Job Description: Responsibilities

The Program Associate – Infectious Disease will be responsible for performing the following duties:

1. Assist the program team in implementation of workplan activities.
2. Support for public health supply chain related research work.
3. Assist in desk monitoring for quality assurance of infectious disease reported data.
4. Assist in identifying strategic and policy outcomes from monitoring data to communicate to the concerned quarters for evidence based decisions.
5. Assist in monitoring and report progress on KPIs for infectious diagnostic/treatment related logistics indictors at each tier of supply chain.
6. Assist in qualitative & quantitative analysis supported with statistical inference of of vaccines, MNCH commodities, contraceptives, basic health services and infectious diseases products sufficiency at all levels of the supply chain using SPSS and other statistical tools.
7. Assist in projects implementation activities and assist in preparing project weekly and monthly progress reports.
8. Assist in logistics management of trainings and other activities.
9. Transfer data from paper formats into database systems and validation of quality and integrity of data accumulated on the in-house LMIS.
10. Any other task assigned by supervisor.

Required Skills and Qualifications

The qualifications listed below are representative of the required knowledge, skills, and/or abilities needed to perform the principal duties.

• Masters/Bachelors in Supply Chain Management,  Biotechnology, Data Analytics or Social Sciences.
• Minimum of 1-2 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment, social science research.
• Experience of working in health-related project will be preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Fluency in written/spoken English required.
• Literacy and practical work experience in MS Office is a must, whereas, experience in analytical software will be preferred.
• Exceptional organizational skills.

Period of Performance and LOE

The expected duration of the assignment is six (06) months with total LOE of 120 days.