Technical Officer-Service

Job Description

Title: Technical Officer-Service

Company Name: Dhaka Ahsania Mission, Health Sector

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Gazipur (Tongi)

Salary: Tk. 72000 (Monthly)

Experience:

Published: 2025-01-07

Application Deadline: 2025-01-14

Education:

• MBBS Degree from any recognized public or private medical institute in and abroad.
• Registered with Bangladesh Medical and Dental Association-BMDC

• At least 2 years’ clinical experience, working experiences in HIV or in study work related to HIV field will give preference.       

• Good technical and managerial skills on efficiency to carry out research based intervention. 

Job Context:

Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) is a non-government development organization founded in 1958 by Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, an eminent educationist, reformer and Sufi with the aim of social and spiritual development of the entire human community. DAM has been contributing to the betterment of the disadvantaged population through operating 35 institutions and also 8 sectors of development. The health & WASH Sector is one of the core sectors of DAM which has also been operating 8 institutions and 17 projects.

DAM Health & WASH Sector is going to recruit a competent and self-motivated individual for the position of “Officer-Finance& Admin” of its “Prioritized HIV prevention services for key populations in Bangladesh, Comprehensive prevention programs for people who inject drugs (PWID) and their partners” Project under DAM Health and WASH Sector funded by The Global Fund.

Job Responsibility:

• Ensure eligible OST clients screening based on defined criteria of inclusion and exclusion, stated in the project proposal.
• Ensure physical screening and necessary lab test for OST clients.
• Ensure sorting and listing all the primarily selected clients who are not fit for MMT immediately or not accommodated in all at a time but will undergo for MMT after minimize their physical complexity and availability of space to enrollment new clients.
• Determine methadone dose of individual OST client through physical examination and others laboratory diagnosis like urine test as well as considering behavioral data of the client.
• Prescribe additional drugs for the client as and when require.
• Planning and follow-up of critical clients.
• Referral of critical clients for proper management.
• Follow-up & monitoring of daily consumption of methadone at services center.
• Day to day maintenance of stock status.
• Ensure the Infection Prevention Systems are in place and practiced properly by all medical personnel and other related staffs in the OST site.
• Ensure WHO staging to identify eligible ARV client and ensure ARV for each ILWHA and make available ARV for each eligible ILWHA.
• Provide clinical service for HIV positive PWID including ARV, OIs management, GH as needed.
• Conduct nutritional assessment for each ILWHA and ensure their nutrition support as per guideline.
• Provide OJT, conduct clinical training sessions.
• Ensure day to day monitoring and supportive supervision for the assigned staff i.e Counselor, Pharmacist/ Dispenser.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, feedback, direction and necessary guidance to the Counselor and Pharmacist/ Dispenser in order to effectively and efficiently perform their assigned roles and responsibilities.
• Staff development and Performance Management.
• Provide technical support for Pharmacist/ Dispenser and SACMO.
• Participate in hiring skilled staff as and when necessary.
• Ensure collection of appropriate behavioral data of PWID under OST as standard tools and techniques of the OST intervention including ART and HCV.
• Ensure regular supervision, monitoring, and follow-up of data collection in the OST site.
• Ensure necessary record keeping as set tools / techniques, prepare monthly/ quarterly/ need base report as required by the study process.
• Document and disseminate study findings, learning with key agency. Stakeholders as and when required.
• Ensure effective communication, coordination and collaboration especially with relevant OST team and other relevant stakeholders and counterpart.
• Participate in different national, international and local level meeting, training, workshop, seminar/symposium related to OST operation in Bangladesh.
• Develop strategic paper, concept note, presentation, briefing paper, key note, abstract for DAM OST intervention, ILWHA, Clinical Training.
• Participate any assignment of the GFPWID project or DAM Mission management as and when needed.
• Internalize and practice DAM core values and principles, promote appropriate organizational culture and be role models for other in the team.