Research Assistants – Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM)

in Development, Health Care and Nutrition
Full Time
Lilongwe
December 2, 2024
Application deadline closed.

Job Description

The Malawi Government through the Ministry of Health established Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM) in 2012, as a Centre of Excellence in Public Health. Its primary role is to provide leadership in disease surveillance, research, prevention, and control through generating evidence that informs policy and advances practices in public health service delivery. PHIM is dedicated to strengthening the nation’s capacity in order to respond to a broad spectrum of public health challenges. This includes addressing emerging communicable and non-communicable diseases.

PHIM with technical and financial support from the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) is implementing a five (5) year project, entitled “Building and Strengthening Public Health Systems for HIV and Public Health Surveillance, Response, and Control in Malawi” under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through a Cooperative Agreement (CoAg). The project aims to enhance national HIV surveillance and response and strengthen the public health infrastructure and capacity to respond to public health threats and events, including infectious disease outbreaks, pandemics, and other public health emergencies among people living with HIV.

In order to achieve the objectives of the Cooperative Agreement, PHIM seeks to hire qualified candidates for the following positions;

Research Assistants

Reporting to: Birth Defects Surveillance Project Coordinator

Terms of Employment : One (1) year Contract (Renewable)

Position Overview

To facilitate accurate and complete capturing of study patients according to the study protocol through ensuring that each and every birth occurring at the health facility has been documented and assessed.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical

  • Keeping detailed numbers of admissions and deliveries of newborns in the health facility from all relevant units of the facility on a daily basis
  • Ensuring that no mothers coming to labour ward and other delivery points for deliveries are missed in the study register using study and labour ward registers
  • Finding missed study participants in the health facility prior to discharge as necessary
  • Liaising with the nurses in finding out babies born with birth defects
  • Preparing a weekly report for admissions and deliveries
  • Make plans for accounting and reconciliation of deliveries on a daily basis
  • Maintain coherent records of daily activity and provide updates as requested by the research nurses and Site

Focal Person

  • Explain protocols to clients who were missed for surveillance activities prior to data being captured from clients by study midwives
  • Will be requested to perform other reasonable tasks at the request of scientific leader, site coordinator or PI consistent with their level of training and responsibility.

Administrative

  • Assisting the Site Focal Person in ordering and accounting study supplies at the study site
  • Assisting the Site Focal Person in collating and compiling data on screening, enrolment and follow-up processes for submission to the Program Coordinator
  • To participate in regular study team meetings to evaluate and plan study activities

Qualifications and Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Social Science, and Community Development or Diploma in Public Health, Social Science, and Community Development from a recognized institution.
  • A minimum of two years’ experience in health research
  • Possession of Good Clinical Practice Certificate (desirable)

MODE OF APPLICATION.

Interested persons should submit their application letters that should include copies of relevant certificates and Curriculum Vitae which has phone numbers and names of three traceable referees
to:

The Secretary for Health

Ministry of Health

P.O. Box 30377

LILONGWE 3

Email: recruitment@health.gov.mw

Attention: Director of Human Resource Management and Development The advert can also be accessed on www.health.gov.mw

Closing date for receipt of the applications is Friday 6th December, 2024.

PLEASE NOTE: Officers who are on government payroll are not eligible to apply.

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