Consultant - Insect Collectors

Designation	Consultant - Insect Collectors
Location	Patna
Project Duration	9 Month.

Piramal Foundation’s vision is to transform Health, Education, Water and social sector ecosystems through partnerships, high impact solutions and thought leadership. We have a presence in 27 Indian states and 2 Union Territories. 

Our approach to address these deep-rooted barriers:

• Partnerships approach to draw additional resources, a vast pool of diverse expertise, and innovations to tackle a social sector problem at scale. 
• Platform approach to influence systemic transformation through an alliance of partners for "scalable learning" by leveraging a pool of diverse resources to address a single problem with speed

Job Summary:

The RMLE unit will operationalise the said project. Insect collectors will be primarily responsible for installing the Light traps, sorting and data entry as per laid down protocol of VL transmission dynamics. The incumbent will be responsible for all field related operation.

Sustained surveillance and rapid response to leishmaniasis (VL) outbreaks will be essential to ensure the long-term success of the elimination programme. Validation of a suite of laboratory assays, along with rapid epidemiological investigations, will help to provide a tool kit for future deployment as a part of post-elimination surveillance.
Piramal foundation has been mandated to conduct the assessment and develop the said tool to sustain the effective management of VL outbreak responses in the post elimination phase.

This role will be responsible for but not limited to the following:

The primary duties and responsibilities of the Insect Collector will include the following but not be restricted to:

• Understanding the VL TD protocol.
• Sand fly collection by test tube, aspirator and light trap method from field.
• Identification of sand fly species, sorting of sand fly collected by Light traps and storing.
• Careful installation of light traps at predefined site in selected village of the district.
• Overall in-charge and caretakers of light traps and its accessories and also ensure the charging of light traps at charging station
• Careful maintenance of forms and other scientific data and handing over to supervisor and data entry
• Careful transportation of specimen to nearest Laboratory
• Dissection of midgut as per the requirement
• Proper maintenance of record
• Entry of data into computer on regular basis
• Any other duty assigned by supervisor.

Desirable Qualification & Experience

Essential:

• Graduate in any specialization (any science stream is preferred)
• Candidate must have good eyesight (6/6 or 6/9) vision.
• Ability to work in early and late hours of the day.
• Experience of working with community will be preferred.

Preferred:

• Excellent communication skill in Hindi/local languages
• Aspirants should have valid driving license along with own motor bike.
• Prior knowledge of Kala-azar and said works will be preferred.

Essential Skills:

• Aspirant must have high sense of responsibility and integrity.
• Good articulation skill
• High learning agility
• Ability to work at high pressure environment – stretched working hours and flexible schedules in case of requirement.
• Ability to travel very extensively within assigned village/blocks and to other locations as and when required on his vehicle.
• Aspirants must be very dedicated, committed, hardworking, honest and able to work with minimal supervision even in the night hour in villages.
•  Ability to read and write English.
• Basic computer literacy

Application process: Link to Apply-  https://forms.office.com/r/yGURhg80fD

Last Date to Apply- 30^th April 2024.

Share resume at recruitments@gandhifellowship.org

“Piramal Foundation is an equal opportunities organization and promotes gender diversity at the workplace. Women candidates are encouraged to apply.”

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