Overview

Job Title: Lab Technician – Intern – 1 Post

Job station: Bagamoyo

Answers to/ Reports to: Principal Investigator

Ifakara Health Institute (IHI)

 

 

The Institute Overview:

The Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is Africa’s foremost research organization, having a track record of inventing, testing, and verifying health-related technologies. Driven by a core strategic mandate for research, training, and services, the Institute’s work has expanded to include biological and ecological sciences, intervention studies, health-systems research, service delivery, and policy translation.

 

The Position Summary:

The Open Flexure Microscope project intends to compare the diagnostic accuracy of a unique digital microscope, the open flexure microscope, against a manual light microscope for malaria diagnosis. The Lab Technician will be responsible for assisting experienced microscopists at the Bagamoyo research laboratory with blood smear preparation for both manual and digital microscopy. The intern will also be in charge of maintaining the digital microscope, scanning smear images, and storing them on a long-term storage server.

 

The Duties and responsibilities:

  • To assist skilled microscopists in the preparation and reading of malaria blood slides.
  • To help build Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the digital microscope.
  • The blood slide imaging with a digital microscope and data storage.
  • Support in the archiving and storage of blood smear pictures.
  • To coordinate blood slide reading findings from both digital and manual microscopes. To keep digital microscopes in good condition.

 

The Qualifications and Experience:

  • A diploma in Medical Laboratory Science.

 

The Skills and competencies:

  • The knowledge of malaria microscopy using an optical microscope.
  • The basic computing expertise.
  • Knowing how to build a digital microscope will be advantageous.

 

The Remuneration:

  • The successful candidates will be offered an excellent and competitive remuneration package based on the IHI salary scale.

 

 

An Equal Opportunity:

The IHI is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit intentional bias, discrimination, and harassment of any type in the workplace and during recruitment. All hiring decisions are made exclusively on the basis of job needs and individual credentials, and our recruitment procedure is controlled by Tanzanian labour regulations.

 

The mode of application:

All the candidates who satisfy the above job requirements should send their application letters, full curriculum vitae (CVs), contact information (email, phone/cell phone numbers), and copies of academic and professional credentials to the email address listed below.

The deadline for this application is 17:00 on Thursday, December 19, 2024.

All email application subject lines should include the following: [Lab Technician – Intern (OFM project)].

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

 

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER,

IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE,

PLOT 463 MIKOCHENI,

P.O BOX 78373,

DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA.

Email: recruitment@ihi.or.tz

To apply for this job email your details to recruitment@ihi.or.tz.