Job Type : Full Time
Industry : Human Rights or Social work
Education Level : Senior level
Technical Officer, Biomedical Engineering (COVID)
Locations: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
time type: Full time
job requisition id: Requisition - 2022200950
FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization
dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally
driven solutions. Our staff include experts in Health, Education, Nutrition,
Environment, Economic Development, Civil Society, Gender, Youth, Research and
Technology; creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today's
interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 60 countries.
Currently, we are seeking suitably qualified candidates to fill in Technical
Officer Biomedical Engineering – Dar es salaam for its EpiC project in
Tanzania.
The Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC)
is a 5-year global project funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for
AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID),
dedicated to achieving and maintaining HIV epidemic control. The project
provides strategic technical assistance and direct service delivery to break
through barriers to 95-95-95 and promote self-reliant management of national
HIV programs by improving HIV case-finding, prevention, and treatment
programming. In Tanzania, EpiC will be implementing an HIV service delivery
project among key and priority populations, adolescent girls and young women;
and orphans and vulnerable children which aims to reduce HIV infections in
pursuit of reaching 95-95-95 goals. To achieve this goal, the program
will support targeted prevention and case finding strategies at community level
amongst the targeted populations.
Job Description
Providing overall expert technical guidance and inputs
behind the project’s strategies, and work plan activities, to developing
specifications for equipment and infrastructure needs of the select hospitals
to capacitate them to use liquid medical oxygen (LOX), identify technical
assistance needs of the select hospitals to install and maintain LOX equipment
and infrastructure, Identify the need and details of the LOX system
sustainability plan for target hospitals and support the costing of each item
and activity as part of the costed workplan. Implement tasks in accordance with
the workplan and in consultation with facilities medical officer in charge,
Local biomedical engineers, MoH officials, and key stakeholders such as CHAI
and any existing oxygen task force at national and subnational level.
Main Function/Responsibilities
Minimum Requirements
FHI 360 is
an international nonprofit working to improve the health and well-being of
people in the United States and around the world.
We partner
with governments, the private sector and civil society to bring about positive
social change and to provide lifesaving health care, quality education and
opportunities for meaningful economic participation. We do this by using
research and evidence to design and deliver innovative programs that change
behaviors, increase access to services and improve lives.
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