Research Assistant (12 Months Contract) Medical Entomology

Main purpose of the job:

• Assist with preparation, data capturing, and data input for trials

Location:

• 1 Modderfontein Road, Sandringham, Johannesburg

Key performance areas:

• Will be responsible for maintaining a clean working space in the Eldana room
• Ensure the temperature and humidity within the room are within the specified ranges and that the recordings are written in the information sheet daily
• Preparing mating cups and individual mating boxes and mating cups daily
• To prepare mating boxes that need to be irradiated on a daily basis
• To record all relevant data on the assigned datasheet
• Pack egg sheets carefully and package them into a cooler box with ice bricks before sending the harvested eggs to SASRI once a week
• Must count moth eclosions on a daily basis
• Handling pupae and moths
• Egg counts and hatching for sterility measures
• To prepare mating cups with individual mating pairs both unsterilized female and sterilized male
• Inoculate Eldana diet with eggs and monitor through to adult stage – F1 generation data comparison

Required minimum education and training:

• Degree/diploma in science or agricultural-related

Required minimum work experience:

• 1 to 2 years of insect rearing and laboratory experience

Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities:

• Must be able to work well independently as well as in a team
• Must be able to communicate well, both written and spoken
• Must be willing to learn
• Must be able to handle multiple tasks

TO APPLY:

• Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
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• Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
• The closing date for all applications: 27 May 2022.
• Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
• Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful.

Please note:

• Our Client, WHC, maintains mandatory Covid-19 requirements, and as such only Covid-19 vaccinated incumbents will be considered for positions.
• WHC, in accordance with its Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.
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• AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position.