Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC), a five-year global project funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is dedicated to achieving and maintaining HIV epidemic control. EpiC is led by FHI 360 with core partners Right to Care (RTC), Palladium, Population Services International (PSI), and Gobee Group. The project also draws upon regional resource partners to provide technical assistance, as well as global resource partners who bring unique capacities. EpiC has been modified to accept COVID-19 funding to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and bolster health systems to address COVID-19 and reemergence. EpiC is providing COVID-19 technical assistance in Haiti.
Fonctions
Technical Requirements:
• Provide technical leadership in COVID-19/oxygen-related biomedical engineering activities under EpiC.
• Works on problems of moderate to complex scope that require evaluation of variable factors.
• Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining solutions, with some supervision.
• Networks with key internal personnel.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Project Design Implementation:
• Provide technical assistance to Haiti in the field of bio-medical engineering with a focus on improving quality of services for COVID-19 patients.
• Lead development of rapid assessment protocols, as well as implementation, data collection, analysis and presentation to government stakeholders in Haiti.
• Support development or revision of national regulations, strategies and implementation plans to improve maintenance of equipment required for COVID-19 case management.
• Identify and prioritize items that play a vital role in the delivery of medical oxygen to COVID-19 patients and provide technical assistance to build capacity at national and subnational levels to maintain these items.
• Provide hands-on equipment preventive maintenance training, including but not limited, analytical instrument qualification and validation as per the requirement of ISO/IEC and WHO Good Practices for Pharmaceutical Quality Control.
• Leads the day to day technical and operational activities of biomedical engineering activities
• Tracks delivery of project outputs
• Coordinates requests from health facilities and the MOH for BME technical assistance
• Leads the design, development, planning, and implementation of innovative technical strategies
• Maintains a constructive dialogue and technical exchange with local counterparts and technical staff members of implementing partners
• Develops tools for the design and implementation of specific technical components
• Ensures technical implementation is consistent with best practices in the industry / subject and meet client / funder contractual obligations for of one or more large functional areas
• Supervise sub-contractors and others implementing technical project work
• Develops tools for the design and implementation of specific BME technical components
• Leads the day-to-day technical activities of assigned projects
• Track delivery of project outputs
Business Development and Client/Funder Support:
• Contributes to budgets and work plans
• Develops and maintains relationships with USAID, partners, peers, etc. to develop new business.
• Participate in client / funder meetings and provide technical input.
• Draft sponsor reports and presentations.
• Represents the organization and / or Institute to external entities at professional meetings and conferences.
• Maintains collaborative relationships with donor/client organizations, relevant government agencies, bilateral and other NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and consistently maintained and viewed as a knowledgeable resource in their technical area.
• Continually maintains a dialogue and technical exchange with local counterparts and technical staff members of implementing partners.
• Participate in client / funder meetings and draft reports/presentations.
Partner/Sub-Award Management:
• May be daily POC (Point of Contact) with clients for some projects on technical matters.
Capacity Building, Training and Supervision:
• Build capacity of biomedical technicians in target hospitals and health facilities on preventive maintenance, installation, and repair of equipment.
• Develop tools and checklists and train local biomedical technicians to continuously monitor equipment such as PSA/VSA plants, cylinders, oxygen tanks, oxygen transfer pipes, oxygen concentrators, and other oxygen delivery equipment.
• Provide technical leadership in design, development, planning, implementation; and capacity- building of biomedical engineering activities
• Develops and implements technical training and capacity building interventions.
• Identifies strategies to address training gaps.
• May supervise or provide technical guidance to staff members locally and in the region.
Project/Program Reporting:
• Monitor, evaluate and report on progress in improving access to quality biomedical engineering systems and services in Haiti, using standardized methodologies and tools.
• Work closely with other EpiC team members to ensure technical work plans are being implemented in a timely and technically sound manner.
• Drafts sponsor financial and technical reports.
• Collates and uploads output and deliverables data to sponsor data systems.
• Prepares and delivers presentations to sponsors on progress.
• Helps in the development and review of work plans.
• Creates technical content, owning the content, true experts at an advanced level (maybe the most senior technical person).
• Serves as the primary author for technical deliverables (e.g., reports, presentations, manuscripts).
• Gathers and aggregates data to provide a summary / high level overview.
Quality Assurance:
• Develop performance standards, analytical instruments, preventive maintenance protocols and procedures to be used and applied at the national and sub-national levels.
• Ensures technical deliverables are consistent with best practices in the industry / subject and meet client / funder contractual obligations
• Identifies areas for improved efficiency or effectiveness within prescribed parameters, and institutes enhancements to procedures.
Qualifications Requises
Master’s in biomedical engineering or degree related with health technological products.
8+ years of relevant experience in technical implementation of large projects and/or program regulation of health technological products with a focus on medical devices registration, import/export control, vigilance of the health technology product or equipment.
Considerable experience in the development of standard technical specifications, manuals for medical devices, quality testing references, assessment of technical files prior to listing and performance of quality audits for medical devices manufacturers.
Experience in the development of training materials and, organizing and implementing training events.
Experience in development of manuals for health technology products including medical devices materials.
Experience in developing guidelines and standard operating procedures for classification and listing medical devices.
Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private organization.
Work experience in Haiti highly desirable.
Conditions particulières
• The physical demands for this position are those of a typical office environment. These include the ability to spend long hours look at a computer screen, the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time, and the ability to lift 5 to 25 lbs.
• Personal computer, Microsoft Office 365 (ie. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Skype/TEAMS, e-mail), office telephone, cell phone, and printer/copier.
