Clinical Officer

Job Summary

Position: Clinical Officer – 1 post
Reports To: Project Leader
Work Station: Ifakara
Apply By: 17th June, 2025

Institute Overview

Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is a leading research organization in Africa with a strong track record in developing, testing and validating innovations for health. Driven by a core strategic mandate for research, training and services, the Institute’s work now spans a wide spectrum, covering biomedical and ecological sciences, intervention studies, health-systems research, service delivery and policy translation.

Position Summary

Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is looking for qualified and experienced Clinical Officer to join and collaborate within the existing clinical research platform of Chronic Diseases Clinic Ifakara (CDCI), Intermediate Care Unit at St. Francis Referral Hospital (IMC-SFRH), CARECHAIN-NCD and Heart and Lung Clinic to implement the CARECHAIN-NCD within Kilombero, Ulanga, Malinyi and Bagamoyo districts. The Clinician will be required to follow and abide to the KIULARCO protocol related activities and will be performing the training related activities. The candidate will attend patients at the Heart and Lung Clinic and Intermediate Care Unit (IMC), CDCI during community outreach according to the allocated duties.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Participate in data collection at Heart and Lung Clinic, CDCI, public health facilities, and the community.
• Attend to patients with heart failure, diabetes, hypertension, asthma and COPD as per CARECHAIN-NCD scope.
• Learn to perform comprehensive sonography and echocardiography in the clinics and within another project operating areas.
• Learn to do research that aligns within the scope of the CARECHAIN, IMC, KIULARCO project scope.
• Data collection and management.
• Patient recruitment and consenting.
• Train other healthcare workers to perform comprehensive sonography and echocardiography in the clinics and within other project operating areas.
• Conduct health education and community sensitization about NCDs, and their interaction with HIV/AIDS.
• Coordinated MCT accredited courses within the Ifakara training platform.
• Be ready to work on any other relevant duties allocated by the project Principal Investigator and Project Leader.

Qualification and Experience

• Minimum of a diploma in Clinical Medicine.
• Experience in quantitative data collection.
• Experience in qualitative data collection.
• Experience serving or attending patients with non-communicable diseases or HIV.
• Competent and certified on Good Clinical Practice (GCP).

Skills and Competencies

• Fluent in Swahili language; fluency in English is added advantage.
• Interested in doing both clinical and research and field work.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and able to collaboratively work in a team.
• Capable of interaction with district local leaders and village members.
• Result oriented.
• Professional attitude to work and clear work ethics.
• Adhere to IHI core values (Integrity, Initiative, Equity, Excellence, Accountability).

Remuneration

An attractive and competitive remuneration package will be offered to successful candidates as per IHI salary scales.

Equal Opportunity

IHI is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit intentional biases or discrimination and harassment of any kind at the work place and during recruitment. All employment decisions are based solely on job requirements and individual qualifications, and our recruitment process is governed by the labour laws of Tanzania.

Mode of Application

All candidates who meet the above job requirements should send their application letters together with their detailed curriculum vitae (CVs) showing contact addresses including email, telephone/cell phone numbers and copies of academic and professional certificates to the email address below. The deadline for this application is 17:00 hrs (EAT) on Tuesday, June 17th 2025. All email application subject lines should include: CLINICAL OFFICER – CARECHAIN NCD. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for an interview.

The Senior Human Resources and Administration Manager
IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE
Plot 463 Mikocheni
P.O. Box 78,373
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania