Job Type : Full Time
Industry : Human Rights or Social work
Education Level : Senior level
Senior
Technical Advisor – Medical Liquid Oxygen (LOX)
Locations: Dar
es Salaam, Tanzania
time type: Full
time
job
requisition id: Requisition - 2022200954
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 Senior Technical Advisor , Medical
Liquid Oxygen (LOX) – Dar es sala 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
The senior
technical advisor - LOX - provides expert technical oversight of the design and
implementation of Medical Liquid Oxygen and other sources to selected medical
health facilities. The STA-LOX shall lead a team of Technical Office biomedical
Engineer and Senior Technical officer LOX to provide guidance and inputs behind
the project’s strategies, and work plan activities, to develop the
specification 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. The biomedical engineer should do
the above in accordance with the workplan and in consultation with the facility
medical officer in charge, Local biomedical engineers, MoH officials, and key
stakeholders such as CHAI and any existing oxygen task force.
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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