Requirements

Additional Requirements

• Age at most 35 years

• Minimum 01-year experience in the relevant field.

Knowledge:

• AFB microscopy/ Xpert MTB RIF/ Truant

• Knowledge about GeneXpert, Truant, light and LED microscope

• Organizational Values, Vision, Mission and Policies

Skills:

• Computer skills– MS Office

• Communication skills

• Multi-tasking ability

• Reporting skills

Competencies:

• Communication and Coordination with stakeholders

• Team oriented

• Analytical ability

• Time management

Responsibilities & Context

Concerned Women for Family Development (CWFD) emerged from a humanitarian response in 1975 to help women in need of reproductive health care and counseling. Gradually, it became a registered organization and implemented various projects with support from different development partners in many areas of Bangladesh. Its vision is to empower women, youths, and adolescents to achieve gender equality and social justice within family and society. The CWFD’s mission is to support, promote, and protect the interests of women in Bangladesh by providing community-based health care, empowering underprivileged adolescents and youth, helping to provide legal support to girls and women- who are victims of domestic violence, and developing human resources for positive social changes. Currently, CWFD is implementing a project named Integrated TB Care and Prevention, which is funded by Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis Malaria through BRAC.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform mWRDs/ Microscopy testing for presumptive and ongoing TB patients

• Perform HIV and COVID-19 screening of TB patients

• Maintain essential safety precautions during sample collection, while working in the lab and during disposal of potentially infectious materials (waste management)

• Ensure quality assurance of reagents and other health products

• Conduct outreach center for sample collection

• Keep recording and preparing proper necessary reports (i.e., ASPECT, e-TB Manager, TBCP software etc.) timely

• Reconcile both physical stock with register and TBCP software

• Assure regular indent, supply of reagents and other logistics, proper storage and ensure maintenance of GeneXpert/ Truant/ Microscope with proper documentation (i.e., logbook etc.)

• Extensive visits to the peripheral labs and guidance for better improvement (for EQA staff)

• Quality assurance of the random slides and provide feedback report to the respective laboratories in a regular basis (for EQA staff)

• Practice and promote organization’s gender policy and support implementation of gender equality and women empowerment at all levels

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the organization’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment

• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action

• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so

• Accept relocation of the workstation or transfer anywhere based on the need of the project

MAJOR CHALLENGES (encountered while performing the major responsibilities):

• Time-bound action

• Maintain infection control

• Maintain quality-assured bacteriology

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs)

• No. of discordant/ error/ invalid

• Maintenance of the laboratory equipment

• Optimum utilization of laboratory equipment/ test/ screening

• Infection control measures

• Reduce the turnover time

• Preparation of quality report

Skills & Expertise