The Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), a biomedical and clinical research facility under the Federal Ministry of Health in Ethiopia is seeking a candidate for the position of National Junior Researcher for a VALUE-TB survey. AHRI’s research interests have traditionally encompassed Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Leishmaniasis, and more recently HIV, meningococcal and other infectious and non-infectious diseases. The Institute got its name from the Norwegian physician, Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen, who first described the leprosy bacillus (Mycobacterium leprae). AHRI has long been funded by the Governments of Norway and Sweden; and recently the Institute has received considerable grant support from US and European agencies as partners in international consortiums, and is now receiving generous funds from the Ministry of Health.
The Junior Researcher will be based at the health facilities and laboratories for a period of one week per facility and will conduct the data collection mostly regarding quantities of resources used in TB prevention, diagnosis and care. They will need to be employed for the cost collection and cleaning periods. The research assistants should have good social and communication skills and should be thoroughly trained in costing techniques and the data collection tools. The research assistants should also have the ability to manage technology if the online data collection tool is used
Roles and Responsibilities
· Carries out interviews with TB providers with due respect for privacy and confidentiality
· Analyses client registers, financial records, pharmacy/laboratory records, and other TB-related documentation and extracts required information from them
· Enters, manages, and keeps economic data collected from the field
· Participates in data cleaning and analysis with support from the co-PIs
· Communicates promptly with study coordinator on any bottlenecks arising (technical or managerial)
· BSc in health related fields
· Prior experiences in cost collection desirable
· Demonstrated good computer skills in Microsoft Excel and Word packages
· Good knowledge of the Ethiopian health system
· Fluent in the local language spoken in the cluster or health facility
· Good administration and organizational skills
· Well-developed social and communication skills, particularly with regards to staff
· Prior experience in undertaking field work for public health research or facility based costing