Coupon manager

Required Number ----One per site (Bahir Dar, Mekele, Gambella, Gondar, Addis Ababa, Hawassa, Adama, Dire Dawa). These sites could be amended depending on survey demand or other situations.

Duration of Contract: For 3 months, with possibility of extension.

Report to: TB & HIV Research Directorate

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

·  Manage the coupon-tracking system

·  Explain the aim of survey to participant; conduct and record consent

·  Provide instructions/train on peer recruitment and issue referral coupons

·  Ask screening questions to the target population to identify eligible participant and disqualify imposters

·   Establish a unique identifier to link recruit’s follow-up visit to initial visit Verify coupon work as the receptionist or interviewer as needed – Eligibility questions

• Maintain the database for data entry, editing, and analysis for electronic-based data collection
• Work closely with data management team and survey staffs

Required skill

· Experience in data, cleaning, preparation and management

·  Have prior experience on respondent driven sampling (RDS) coupon management

• Excellent data organization, programming, and communication skills are required, as is the ability to work effectively in a team setting.

· Proficient knowledge of database software (particularly excel and access)

·  Proven experience in designing survey tools/questionnaires in ODK is advantageous

• Fluency in local language is a major advantage.

Required educational Qualification

·  BSc or above in bioinformatics, health informatics, computer science or information technology and having experiences in designing and management of data base and health information and having of 6+ years demonstrated work experience.