Lab manager cum admin assistant

Designation	Lab manager cum admin assistant
Location	Patna
Project Duration	9 Month (Consultant)

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:

He/she will be held responsible for all the admin and management related works of the lab and field operations. 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 lab technician will include the following but not be restricted to:

• Understanding the VL TD protocol.
• Receive, label, and analyse samples (Blood and Serum etc.)
• Provide all logistics support for the field and lab related operation.
• Documentation of all the logistics
• Entry of data into computer on regular basis.
• Maintain equipment and assist in ordering laboratory supplies.
• Any other duty assigned by supervisor. 

Desirable Qualification & Experience

Essential:

• Graduate in any specialization (any medical bioscience stream is preferred) Or
• 12th pass in science subjects with any one of the following:

(i) Two years of similar experience

• Ability to work in early and late hours of the day.
• Experience of working with community will be preferred.

Preferred:

• Good communication skill in Hindi/local languages
• Experience in operating electrical and nonelectrical laboratory equipment and potentially dangerous substances (flammable liquids, infectious bacteria, biohazards etc.)

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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