Costing Officer at Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration

The Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC) seeks to hire a suitable candidate for the position of Costing Officer for the 3HP study to be based in Kampala. The Successful candidate will be reporting to the Study Coordinator .

Duties and Responsibilities
Conduct data collection, entry and analysis related to the costing activities of the 3HP Options Trial including:
• Gathering retrospective/prospective data to quantify resources and unit costs in the implementation of the study
• Conducting observations of activities and time requirements for scheduled study activities.
• Interview study participants to gather data on their socio-economic status and costs of seeking care.
• Entering the cost data in Excel data sets, REDCap and performing basic quality checks
Collect data relevant to budgets and activity costs;
• Working in close consultation with clinic staff and administrators to quantify resources used to provide 3HP Options Trial services.
• Gathering expenditure data from various sources (e.g., administrative records, study budget and expenditure, etc.);
• Identifying other information sources when cost data is not available.
Taking lead on responding to study data queries as specified in the monthly quality assurance (QA) report.
Submission of weekly updates and quarterly reviews to your supervisor and the costing team.

Qualifications and other desirables for the job:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Cost Accounting, Finance, or Economics with a minimum of 2 years’ work experience in a similar field.
• Applicants must be highly competent in MS Excel (including formatting, formulas, and
• auditing) and MS Word.
• Candidates must be conversant with costing concepts and skilled in program costing
• methods
• Knowledge of and strong interest in TB cost-effectiveness issues
• The successful candidate will be required to take up the position immediately.

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