Medical Laboratory Scientist at Society for Family Health (SFH)

Job Profile- He/She will be responsible for establishing and running a laboratory within the OSS and will be commitment to the KPs at risk or infected with HIV and to their continuity on ARV treatment, care, support, and prevention services

Job-role

The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

• Clinical services: Conducting all laboratory tests and related services at the OSS in line with good clinical laboratory practice
• Documentation: Maintaining a robust Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and timely reporting of laboratory activities to USAID using the APPR Platform
• Meetings: OSS weekly meetings, State weekly review meetings, Laboratory and Logistic Weekly review meeting, USAID weekly review meetings, and any other meeting as directed.
• Programs: Surge Activities-Case finding, Refills, maintains laboratory Practice and Standards in clinical service delivery, Provide program supervisory functions to an assigned CCAPS
• Report writing: weekly work plan, weekly program report, trip repor

Qualifications/Experience:

• A degree or diploma in clinical/medical laboratory science or in microbiology with applied medical parasitology and bacteriology. Alternatively, person may have held a position as a medical laboratory scientist, laboratory technologist or medical laboratory analyst,
• A minimum of 3-4 years relevant post-qualification work experience
• Experience in sample collection and analysis (e.g. blood, stool, sputum)
• Fluency in Hausa language in addition to English language and other local languages.
• Experience in implementing a supply management system.
• Knowledge of all basic laboratory techniques and quality control systems
• Ability to cope with stress and to organize and prioritize workload.
• Experience in working in a laboratory offering specific tests for ART treatment monitoring.

Skills and Competencies required

• Excellent skills in Good Clinical Laboratory Practice.
• Experience in sample referral and result tracking.
• Ability to cope with stress and to organize and prioritize workload.
• Ability to work in a team.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication (oral and written), presentation skills.
• S/He must be attuned to and be comfortable with the culture/traditions of the people.
• Candidates should be able to communicate proficiently in the dominant language of the region.
• Must have demonstrated proficiency using intermediate-level office software applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, spreadsheets, and database