Title: National Consultant (Consultancy for Supporting National Oxygen Capacity Building in Bangladesh)
Company Name: E-Zone HRM Limited
Vacancy: 01
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Qualifications can include a medical degree, masters in public health, masters in social sciences, bio medical engineering and other relevant areas
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 8 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Duty Station: Dhaka (Nationwide)
∎ Contract Duration: 75 days spreading over 5 months
∎ Contract Type: Contract with E-Zone
∎ Contract Start Date: 15 August, 2021
∎ Reporting to: Health Manager
∎ Objectives: The objective of this consultancy is to contribute to supporting the national oxygen capacity building and oxygen security in country through the finalization of the National Medical Oxygen Plan for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) and its implementation and monitoring.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ The Consultant will be engaged to support one or several of the following priority activities:
∎ Bringing together all the key data elements on oxygen in the country to understand ad finalize the Oxygen Landscape report.
∎ Complete a needs assessment towards understanding the national and sub national capacities towards the rational use of oxygen with the MOHFW and key stakeholders.
∎ Provide technical assistance to develop the "National Medical Oxygen Plan" of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOH&FW) based on the national oxygen landscape.
∎ Provide technical assistance to the MOHFW in-terms of policy framework to operationalize the "National Medical Oxygen Plan".
∎ Provide technical assistance to the MOHFW and DGHS to update the National Oxygen Guidelines, tools and modules for operationalizing the National Oxygen plan at service delivery platforms along with programme capacity building.
∎ Facilitate the development of operational guidelines for the programme managers and service providers for both building oxygen capacity and safe and rational use of medical oxygen for hypoxaemia management.
∎ Quality assurance process established for operations and maintenance of the oxygen supply system in selected hospitals as per national guidelines.
∎ Work with the current quality improvement interventions and synergize the tracking, monitoring, evaluating, and improving systems for oxygen provision and use case management at all levels of the healthcare system, through mentorship and supportive supervision.
∎ Support the HMIS team to integrate Oxygen indicators in the national HMIS (DHIS2) and dashboard and capacity building of the national HMIS team on data analytics for oxygen for decision making.
∎ Support exploring innovative ways of capacity building and mentoring on oxygen use including the digital platform and setting up regional hubs as well as mobile teams as needed.
∎ Support building a partnership framework for oxygen security in the country bringing together the public and private sector and all key stakeholders at national and sub national levels.
∎ Facilitate the finalization of a robust supply chain systems for oxygen including transportation, refilling and maintenance ensuring these are operationalized in country.
∎ Provide support to the oversight and tracking of the ongoing liquid medical oxygen work in 30 hospitals in the country and ensuring these hospitals have robust oxygen security systems in place.
∎ Provide support to all procurement ongoing and in the future for oxygen related equipment.
∎ Performs other tasks as assigned.
Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 8 years working experience in supporting programs that link with Oxygen systems, national policy, strategy and guidelines development on related health areas
∎ Preference will be for expertise and knowledge on conducting national oxygen capacity and need assessment, prior experience in working with oxygen related programs, developing national Oxygen plan for the Ministry of Health in a Lower Middle Income country
∎ Familiarity with Oxygen infrastructure and capacity building processes including standards for medical Oxygen gas pipelines system, i.e. LMO/VSA/PSA system including regulatory and safety compliance issues is an added asset
∎ Well versed in computer programmes like MS office
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 13 Aug 2021
Company Information:
∎ 12 Aug 2021
∎ E-Zone HRM Limited
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com