{"id":58450,"date":"2021-06-18T16:21:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T16:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=58450"},"modified":"2021-06-18T16:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T16:21:16","slug":"fhi-360-recruitment-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/fhi-360-recruitment-2021.html","title":{"rendered":"fhi 360 Recruitment 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The position will be based in Accra, Ghana and will involve in-country travel. Administrative and technical responsibilities include working with the global and regional leadership, in-country partners and US-CDC to implement agreed upon strategies to enhance laboratory networks as well as the broader surveillance systems, and capacity building of the detection of COVID-19 and other priority diseases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title: Laboratory Technical Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Key Responsibilities Administrative Responsibilities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides administrative support to technical components of country-level project activities.<\/li>\n<li>Contributes to a variety of financial, administrative and logistics support needs as requested by the project.<\/li>\n<li>Contributes to the annual work planning and budgeting processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technical Responsibilities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides technical assistance to project staff to implement\u00a0<span class=\"WKJ2\">activities\/interventions<\/span>\u00a0to support enhancements in support of the country national action plan for health security and improve JEE scores.<\/li>\n<li>Participates in the implementation of in-country laboratory enhancement activities.<\/li>\n<li>Supports national stakeholders in developing or updating national laboratory strategic plans, SOPs and policies.<\/li>\n<li>Provides technical support based upon expertise with laboratory system strengthening, methods and strategies, current best practices, and established laboratory and operational standards while also being locally relevant and sustainable.<\/li>\n<li>Helps build capacity in local laboratory stakeholders and leaders to identify and oversee enhancements in laboratory networks.<\/li>\n<li>Provides support and training to facilities as part of overall capacity building and continuous improvement programs.<\/li>\n<li>Assists in writing and revising laboratory SOP\u2019s and other laboratory documents.<\/li>\n<li>Provides technical support to improve laboratory systems to support surveillance of infectious diseases.<\/li>\n<li>Will be required to work with a diverse group of national organizations including the Government and other diagnostic network leaders, development partners, other regional and global project staff and local CDC staff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Minimum Requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A minimum of a BSc in biological or laboratory science or an equivalent with a specialty in microbiology, virology or immunology.<\/li>\n<li>At least five years of experience in laboratory strengthening and capacity building.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of infectious disease outbreaks and experience in the diagnosis of infectious diseases including COVID-19 and specific hands-on diagnostics experience.<\/li>\n<li>Competent in current diagnostic methods for infectious diseases including point-of-care tests and molecular methods.<\/li>\n<li>Experience in developing or updating national laboratory strategic plans, SOPs, policies and guidelines.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge and experience with strengthening laboratories to achieve international quality standards including against ISO 15189 and\/or SLMTA\/SLIPTA.<\/li>\n<li>Familiarity with GHSA Action Packages and IHR (2005) core capacities<\/li>\n<li>Understanding of evidence-based priority actions based on JEE and National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) to improve health security.<\/li>\n<li>Awareness of the mechanisms and strategies that are being deployed under the GHSA and other similar mechanisms to combat emerging infectious threats.<\/li>\n<li>Sound knowledge and experience in clinical diagnostics (on-the-bench experience), laboratory networks and quality management systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The position will be based in Accra, Ghana and will involve in-country travel. 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