Summary
Date Posted: Monday, January 13, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
WaterAid Tanzania in collaboration with ELKA Statistical Consulting is conducting a Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) mapping exercise to provide country-wide baseline data in health care facilities in Tanzania. The aim is to strengthen evidence-based government-led efforts to develop and actualize a comprehensive national wide improvement response for WASH in healthcare facilities. In a bid to fulfill this objective, WaterAid Tanzania and ELKA Statistical Consulting is recruiting Research Assistants and Supervisors to perform the below roles .

Roles and Responsibilities
• Introduce the study purpose at selected health facilities and obtain health facility participation approval.
• Participate in a training on study protocol, data collection, and ethical procedures.
• Travel to selected study sites participating in the study and work closely with healthcare workers for the entire study duration.
• Identify potential study participants, assess eligibility, and recruit them.
• Obtain informed consent from selected participants according to study protocol.
• Develop interview schedules, arrange and conduct interviews in accordance to pre-determined interview guidelines, data collection procedures, tools, and documentation standards.
• Capture data into data collection paper/electronic tool.
• Review filled/completed data collection tools for completeness.
• Ensure secure and confidential storage of data and related instruments.
• Lead and supervise a team of 5-6 research assistants (specific to Research Supervisors)
• Conduct in-depth and key informant interviews (specific to Research Supervisors)
• Provide quality assurance during and after field data collection (specific to Research Supervisors)
• Perform quantitative data entry using ODK or Epi-Info software (specific to Research Supervisors)
Perform additional tasks assigned by the Research Team Supervisor

Job Skills: Not Specified

  Qualifications and skills
• Must be proficient in English language and able to work under minimum supervision.
• Must have had previous experience in qualitative and quantitative public health data collection.
• Experience in using paper-based and digital data collection.
• Previous experience in health facility assessment data collection.
• Must be flexible to work and to accept responsibilities.
• Must ensure participant privacy and confidentiality of information.
• Must have attained a minimum of advanced secondary education.
• Must have trained in public health, demography, social sciences, environmental health, epidemiology, healthcare/services management, and any other related health qualification.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team work attributes.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified
Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

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Job application procedure
Interested candidates should submit their application and resume with copies of academic qualifications to elkaconsult@gmail.com  and copy to TwahaMubarak@wateraid.org  by 6:00pm, 14 Jan 2020.

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