Insect Collectors

CissdBihar Zone
Required Experience
- 0 - 5 Years
- Posted On
- 22 Mar 2023
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BA - BACHELOR OF ARTS

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- Job Description**Position**:
Insect Collectors

**Grade/Level**

I

**Project/Unit**

VL Phase III

**Reports to**:
Entomological Surveillance Officer

**Location**:
Any of the project sites of Bihar/West Bengal/Jharkhand/Uttar Pradesh/Maharashtra

**Project Duration**

1 Year

**Project Background**

A Memorandum of Co-operation (MoC) was signed between Government of Bihar (GoB) and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) in 2010, based on which BMGF agreed to provide technical support and assistance to GoB to improve Health and Nutrition outcomes across the State. As part of this MoC, a Technical Support Unit (TSU) was established in 2013 with CARE India as the lead development partner. The Bihar TSU aimed to support the Health and Social Welfare (ICDS) Departments of the GoB in their endeavour to achieve rapid and sustainable change in Health and Nutrition. The TSU targets providing specific technical support to Government of India’s (GoI) RMNCH+A campaign, GoB’s Manav Vikas Mission Goals and Kala-Azar elimination goals across the State.

"In the next phase of, TSU will target people within the system with range of different types of intervention, to shape leadership and governance, build technical/managerial/data skills, co-design tools, processes, pilots with them, hardwire research into the core decision making processes, use measurement increasingly as a mirror and learning intervention, and draw on the wealth of experience accumulating with the team on the ground to inform policy making and strategy design." As a part of the agreement between GoB and BMGF, Bihar TSU has established District Resource Unit (DRU) in all the districts to provide technical support at district level. The DRU would function as a Platform to enable structured delivering of program intervention and ensure that there is alignment with government priorities.

As a part of the agreement between GoB and BMGF, Bihar TSU has established a State Resource Unit (SRU) and District Resource Units (DRU) in all the districts to provide technical support at district level. The DRU would function as a Platform to enable structured delivering of program intervention and ensure that there is alignment with government priorities. It would help improve utilization/alignment and synergy of resources like DPs at district level. It will also ensure data driven management and bridge communication gaps between State and districts.

This support extends across hierarchies - from State level support to Health Department, ICDS department and State Health Society of Bihar (SHSB), to District and Block level support across all 534 blocks in the State.

Concurrent Measurement and Learning Unit (CML) under TSU, designs and puts in place processes to generate and analyse outcome and process data on community and facility level services at scale. Along with Reproductive Health, Maternal, Newborn and Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition, the CML cell will also focus on generation and sharing of data related to Kala Azar / VL (Visceral Leishmaniasis). CML Unit also plays a critical role in the capacity building of program team and Government counterparts on data driven decision making.

**Job Summary**

The CML unit conducts Kala-azar vector surveillance and vector susceptibility across sentinel sites in Bihar / Jharkhand / West Bengal along with bionomics of vector at selected sentinel sites. Insect collectors will be primarily responsible for installing the light traps, sorting and data entry as per laid down protocols of vector surveillance. The incumbent will be responsible for all field related operations of vector surveillance in selected villages.

**Contract / Key Relationships**

The Insect Collector will report to Entomological Surveillance Officer of their respective assigned districts of Bihar/ West Bengal/ Jharkhand and may need to coordinate/collaborate with Insect Collectors of the same district or other districts.

**Key Responsibilities**

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

- Understanding the surveillance 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 a