Programme Organiser (Malaria Elimination) BRAC Health Programme (Project Staff)

Job Description

Title: Programme Organiser (Malaria Elimination) BRAC Health Programme (Project Staff)

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

Published: 2025-10-14

Application Deadline: 2025-10-25

Education:

• Bachelor/Honors

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

With the support of The Global Fund, the BRAC Health Programme has been implementing theMalaria Elimination Project for more than two decades in collaboration with the NationalMalaria Elimination Programme (NMEP). BRAC works with a people-centered approach acrossrural areas in 13 malaria-endemic districts of the country. The aim of this initiative is to achievethe elimination of malaria from Bangladesh by 2030, aligning with Bangladesh`s sustainabledevelopment goals. This endeavor encompasses various strategies, including malariadiagnosis, treatment, referral services, community mobilization and awareness campaigns, aswell as the distribution of insecticidal treated nets (ITNs) to populations at risk of malaria.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Communication and coordination with upazila/district health staff as well as community leaders and Informal health care providers

• Ensure the referral, transportation and initiation of treatment of complicated patients to the upazila health complex or other government health facilities through coordination with local health staff.

• Prepare monthly action plan according to Malaria and TB programme guideline to oversee programme implementation in assigned areas

• Perform community mobilization for active case finding, organize outreach centers, collection of samples and transport them to the nearby facilities for Xpert/ Truenat/ Microscopy testing

• Perform contact investigation (CI) of bacteriologically-confirmed pulmonary TB patients (both DS-TB and DR-TB)

• Refer contacts of index cases to the physician for screening the eligibility of TPT and ensure enrolment

• Ensure distribution of drug, diagnostics and Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) to the targeted community and social support for eligible TB patients

• Follow-up of each patient and ensuring their visit to the physician after detected with TB and update the status as well as ensure DOT at the community.

• Organize social behavior change (SBC) events to the assigned area and proper record keeping

• Ensure monthly report from health provider timely, and send to respective channel and online portal as per guideline

• Practice and promote BRAC Gender Policy. Support implementation of gender equality and women empowerment at all levels.

SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 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.

• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Festival Bonus, Health and Life Insurance, and others as per policy