Assistance Project Coordinator

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Place: EPHI

Duration of Contract: For 4months, with possibility of extension.

Background

Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) is a national organization mandated to manage, build research capacity, and promote and strengthen public health research activities in the country. The institute also synthesizes comprehensive health-related data and evidence that public health-related decision-making relies on. Currently, EPHI, in collaboration with partners, is planning to conduct the HIV Bio-Behavioral survey among Female Sex Workers (FSW) in Ethiopia.

As part of implementing the study, the EPHI would like to announce a vacancy for competent and interested individuals for the following posts. The qualified individual will be functioning in collaboration with a member of the HIV survey team.

Duties and responsibilities

• Conceptualize and manage a nationally representative multisite complex survey
• Carry out key survey activities such as coordinating, coaching and supervising field team, ensuring the quality of data, conduct data cleaning, and interpreting and reporting of findings
• Maintain and monitor the data collection process and adjust the system to operational activities’ needs with continued support
• Conduct direct supervision to the field staff at site level
• Oversee daily site activities and sure that the study is conducted as the protocol guidelines
• Prepare weekly report and update the project progress to central office at EPHI
• Work with the coupon manager to ensure safety of the data stored in the electronic coupon tracking system, as well as exported to backup flash drive.
• Forward data stored in the electronic coupon tracking system to the data manager in the head office weekly
• Conduct data management and transmission
• Manage stocks at site level and order materials to be purchased or delivered from central (EPHI):

Required skills

·         Demonstrated experience in providing training on the quantitative research method

·         Demonstrated experience in conducting in-depth interview and focused group discussion

• Excellent data organization, programming, communication skills and ability to work effectively in a team setting are required
• Profound knowledge and experience in conducting Bio-behavioral survey including, development of the survey tools, training research staff, supervising, and writing analytical reports as well as interpreting data and making recommendations;
• Experience in the area of HIV Key/priority population survey, and/or programmatic response
• Prior experience in coordinating a study using respondent driven sampling technique.

·  PhD/MPH/MSc in the fields of Public Health, and having of 4years (for PhD ) and  8+ years for MPH/MSc, demonstrated experiences in designing and executing qualitative and quantitative study and analyzing qualitative data, technical report and manuscript writing . Having a laboratory background is an asset.