Medical Data Collectors(5 posts) Jhpiego Mara
Job Type: Full-Time
Closing Date: 30th October 2023
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Jhpiego is an international non-profit health organization affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University. For 42 years now, Jhpiego has empowered front-line health workers by designing and implementing effective, low-cost, hands-on solutions to strengthen the delivery of health care services for women and their families. By putting evidence-based health innovations into everyday practice, Jhpiego works to break down barriers to high-quality health care for the world's most vulnerable populations. Jhpieqo is implementing a number of projects in Tanzania and wishes to recruit the following positions.

Medical Data Collectors [5 - positions based in Mara, 5 - position based in Kagera, 10 positions whose locations will be known during interviews]

Responsibilities of data collectors
To participate in daily clinical rounds in the surgical and obstetric wards and work with facility clinician to identify post-op patients with targeted complications for the project
• To ensure that proper consent has been obtained from all study subjects as required by the protocol .
• To ensure that selected indicator data is collected and documented daily or monthly at facilities as per the study protocol
• To teach Health facility clinicians and data collectors appropriate data collection techniques and oversee their collection
• To prepare daily, weekly or; monthly reports related to the collected data and submit to Harvard PGSSC

Location Of the activity:
This evaluation will be conducted in 10 intervention Health facilities in Kagera and Mara regions (5 in each region) and 10 control sites in another selected region. One data collector will be stationed in each of the 20 sites during the entire data collection period

Activity Dates
Baseline assessment is expected to last from 15 January to 15 March 2018, but this period may be extended up to six months since the data collectors will have to train the facility-based providers to continue data collection beyond the baseline assessment, hence the need to stay longer in these facilities

Required qualifications
The data collectors will be Medical Doctors who have graduated from a medical school and have completed internship in a recognized institution. They should have at least temporary registration with the Medical Council of Tanganyika and a certificate of internship.