Field Laboratorians at African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET)

Job Description

• Registered laboratory personnel with prior laboratory experience (dried tube specimen collection and transportation, dried blood spot collection, handling and transportation) will be recruited for field-based laboratory work.
• The laboratory staff member will perform the blood draws and administer the HIV rapid tests.
• Pre-implementation training will focus on preparing participants for blood draw, specimen collection, processing, storage, and transportation, and use of rapid HIV tests and bio-safety procedures, ethics and confidentiality, and completion of survey data collection tools and data management.
• The laboratorians SOW shall also include supervision of the dispatch rider in sample packaging, transportation and delivery

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist the teams to locate selected households in his/her community
• Ensures proper community entry.
• Opens, separates, numbers and arranges specimens for laboratory examination and trace results.
• Maintains simple laboratory records and inventory for supplies and reagents.
• Maintains laboratory equipment and supplies by cleaning and maintaining quality assurance records.
• Maintains a clean and sanitary work area in accordance with standard laboratory practice and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications
Education/Experience:

• Candidate must possess a degree in Medical laboratory technology or related field
• Candidate must have minimum of 5 years medical laboratory experience

Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:

• Possess good phlebotomy skills including blood draw skills (both paediatric and adult respondents)
• Candidate must be able to collect and prepare dry blood spot s(DBS) samples
• Candidate must have prior laboratory experience in HIV related surveys
• Candidate must good leadership skills and team spirit