Job Description
The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) wants to hire employees in the following vacant positions the details of which are mentioned bellow.
- Conduct supportive supervision and mentorship for Woreda Health Offices (WrHO) and health facilities (HFs) regarding EWARS (Preparedness, Early warning/surveillance, Response & Recovery components of PHEM)
- Provide capacity-building trainings on various PHEM agendas for PHEM officers, HCWs and HEWs.
- Assist WrHOs/HFs to conduct the early warning, alert and response tasks (EWARS)
- Provide technical assistance to WrHOs/HFs to conduct both event and indicator-based surveillances.
- Provide Technical Assistant (TA) to strengthen cross-border surveillance activities at point of entries.
- Assist public health risk communication & community engagement tasks (RCCE)
- Provide technical support to ensure the surveillance data qualities like report timeliness, completeness, etc are kept at national/international standards.
- Assist WrHO, HFs and ZHD in EWARS/PHEM data management and visualization, report-write ups, and dissemination.
- Assist in periodic surveillance reports productions like weekly epidemiological bulletin, feedbacks, SitRep/SpotRep, technical reports, presentations, and ad hoc reports on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
- Support emergency coordination platforms like PHEOC, RRT, TWG, DRM Council and DMAT in order to establish a functional PHEM system.
- Participate in public health emergencies responses and investigations like epidemic/pandemic response, health and nutrition emergency response and the likes
- Participates and represent the organization in different regional/sub-regional level review meetings, annual work plan, conference calls, coordination forums, etc
- Prepare different proposals and budget plans to implement surveillance agendas and emergency response.
- Prepare all weekly/quarterly progress reports, annual project report, ad-hoc technical reports, success stories and timely submit to the central team using required formats.
- Monitor and evaluate progress towards annual work plans, expected outputs, including selecting and monitoring progress in meeting indicators.
- Collaborate and work with key technical and program stakeholders on different PHEM agendas.
Job Requirements
- BSc degree in any health backgrounds plus master’s degree in Field Epidemiology/Epidemiology, or other public health fields.
- At least five (5) years’ work experience at regional or sub-regional level in the field of Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM)
- Deep understanding and knowledge of the Early Warning and Alert Response System (EWARS), particularly public health surveillance and emergency response.
- Having previous work experience in PHEOC is an added advantage.
- Experience of conducting trainings, supervision and mentorship
- Experience in proposal development, scientific report write ups and disseminations, as proven with publications.
- Excellent ability in software’s like Microsoft offices, Power BI, DHIS2-PHEM, ODK, SPSS, etc.
Note: The duty station might change to other areas based on needs.
More Information
- Address Ethiopia
- Experience Level Senior
- Total Years Experience 5-10