Surveillance Officer – Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) Vacancy Announcement

Key performance Areas  

• 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.

Work Unit :- ERCS- Dire-Dawa Branch ,The USAID/Ethiopia Health Resilience Activity

Reports to: ERCS- Dire-Dawa Branch ,The USAID/Ethiopia Health Resilience

Terms of employment: – Contract for one year

Place of Work: – ERCS- Dire-Dawa Branch

Qualification Requirements:

• Master/Degree in any health backgrounds in Field Epidemiology or other public health fields.
• 4/6 years related work experience at regional or sub-regional level in the field of Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM).

Key competencies

• 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