Name of the Position:
• Intervention Research Assistant.
Vacancy:
• One (01).
Job Location:
• Dhaka, Bangladesh with travel to remote rural field sites
Educational requirements:
• Bachelor degree from any discipline.
Experience and other Requirements Experience:
• Previous experience as a health promoter
• Proficiency in Microsoft excel and word
• Proficiency in Access
Other requirements:
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced research setting.
Job Responsibilities:
• Attending a 14-day Qualitative Training Session
• Attending a 14-Day cholera WASH Intervention Delivery Training
• Using a database on a netbook computer for data entry
• Entering all paper forms into the study database with a week of collecting this data. This includes supporting entry of forms conducted by the Evaluation Team.
• Conducting in-depth Interviews, intervention workshops, and focus group discussions
• Transcribing and translating in-depth interviews, intervention workshops, and focus group discussions within a week of conducting these activities
• Writing a 2-page summary of each in-depth interview, intervention workshop, and focus group discussion within 48 hours of conducting these activities
• Attending debriefing sessions with the intervention coordinator within 4 hours after each interview or focus group discussion
• Conducting structured observations in the household
• Assisting with analysis and interpretation of qualitative and structured observation data
• Assisting with the development of intervention communication materials
• Piloting developed intervention and evaluation forms and protocols in study households
• Assisting with the refinement of intervention and evaluation materials
• Attending weekly field team meetings with all study staff
• Attending weekly field team meetings with the intervention team only
• Attending monthly refresher trainings
• Completing intervention visit forms and submitting these to the Intervention Team Coordinator
• Conducting ring and group sessions for intervention delivery
• Coding open ended questions for knowledge and water treatment and handwashing questions
• Checking all study forms collected for completeness, and responding to queries from the study data manager. This includes returning to study participants in the hospital and household to complete missing or erroneous data.
• Assisting in any aspects of the pilot and intervention study as directed by the Intervention Coordinator, Project Coordinator, or Principal Investigator
• Screening of diarrhea patients at health facilities
• Conducting stool testing for cholera using the rapid VC Dipstick test
• Conducting baseline and clinical surveillance visits
• Putting barcodes on all stool and water samples collected and entering them into main database and laboratory receiving database
• Bringing collected stool and water samples to the laboratory and entering them into the laboratory receiving database
• Entering all stool samples collected into the main receiving database
• Entering all stool samples collected into the laboratory receiving database
• This position will sometimes include work early in the morning and late in the evenings and on Saturdays and Sundays.
BD Jobs Circular Information:
• BD Jobs Circular File.
