Clinton Health Access Initiative Cold Chain Technician Jobs in Ethiopia

Clinton Health Access Initiative Cold Chain Technician Jobs in Ethiopia

Job Id: 216931

Category: Health Care
Location: Addis Ababa, Jimma, Addis Ababa
Career Level: Senior Level (5+ years experience)
Employment Type: Full time
Salary:

Job Description

Organizational Overview: The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is currently operating in Ethiopia carrying out a wide range of programs to support the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia in improving the health status of the country by ensuring access and quality of health services.

We are committed to increasing our effectiveness through an innovative programming approach that optimizes quality, impact and scale.

Being the largest CHAI field office worldwide, we currently employ over 150 staff working in the following nine programs: , Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNH), HIV, Lab Services, Vaccines, Global Health Financing, Child Survival, Caner, Human Resource for Health, Woreda Transformation Programs.

Job Summary: Under the supervision and guidance of the Senior Cold chain technician and senior vaccine program manager, the cold chain technician will provide both management and technical support to EPSA and respective hubs on cold chain maintenance and management.

The cold chain technician/ biomedical engineer will support planning, implementation and monitoring of cold chain equipment installation, maintenance & repair activities and improve the functionality of the cold chain equipment (refrigerators, cold rooms refrigerated trucks, remote temperature monitoring devices and generators), at EPSA main office and its hubs.

In addition, the cold chain technician/Biomedical engineer will support capacity building activities on cold chain maintenance and management for targeted universities/Biomedical engineering departments and RHBs/ZHOs.

Duty station: AA, and Jimma with frequent travel (more than 80% of the time) to targeted EPSA hubs, RHBs, Zonal health offices and universities.

Reports to: Vaccine, Senior Cold chain technician

Job Responsibilities:

Support the targeted EPSA hubs, regional health bureau, Zonal health offices and Universities to plan, and implement cold chain equipment maintenance: