# Laboratory Manager

**Company**: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
**Location**: Harare
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Laboratory Manager to oversee laboratory services for Migration Health Assessments and other programs in Harare, Zimbabwe.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Organizing laboratory services to ensure efficient and optimal service delivery

- Ensuring facilities and bio-safety measures meet international standards and country requirements

- Maintaining up-to-date Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and conducting annual reviews

- Implementing internal quality controls and external quality assessments

- Managing laboratory staff, including recruitment, training, and supervision

- Contributing to annual planning and budget preparation for laboratory services

- Procuring and managing equipment and consumables

- Developing and maintaining a system for record keeping and information management

- Liaising with national laboratories, IOM units, and international partners

- Implementing a system for service improvement and long-term planning

The ideal candidate will have:

- A university degree in Medical Laboratory Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, or a related field

- Four years of relevant experience in laboratory diagnostics, including TB laboratory diagnostics

- At least two years of supervisory or laboratory management experience

- Technical expertise in mycobacteriology and TB diagnostics

- Strong knowledge of TB laboratory biosafety, quality assurance, and quality management systems

- Experience with laboratory accreditation processes and external quality assessment programs

- Fluency in English and Shona

IOM offers a range of benefits, including a respectful and inclusive work environment, opportunities for professional growth and development, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

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## Skills

### Required
- Medical Laboratory Sciences
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology
- TB laboratory diagnostics
- Laboratory management
- Quality assurance
- Biosafety

### Nice to have
- Laboratory accreditation
- External quality assessment
- Shona language

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