagnosis and treatment adherence of tuberculosis through community engagement and Public-Private Mix (PPM) activities so that TB related healthcare services can be widely accessible and affordable to every individual.

Major Responsibilities:

• Perform mWRDs/ Microscopy testing for presumptive and ongoing TB patients.

• Perform HIV and COVID-19 screening of TB patients.

• Maintain essential safety precautions during sample collection, while working in the lab and during disposal of potentially infectious materials (waste management).

• Ensure quality assurance of reagents and other health products.

• Conduct outreach center for sample collection.

• Keep record and prepare proper necessary reports (i.e., ASPECT, e-TB Manager, TBCP software etc.) timely.

• Reconcile both physical stock with register and TBCP software.

• Assure regular indent, supply of reagents and other logistics, proper storage and ensure maintenance of GeneXpert/ Truenat/ Microscope with proper documentation (i.e., logbook etc.).

• Extensive visits to the peripheral labs and guidance for better improvement (for EQA staff).

• Quality assurance of the random slides and provide feedback report to the respective laboratories in a regular basis (for EQA staff).

• 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.

Festival Bonus, Health and Life Insurance, Maternity/ Paternity Leave and others as per policy.