Cold Chain Monitor
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Location | Karachi, Pakistan |
Date Posted | September 2, 2019 |
Category |
Others
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Job Type |
Other
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Qualifications | Bachelors or Master’s in Public health or relevant field. |
Career Level | Experienced / Professional |
Experience | At least 5 years of relevant experience. |
Gender | Not Applicable |
Base Salary | -- Not Mentioned -- |
Currency | PKR |
Send Resume at | jobs.pk@ird.global |
Description
Position Code: HRD-PC/TD-158
Department / Program: Maternal & Child Health Program
Reporting To: Team Lead MCH
Employment Type: Contractual
JOB PURPOSE
The incumbent will be responsible for cold chain and vaccine management with an understanding of temperature monitoring procedures and products. S/he will also be responsible for coordination with designated staff at WHO PQS and Path.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Compiling monthly data from sentinel sites to submit to national authorities and WHO PQS via the ODK2 online tool.
- Carrying out surveillance visits each month to selected sites based on the site visit plan, to improve completeness of inventory and reporting as well as provide support/feedback to health facility staff.
- Carrying out and/or coordinate root cause of failure analysis (RCFA) through visits to facility level and submit reports to in-country stakeholders and WHO PQS via the ODK2 online tool if trigger thresholds for indicators are reached.
- Including the relevant technical national and regional cold chain staff, to the extent possible, in all PMM activities, including site visits and RCFA.
- Convening key technical EPI cold chain staff every quarter to review the data and CCE performance issues identified and discuss mitigation actions.
- Participating in PMM Working Group calls or other relevant meetings if requested.
- Developing Annual work plan of surveillance activities with feedback from EPI.
- Input into data collection and report design and ensure data is collected to predetermined standards.
- Health facility-level data collection and reporting tools adapted to the local context.
- Monthly performance reports using the ODK2 tool, combining routine health facility reporting, field visit, and RCFA findings.
- Ad-hoc written RCFA reports.
- Up to date CCE inventory for sentinel sites.
- Train regional and health facility staff on the PMM concept and indicators, reporting tool/templates, data standards, reporting frequency, agree on roles and responsibilities of local government focal points, etc either through individual visits or combined workshops.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES (KSA)
Required Qualification
- Bachelors or Master’s in Public health or relevant field.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of relevant experience.
- Experience with CCE maintenance.
- Understanding of the national EPI system.
Required Skills
- Strong analytical capacities, excellent ability to synthesize information and relate action to results.
- Ability to multi-task and produce quality outputs on short deadlines.
- Excellent communication, presentation, team-work and cooperation skills.
- Excellent command of English language, report writing skills.
- Excellent command of the local language.
- Computer skills, including quantitative analysis and reporting tools.
- Travel up to 50% of the time to selected facilities, as needed, to support training, data collection, and issue investigation.