Survey Coordinator (Operations Research in Tuberculosis Control & Management: Request for Short term Consultancy) at Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH)

Duration of assignment: 35 days

Job Description
The Survey Coordinator will be an epidemiologist with experience in national/sub-national surveys and with at least 5 year experience in planning and conducting population-based surveys, preferably including health seekitig and mass communication. The survey coordiriator will:

• Reports to the prncipal investigator.
• Be responsible for the day-to-day management of the survey
• Be actively involved in the design of the study
• Facilitate the development of survey protocol and tools
• Prepares training manual and study materials
• Trains team leaders and interviewers
• Supervises the work of data collection byteam leaders through periodic reports
• Supervises other survey team members to ensure strict compliance with survey implementation timeline.
• S/he must ensure that all survey activities are in compliance with approved survey protocol end that no breach of ethics is allowed during the exercise.
• Make presentations to relevant stakeholdars at vanous stages and milestones achievement of the survey
• S/hewill ensure timely preparation and submission of the survey report Support the preparation of publishable article in peer reviewed journal.

Qualification required

• Eligible candidate must possess at least a Master Degree in Public Health, Biostatislics, and Epidemiology. A PhD in related discipline will be an advantage.
• Must have at least 5-10 years experience in supervising and leading national or sub-national level surveys with particular relerence to Tuberculosis (This will also be an advantage).
• Possess strong analytical and writing skill including competency in use of statistical analytical software such as STATA, R. GIS and Microsoft office package.
• Familiarity with Nigeria Tuberculosis control program and Nigeria political social and cultural terrain is required.
• Must possess good leadership, communication and interpersonal relations and team spirit.
• Must be fluent in English language and communicate effectively. Fluency in another Nigerian language will be an advantage.