BRAC
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Summary
- Vacancy: —
- Age: 18 to 50 years
- Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
- Minimum Salary: Negotiable
- Published: 11 Aug 2024
Requirements
Education
- Bachelor/Honors
Additional Requirements
- Age 18 to 50 years
- Have knowledge on community mobilization
- Excellent computer skills- MS Office
- Excellent Coordination, communication and presentation skills
- Have skills on organizing and planning
Responsibilities & Context
BRAC is an international development organization founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realize potential.
With the support of The Global Fund, BRAC Health Programme has been implementing TB Control Project for more than three decades in collaboration with National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP). BRAC works in a people-centered approach across rural and urban areas of the country with the aim to ensure prevention, early diagnosis and treatment adherence of tuberculosis through community engagement and Public-Private Mix (PPM) activities so that TB related healthcare services can be widely accessible and affordable to every individual.
Major Responsibilities:
- Prepare monthly work-plan to implementing programmatic interventions accordingly.
- Perform community mobilization for ACF (active case finding), organize outreach centers, collection of samples and transport them to the nearby facilities for Xpert/ Truenat/ Microscopy testing including re-testing of microscopy positive cases.
- Ensure treatment initiation, regular follow-up of ongoing patients and ensure quality DOT by monitoring Shasthya Shebika/ DOT provider/ community health workers and referral of retreatment cases for Xpert/ Truenat testing.
- Perform contact investigation (CI) of bacteriologically-confirmed pulmonary TB patients (both DS-TB and DR-TB) and refer them to the physician for screening the eligibility of TPT and ensure enrolment.
- Guide community health workers/ volunteers to identify Child TB presumptive in the community and refer them to the facilities for testing.
- Ensure HIV screening of TB patients in the respective working area.
- Ensure ambulatory treatment initiation at community level as early as possible in coordination with UH&FPO and MODC.
- Organize/ conduct courtyard meetings, TB campaigns, special outreach centers for key and vulnerable population, refreshers training for Shasthya Shebika/ DOT providers for proper TB presumptive identification and quality DOT.
- Update private sector mapping including formal and informal healthcare facilities/ providers and visit them in a regular basis to enhance presumptive and case referral.
- Ensure distribution of drugs and incentive for Shasthya Shebika/ DOT providers and social support for eligible TB presumptive and patients.
- Maintain regular coordination, communication, liaison with upazila/ union level stakeholders including HA, HI, CHCP etc.
- Contribute in preparation of monthly/ quarterly reports and submit in due time.
- Practice and promote organization’s gender policy and support implementation of gender equality and women empowerment at all levels.
- Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organization and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme’s goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
- Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
- Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.
Skills & Expertise
Communication
Community Mobilization
Computer skill
field reporting
Planning and organizing skill
Presentation skill
Compensation & Other Benefits
Festival Bonus, Health and Life Insurance, Maternity/ Paternity Leave and others as per policy.
Workplace
Work at office
Employment Status
Contractual
Job Location
Anywhere in Bangladesh
Job Highlights
Responsible for community mobilization and outreach activities to increase case notification and follow-up of ongoing patients and ensure quality DOT, HIV and COVID-19 screening and TPT enrollment.