Medical Officer- Blood Safety, Ethiopia, P4

Job Description

Contract type: Fixed-term appointment Duration of contract: One year renewable Duty Station: ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia Organization unit: Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) / Regional Office for Africa – DSD (AFRO/DSD) WHO Representative Office, Ethiopia

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME: To improve the availability and safety of blood and blood products, and safe injection practice by promoting evidence based policies, standards and guidelines; and supporting sustainable capacity building within the country.

Description of duties: Under the general guidance of the Divisional Director (BLS/AFRO) and direct supervision of the WR Ethiopia, the incumbent will be required to perform the following duties:

1. To support the development of policies, strategies and strategic frameworks that help the country strengthen national blood transfusion programmes and safe injection practice in a sustainable manner; 2. To support the development and management of the National programme on blood and injection safety: preparation of the programme budget and annual plans of action; support implementation of plans as well as monitoring and evaluation and reporting to DSD through the WR; 3. To contribute to the provision of technical cooperation with the country for strengthening blood transfusion services and injection safety practices through the development of blood donor recruitment ,quality management programmes; guidelines on safe injection practices and good practices in testing as well as rational use of blood and blood products; 4. To support the collection and management of data on blood safety and injection safety in order to generate relevant information for use in planning and assessment of services delivery in the country; 5. Contribute to the implementation of WHO resolutions pertaining to blood and injection safety; 6. Support the Implementation of the PEPFAR Blood safety project in the country.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Essential: University degree in medicine (MD) followed by post-graduate qualification in blood transfusion/haematology, laboratory medicine or a related field. Desirable: Additional training in management of blood transfusion services, immunology and/or quality management and planning.

Skills: Ability to plan, organize, coordinate and implement blood safety and injection safety programmes as relevant responses to identified country health needs; to develop norms and standards for good practices and effective use of blood and promotion of safe injection safety practices in health programmes; to assist in monitoring and evaluation of the programme implementation in the country, to synthesise reports and set up as well as regularly update relevant databanks to help monitoring of the effectiveness of field activities and to train human resources for blood safety and injection safety programmes according to expressed country needs.

Experience: Essential: Considerable years experience in the management and organization of blood transfusion services preferably in developing countries. Experience in training, development of national blood policies and strategic plans as well as several years of experience working with an international organization. Desirable: Experience in data management and planning

Languages: Excellent knowledge of French or English and a working knowledge of the other.

Annual salary: (Net of tax) US$ 63,052 at single rate US$ 67,709 with primary dependents Post Adjustment: 40.6 % of the above figure(s). This percentage is to be considered as indicative since variations may occur each month either upwards or downwards due to currency exchange rate fluctuations or inflation.

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