Haramaya University

Child Health and Mortality Surveillance (CHAMPS) Ethiopia

Bio-Medical Engineer (BME)  

We  are  seeking  to  appoint  a  full  time  multi-skilled  and  experienced  Bio-Medical  Engineer (BME) to be based in Harar, Ethiopia. The role is to support development of a medical research laboratory of a new Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance site in Harar, Ethiopia. This  is  a  collaboration  between  Haramaya  University,  the  London  School  of  Hygiene  & Tropical Medicine and Emory Global Health Institute. CHAMPS laboratories are located at the College  of Health and Medical Sciences,  and at Hiwot Fana Hospital in Harar at present, although laboratory work in Kersa District is possible in the long term. The post-holder will be responsible for carrying out routine equipment maintenance and equipment checks primarily for CHAMPS, but should assist with other medical equipment when time permits. They will be expected to: liaise with the University Biomedical Engineer, work closely with sub-contracted Biomedical engineers during installation, preventative maintenance and servicing of newly purchased equipment, and existing equipment.

HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY, OROMIA, ETHIOPIA

Haramaya University is one of the oldest Universities in Ethiopia, with its first intake in 1954.

It is about 17km from the city of Harar, 40km from Dire Dawa (where there is a regional airport), and 510km East of Addis Ababa. The College of Health and Medical Sciences is based on a campus in Harar town to facilitate training of students in nearby hospitals. This campus also hosts the office of the two Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS).

CHILD HEALTH AND MORTALITY PREVENTION SURVEILLANCE NETWORK (CHAMPS)

The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance network (CHAMPS, http://champshealth.org/)  is  a  new  global  health  surveillance  network  funded  by  the  Bill  & Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at understanding the causes of child death in developing countries, particularly sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The Emory Global Health Institute, which  houses  the  U.S.  office  of  the  International  Association  of  National  Public  Health Institutes (IANPHI), is the lead partner in the network and has worked with the London School of Hygiene to develop the collaboration with Haramaya University.                    

                       JOB DESCRIPTION

Post:                                                          Bio-Medical Engineer

Location                                                   Haramaya University, Oromia, Ethiopia

Responsible to:                                    Nega Assefa

Full Time/Part Time/Casual:    Full time

No. of posts                                                   1

Duration of contract                      Available until June 2018 with likely extension

Salary:                                                      12,000 Birr per month

Place of Application                       Haramaya University Human Resource and Development

Directorate office, Administration Building 1^st Floor, Room No. 114 or

Haramaya University Liaison Office at Addis Ababa, Arat Kilo.

Former Germany Cultural Institute Building Office No.15.

Deadline for Application      Within 6 (Six) Working days after the announcement of this vacancy

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

The post-holder will work full-time at the CHAMPS site in Haramaya, Eastern Ethiopia.  The post-holder will be responsible for performing planned preventive maintenance (PPM) based on approved PPM procedures; maintain all the laboratory equipment and inspect electrical installation; execute all related biomedical engineering work to establish safe, secure and 24 hour functioning laboratories to support CHAMPS activities. They will be expected to:  inspect, install,  configure,  repair,  service,  and  troubleshoot  technical  problems  associated  with  all laboratory equipment and peripheral services such as lighting, power and water supply.

Key Responsibilities

1. To carry out inspection, installation and configuration of newly purchased medical laboratory equipment.
2. To conduct safety checks on CHAMPS laboratory building systems and carry out inspection of electrical installation of laboratory devices.
3. To prepare troubleshooting standard operating procedures for preventive maintenance purpose for each equipment.
4. To keep accurate and up to date maintenance logs, and prepare life history of each equipment and parts inventory of the CHAMPS laboratory equipment.
5. To provide training to end users, on the safe and proper use of laboratory equipment to avoid any electrical related accidents.
6. To operate specialized test-equipment in troubleshooting, calibrating and maintaining laboratory equipment, and develop a good working relationship with the technical supply team to try and remotely fix any technical problem.
7. To prepare installation and maintenance cost for CHAMPS peripheral laboratory equipment such as generator.
8. To identify replacement parts, perform urgent repairs on laboratory equipment at the two laboratory sites.
9. To participate in the on-going renovation work of new laboratory work space at the main site, by advising the electrician on specific electrical installation points (socket levels, and switch) for the laboratory equipment, including other electrical items such as air conditioning, freezers, fridges and generator.
10. To work with the university plumber to ensure constant water supply to the laboratory by checking that the tank has sufficient amount of water at all times.
11. Assist with maintaining appropriate light intensity in the laboratory, ensure that emergency fluorescent tubes, fires extinguishers are installed and working properly.

This job description reflects the present requirements of the post but may be altered at any time in the future as duties and responsibilities change and/or develop providing there is full consultation with the post-holder. The post-holder will carry out any other duties, tasks or responsibilities as reasonably requested by the line manager, Dr Nega Assefa.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential requirements

1. Bachelor of Science in Bio-medical Engineering.
2.  Experience in carrying out routine maintenance of medical laboratory equipment.
3.  Excellent oral and written communications skills in Amharic.
4.  Good level command of English language to communicate with technical supply team during trouble shooting difficulties.
5. Ability to use computers and standard Microsoft office packages

Desirable requirements

1. Excellent oral and written communications in English
2. Experience in an accredited laboratory

በምረቃ እለት 01-11-09 ዓ.ም ለሚመጡ የተለያዩ የተማሪዎች ቤተሰብ የትራንስፖርት ችግር
እንዳያጋጥማቸው ከዩኒቨርስቲያችን ወደ ሐረማያ ከተማ የሚያመላልሱ አውቶቢሶችን ያዘጋጀን
በመሆኑ ይህንንም አገልግሎት ለአንድ ጉዞ 2.00 (ሁለት) ብር ብቻ ሲሆን የጉዞ መነሻ ቦታ
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የአገልግሎቱ ተጠቃሚ እንድትሆኑ የትራንስፖርት ስምሪትባ ጋራዥ ክፍል እያሳወቀ በወቅቱ
በትራንስፖርቱ ላይ ለሚያጋጥማችሁ ችግር በስልክ ቁጥር 09 11 85 27 54 ላይ በመደወል
ልታሳውቁን የምትችሉ መሆኑን እናሳውቃለን፡፡

The College of Natural and Computation Sciences held a National Curriculum Review Workshop on June 17, 2017. The day long workshop reviewed two PhD and one MSc curricula in Chemistry (Materials Chemistry) and Physics (Environmental Physics and Renewable Energy Physics). The workshop was opened by the guest of honor, Dr. Belaineh Legesse, Vice-president for Administration and Student Affairs of Haramaya University (HU). His main remarked that introduced curricula must be measured not by the number of students they are going to graduate, rather by the impact they will make on the existing realities of the nation and reviewers and other participants should give more focus on providing developers constructive criticisms they require to improving the quality and content of the curricula.

Dr. Getachew Abebe, Dean of the College said, “There were necessary steps the curricula have gone through before they were ready for National Review Workshop. The curricula are demand driven which are based on the positive need assessment results justifying the opening of the programs.”  He also added in house review workshop was also held and experts’ comments were inculcated to further improve the curricula.

The review workshop was run in two sessions. The morning session was dedicated for the presentation and review of the PhD program in Physics (Environmental Physics and Renewable Energy Physics) which the Department of Physics is planning to open in the coming academic year. The review was rigorously undertaken inviting five prominent experts from Addis Ababa, Bahir Dar and Haramaya universities. The curriculum were also assessed from the pedagogical points of view by experts for the College of Education and behavioral Sciences of HU.

The other curricula, PhD and MSc in Materials Chemistry were reviewed during the afternoon session where a number of experts in the area were in attendance. Reviewers from Addis Ababa, ASTU (Addis Ababa and Adama) and Haramaya universities actively contributed for the betterment of the document. Likewise the pedagogical suitability of the curricula was also assessed by the experts.

Finally, closing remark and compliments to the organizers and reviewers were delivered by Dr. Yifashewa Seyoum, Director for Academic Programs and delegate of Vice-president for Academic Affairs.  The draft curricula are expected to be presented to the University Senate and MoE, and if approved, the programs will be launched soon.

Haramaya University has graduated 8479 students in different fields of studies on July 8, 2017 in a colorful ceremony held at the university’s Afren kello hall in the morning and afternoon shifts in the presence of distinguished guests and families of the graduates. Among the total graduates, 29 of them were PhD graduates, 668 were Masters, 736 in Postgraduate Diploma and 7046 in First degree. Of the total graduates 2700(27 %) of them were female students.

Prof. Nigussie Dechassa, Vice President for Academic Affairs of the university, while addressing an opening remark, has welcomed the invited guests and families of the graduates. Pro.Nigussie has also expressed his best wishes to the graduating students.

President of Haramaya University, Prof. Chemeda Finnisa, has congratulated the graduates on their landmark achievements. He has also congratulated parents, teachers and families of the graduates for being able to see their students/ children achievements.

Prof. Chemeda has also made a comprehensive speech about the university’s academic, research and community service activities performed in the 2016/17 academic year.

Calling up on graduates he said, “As educated citizens, you are expected to make greater contributions to the efforts being made to create a prosperous Ethiopia. You are expected to serve the nation with a high sense of commitment and professionalism.”
In his last speech, Prof. Chemeda has thanked supporters and friends of the University Keen Efforts and contributions they have made during the academic year.

Speaking on the occasion and the guest of honor of the event, President of the Oromia National Regional State, Mr Lemma Megersa, has congratulated the graduates for their successful achievements. Mr Lemma said, “Education is a key to achieve the aspiration for the development of the country. Today we are seeing the role of education in realizing and fastening radical changes in the country.”

In his speech, Mr Lemma appreciated the contribution of HU in the overall development of the country by producing skilled manpower in different fields of studies working in different organizations as scientists, academicians and researchers. He emphasized also the role of the university in the enhancement of the overall development of the country in the agriculture sector.

During the ceremony, Deans of colleges presented the graduates in their respective colleges and high scorer students from each departments have received awards from the guest of honors of the ceremony, Mr Lemma Megersa, President of the Oromia National regional State and Mr Sileshi Getahun, Deputy Vice –President of Oromia National Regional State and Head of Bureau of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and chairperson of Haramaya University Board

This publication emanated from the International Conference on Impact of El Niño on Biodiversity, Agriculture, and Food Security, which was held from 23-24 February 2017 at Haramaya University, Ethiopia. The conference was organized by Haramaya University, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. We believe that this publication will be a source of useful information and knowledge for the scientific community and the wider public for tackling the impact of El Niño on biodiversity, agriculture, and food security.

This publication emanated from the International Conference on Impact of El Niño on Biodiversity, Agriculture, and Food Security, which was held from 23-24 February 2017 at Haramaya University, Ethiopia. The conference was organized by Haramaya University, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. We believe that this publication will be a source of useful information and knowledge for the scientific community and the wider public for tackling the impact of El Niño on biodiversity, agriculture, and food security.

The BENEFIT-ISSD East Oromia Unit organized and conducted a two-day training of trainers (TOT) on Cooperative Organizational and Financial Management, Marketing, and Business Plan Development for partners and stakeholders at Harar city from 14-15August 2017.

A total of 13 trainees from Haramaya and Oda Bultum universities, Chercher Oda Bultum Union, Fedis Agricultural Research Center, East and West Hararghe Zones Cooperative Agencies and Woreda Cooperative Agencies from (Babile, Kersa, Habro, Oda Bultum and Mieso) participated in the training.

During the opening ceremony, Dr. Mengistu Ketema, Director for Research Extension and Publication Directorate of Haramaya University, stated the objectives of the project and recommended that the trainees attend the training with a purpose to ensure the transfer of knowledge and skills to partner’s on Seed Producers’ Cooperatives (SPCs) levels.

According to Dr. Mengistu, lack of knowledge and skill in the areas of organisational and financial management, marketing, and business plan development were found to be the most serious gaps affecting primary cooperatives in Hararghe zones in general and SPCs in particular. Hence, capacity building of partners and stakeholders working with SPCs is indispensable.

Capacitating experts and focal persons on cooperative organizational and financial management, marketing, and business plan development; strengthening linkage and collaboration with regional, zonal and woreda cooperative agencies; transferring knowledge and skills to partners and stakeholders of seed producers cooperatives; and ensuring state-of-the-art of the organizational and seed business development and management approach in SPCs were points of focus in the training.

In the two days training briefing of cooperative organisation management, concept of good governance in cooperative, power and role of boards of directors in cooperative governance, Cooperative leadership and its challenge, Basic values and ethics in cooperatives, membership and gender participation (women, men and youth participation), and Women participation in cooperative leadership ; Principles and mechanisms of quality seed marketing, seed value chain actors in seed production and marketing, standard store and seed management, principles of quality seeds production and marketing, major problems of poor quality seed in marketing, and recommendation to put in place to solve quality seed problems were covered during the training.

Participants were also informed of financial management in primary cooperatives in order to be able to plan for the future in such a way that they develop knowledge and skills for financial planning and budgeting, financial analysis and financial decision-making. Record keeping and documentation through the argument “ink doesn’t rot” one individual’s experience in life was briefly addressed.

The training also covered; internal and external sources of cooperatives funds to develop capital and investments that help to promote the welfare of all the members and also principles and mechanisms of quality seed marketing, seed value chain actors in seed production and marketing, standard store and seed management, principles of quality seeds production and marketing, major problems of poor quality seed in marketing, and recommendation to put in place to solve quality seed problems.

During the general discussion, trainees raised issues they consider to be of importance and the way forward was indicated. Awareness creation to top officials on seed producers’ development and marketing to get buy-in was recommended, and it was also mentioned that SPCs partners such as universities role to effectively incorporate the technical quadrant of LSB development where the other quadrant could be supported by cooperative agencies and unions. In addition, it was pointed out that the training could have included primary agricultural cooperatives other than supported by ISSD. The training created a sense of ownership among zone and woreda cooperative agencies representatives.

Mr. Mergia Beyene, BENEFIT-ISSD Project Manager, made a closing remark and appreciated the trainees’ active participation in the training and emphasized the importance of the project in the efforts being made towards sustainable seed business development in the country-wide to attain household income security and economic development.

ድህረ-ምረቃፕሮግራምዳይሬክቶሬት

የሐረማያ ዩኒቨርሲቲ መደበኛ ያልሆነው የድህረ-ምረቃ ፕሮግራም ለ2010 ትምህርት ዘመን በነባርና አዲስ የተከታታይ ትምህርት ዘርፎች አዲስ ተማሪዎችን ተቀብሎ በድህረ-ምረቃ ተከታታይ ፕሮግራም (ቅዳሜና እሁድ) ማስተማር ይፈልጋል፡፡

ስለሆነም ማንኛውም አመልካች ከነሐሴ 29/2009 ዓ/ም ጀምሮ ለዚሁ ተግባር የተዘጋጀውን የማመልከቻ ቅጽ ብር 50 (አምሳ) በመክፈል፤ ቅጹን በመሙላትና የመጀመሪያ ድግሪ ትምህርትና ሌሎች ማስረጃዎችን በማያያዝ ዘወትር በሥራ ቀናት ሐረማያ ዩኒቨርሲቲ ድህረ-ምረቃ ፕሮግራም ዳይሬክቶሬት ቢሮ ቁጥር 4 ማቅረብ ይቻላል:: የምዕራብ ሐረርጌ አመልካቾች ማመልከቻችሁን በጭሮ ከተማ ለሚገኘው ኦዳቦልቶም ዩኒቨርሲቲ ለሀረማያ ዩኒቨርሲቲ ተከታታይ ትምህርት አስተባባሪ መስጠት የሚቻል መሆኑን እንገልፃለን::

የመመዝገቢያ ጊዜ፡: ከነሐሴ 29/2009 እስከ መስከረም 15/2010 ዓ/ም

የሚሰጡ የትምህርት ዘርፎች የሚከተሉት ናቸው::
1. የትምህርት ሥራ አመራርና አስተዳደር (Educational Leadership and Management, MA)
2. ሶሾሎጂ (Sociology, MA)
3. ሰላም እና ልማት ጥናት (Peace and Development Studies, M.A.)
4. ሶሻል ሳይኮሎጂ (Social Psychology, MA)
5. ሥርዓተ-ጾታ እና ልማት ጥናት (Gender & Development Studies, M.A.)
6. Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management (M.A.)
7. Geography and Environmental Studies (Specialization in Environment & Land Resource Management; Specialization in Urban and Regional Development Planning(M.A.)
8. አፋን ኦሮሞ ሊንጉስቲክ (Afan Oromo Linguistics, M.A.)
9. ኦሮሞኛ ስነሥሑፍ (Afan Oromo Literature, M.A.)
10. አፋን ኦሮሞ ቲቺንግ (Afan Oromo and Literature Teaching, M.A)

የመመዝገቢያ ቅጽና ዝርዝር መረጃ: ሐረማያ ዩኒቨርሲቲ ድህረ-ምረቃ ፕሮግራም ዳይሬክቶሬት ቢሮ ቁጥር 4 ወይም በሐረማያ ዩኒቨርሲቲ ድህረ ገጽ www.haramaya.edu.et. ይገኛል::

Haramaya University conducted a kick-off meeting to launch a project named InnovAfrica from 21 to 24 August 2017. Participants came from Norwegian Institute of Bio-economy Research (Norway), Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek (The Netherlands), Oda Bultum Farmers’ Cooperative Union, Afran Qallo Farmers’ Cooperative Union, Oromia Agricultural Output Marketing Enterprise, Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, and East Hararghe Zone Bureau of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Opening the meeting, Dr. BelainehLegesse, Vice-President for Administration and Student Services lauded Prof. Nigussie Dechassa and his team members for exerting the efforts required to make the winning of this EU project a reality together with the other 15 international collaborators across Africa and Europe. He expressed the university’s commitment to providing full supports for implementing the project.

Prof. Nigussie Dechassa, Manager of the Project, made a presentation to highlight the major activities of the project. After giving detailed descriptions of the project and activities to be done, he reminded participants of the meeting that it was for the first time in its history that the university won a European Union (EU) project of such a big multi-partner platform. In this connection, he noted that the multi-stakeholder partnership prospect provided by the project would mean a lot for the university in terms of furthering its partnership across the globe and attaining its aspiration of becoming a strong teaching, research, and outreach hub of agriculture in Africa.

He also disclosed that the project is based on EU-Africa Research and Innovation Partnership on Food and Nutrition Security in sub-Saharan Africa (FNSSA). He indicated that the EU-Africa Partnership is based on the Joint Africa-EU Strategy, a document jointly negotiated and agreed by the African Union and European Union institutions, as well as by the African States and the EU Member States in 2007.

The Project is titled “Technology, Institutional, and Extension Approaches towards Sustainable Agriculture and Enhanced Food and Nutritional Security in Africa (InnovAfrica)”.
The other 15 collaborating partners include Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (coordinator), Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute Hub (Kenya), Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Kenya National Farmers’ Federation, University of Malawi, Soils Food and Healthy Communities Organization (Malawi), Rwanda Agriculture Board, Modern Dairy Farmers’ Cooperative (Rwanda), Sokoine University of Agriculture (Tanzania), Universita Degli Studi Della Tuscia (Italy), StichtingDienstLandbouwkundigOnderzoek (The Netherlands), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Agricultural Research Council (South Africa), CIMMYT-South Africa Regional office, KIAG Grundbesitz GmbH (Germany).
The main objective of InnovAfrica Project is to improve Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) by integrating sustainable agriculture intensification (SAI) systems, innovative institutional approaches (IIAs) with novel extension and advisory services (EASs) and enhancing smallholder adaptive capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
The project aims at addressing main challenges of the EU work programme SFS-42-2016, which is “Promoting food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture in Africa: the role of innovation” through a strong multidisciplinary EU-Africa consortium of the16 partners, supported by 6 active Multi-Actor Platforms (MAPs) in six case countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and South Africa). The project will test, integrate, and disseminate SAI systems suitable for smallholders, institutional approaches (e.g. MAPs, seed delivery systems) and EASs (e.g. dynamic knowledge platforms supported by smart phones, Village Knowledge centers).
The Project will be conducted in two selected districts in East Hararghe Zone: Kombolcha and Meta.
A number of issues related to the launching and implementation of the project were deliberated on, and a detailed a work plan for the first year of the project was drafted. In addition, the project sites were visited and discussions were made and agreements reached with farmers on the innovations to be tested and on how to start implementing the project. Multi-actor platform members of the project, namely, Oda Bultum Farmers’ Cooperative Union, Afran Qallo Farmers’ Cooperative Union, Oromia Agricultural Output Marketing Enterprise, Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, and East HaragheZone Bureau of Agriculture and Natural Resources signed the Terms of Reference (TOR).

The meeting was concluded by noting the work packages to be undertaken in the current year and placing timeline of conducting the tasks. The work packages to be undertaken by the Project team of the University include review and mapping existing extension and advisory services EASs, Innovative Muti-Actor Platforms (MAPs), innovative technologies and farmer-led experimentations, agri-food value chains, agri policies and innovation pathways, innovative knowledge exchange, dissemination, and impacts.