Data Collectors

Job Description

Employment type: Contractual

Place of work: Field work in any part of Ethiopia

Duration: Three months (with possibility of extension)

Required number: 60

Gender: Female /Male 

Report to: Nutrition, Environmental Health, and Non-communicable Disease Research Directorate

Monthly Salary: 20,000.00 Birr

Program Description

Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Vital Strategies, is planning to conduct a national baseline survey on Blood Lead Levels and associated risk factors among children aged 6 to 59 months and women of reproductive age. The purpose of this baseline survey is to generate national, urban-rural, and regional estimates of Blood lead level (BLL) among children 6 to 59 months of age and Women of reproductive age (WRA) residing in households with an eligible child, which can then be used to scale up the efforts to include other target populations. The findings will also provide evidence to guide future surveillance, policy development, and public health interventions. Therefore, EPHI calls for qualified health professionals to apply for the data collectors’ position.

Major duties and responsibilities:

• Actively participate and successfully complete field team training
• Read the enumeration area map and delineate the survey area
• Conduct eligible study participant listing
• Collect survey data following study protocol and principles of ethical data collection
• Provide appropriate information to study participants before specimen collection.
• Perform venous blood collection safely and professionally
• Accurately identify, label, handle, and maintain the integrity of collected specimens in accordance with laboratory procedures.
• Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality
• Report incidents, injuries, or unsafe field conditions immediately to the team leader
• Apply infection prevention and control measures, occupational safety practices, and proper waste management procedures.
• Review each completed questionnaire for completeness before leaving the respondent's house.
• Ensure the quality of the collected data.
• Upload data to server using handheld devices
• Ensure timely and safe storage and transportation of collected specimens
• Manage the inventory and proper storage of reagents and supplies utilized in the field
• Stay at the assigned study site until the survey completion period
• Report all best practices and challenges to the team leader

Job Requirements

• BSc degree or above in Medical Laboratory, Nursing, Health officer or any health-related field
• Two years of professional experience
• Current professional registration or license, if required locally.
• Experience in Enumeration areas mapping and household listing
• Experience in survey data collection using a handheld device
• Experience in blood sample collection, especially with under-five children, is an advantage.
• Must be in good health as the field work may demand extensive travel on rough roads
• Willingness to take on additional responsibilities
• Able to work in stressful situation
• Must be willing to work in any assigned parts of the country.
• Knowledge of the Ethiopian healthcare system

Requirement Skill

• Good interpersonal communication
• Team spirit

Duty station/location:

• The selected candidate will be assigned to any regions and re-assigned to other regions as necessary.

Language: 

• Fluency in one or more local language is an advantage.

Note  Interested applicants can register in Online through only   https://ats.ethiojobs.net send their CVs and relevant documents at the address given below within 07 days from the first appearance of the announcement

Ethiopian Public Health Institute

Remarks: Please attach copies of transcripts, academic degree, work experience  letters together with the application. If not attached the copies you may be not short listed.