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Date Posted: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
6 Adverse Effect Coordinator
Terms Of Rerefence And Profile Of Temporary Workers For Irs Intervention
The Indoor Residual Spraying Project funded by the United States President’s Malaria Initiative (PM) through United State of Agency for International Development (USAID), provides support in planning and implementation of Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) in Rwanda, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (RBC/MOH), with the overall goal of reducing the burden of malaria. This is through conducting cost-effective commodity procurement and logistics systems, access to technical expertise, prevention, and management of undesired exposure to insecticide or accidental insecticide poisoning during the spray campaign, training, and timely implementation of IRS in districts affected by malaria. Abt Associates is seeking to fill various temporary district and sector positions for (IRS) project in PMI, Government of Rwanda and Global Fund supported districts as part of a large global-wide program funded by PMI/ USAID.
12. Adverse Effect Coordinator – 6 positions

Key Roles and Responsibilities:
The Side Effects Coordinator is responsible for safe transportation, storage, and use of all insecticide, and is responsible to effectively coordinate with District Coordinator, Environmental Compliance Officer and Operation Manager to ensure understanding and safety of all involved in IRS operations, Visit IRS operational sites to familiarize his/herself with safety information contained in the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), ensure all health facility received a copy MSDS during IRS operations, in collaboration with EC Officer facilitate safety training on the exposure to insecticides or accidental insecticide poisoning to health professional involved in IRS Campaign, Discuss all potential safety concerns and Emergency Plan, emergency equipment and explain emergency procedures, such as the fire extinguisher in case of fire with the Line Managers and key department heads to be followed during IRS spray campaign,
Document any incident report occurred in field and share the report with the District coordinator, ECO and Operation manager, Work closely with storekeepers to ensure all the occupational health and safety procedures are followed, Work closely with operation site coordinators and supervisors to ensure insecticide mixing procedures are followed and that the insecticides containers are well handled and well stored for disposal, Continual supervision of spray operations throughout the spray season and completion of smartphone-based checklists as guided by the IRS Best Management Practices, Oversight of IRS solid and liquid waste management activities during IRS operations (waste handling, segregation, storage, and transportation) to be sure that the wastes are managed responsibly.

Preferred Skills / Prerequisites:
• Demonstrate knowledge of using Microsoft Office suite applications including Excel, word and PowerPoint preferred.
• Ability to understand and interpret and enforce compliance to the project’s environmental safety policies and procedures as well as the ability to apply them with consistency in a variety of circumstances
• Knowledge of facilitating trainings/workshops
• Good communication skills including spoken and written English, French or of both, and Kinyarwanda is mandatory
• Willingness and flexibility to work long hours
• Any training in environmental impact assessment/ environmental assessment, occupational health and safety or IRS is added advantage

Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Public health, Environmental health, or any other relevant field

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Professional Certificate

Job application procedure
Please send your application and detailed CVs to irsprojectrwanda@gmail.com , Deadline for submission: June 06, 2022.

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