Surveillance Officer (NO-C)

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This is a NO-C contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education. More about NO-C contracts.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

The objective of the program is to strengthen vaccine preventable disease control, including surveillance of vaccine preventable diseases; support the country to maintain the wild polio-free status; measles elimination, rubella control, introduce new and underutilized vaccines, transfer technology for the laboratory diagnosis of Vaccine Preventable Diseases and strengthen national regulatory authorities’ capacity.

Objectives of the Programme and of the immediate unit or field activity (Overview of the programme):

The mission of WHO is to help countries, and to coordinator international action, to prevent, prepare for, detect, rapidly respond to, and recover from outbreaks and emergencies.

Summary of Assigned Duties (Describe what the incumbent has to do to achieve main objectives; include main achievements expected):

The incumbent will report to the EPI Team Lead under the general guidance of the Head of the WHO country office. He/she will be responsible for carrying out the following activities related to the Vaccine Preventable Disease Surveillance program in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in South Sudan:

  1. Technical assistance (TA) to update, implement, monitor, and evaluate the national measles elimination and rubella control plan.
  2. Provide support to develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate integrated surveillance of AFP, Measles/ Rubella, Neonatal Tetanus, and Hepatitis, and develop weekly and monthly epidemiological bulletins on vaccine preventable diseases VPD surveillance.
  3. Support the update of surveillance guidelines to align with regional and global standards for the surveillance of VPDs and develop health works surveillance guidelines.
  4. Technical assistance for CRS surveillance and monitoring its trends for developing rubella vaccination policy. The same applies to new or underutilized vaccines.
  5. Guide the integration of VPD surveillance reports from partners and other players in the VPI arena.
  6. Provide technical assistance and coordinate with VPD labs to ensure quality assurance through accreditation & proficiency testing programmes, and implementation of validated, standard laboratory procedures.
  7. Provide technical assistance to various national expert group committees on VPDs, like the National committee for polio eradication, MR, Diphtheria, and CRS surveillance.
  8. Guide the AEFI surveillance, and ensure reporting is captured using identified tools.
  9. Strengthen Surveillance for Vaccine Preventable disease and facilitate the implementation of a national plan for polio eradication in line with global polio eradication and end-game strategic plan.
  10. Develop sustainability planning to use lessons learnt from polio eradication and polio infrastructure for other priority public health interventions.
  11. Work closely with other programmes in WCO Indonesia towards integrated services, such as MCH, UHC, WHE, HSS, and the health cluster.
  12. Any other duties assigned by the supervisor or WHO Representative

Education (Qualifications):

Essential: First level university degree in medicine, statistics, public health, or epidemiology from any accredited/recognized institute.

Desirable: Advanced university degree in quantitative epidemiology or health related field. specialized training in vaccine preventable diseases.

Experience:

Essential: At least five (05) years’ related experience in quantitative epidemiology and the implementation of public health surveillance, outbreak investigation and response in humanitarian settings.

Desirable: Prior humanitarian working experience at field level with WHO, other UN agencies, health cluster partners, recognized humanitarian organizations or with an international nongovernmental organization with expertise in disaster and outbreak.

Functional Skills and Knowledge (Describe skills and knowledge specific to the post):

  • Demonstrated knowledge of surveillance and monitoring systems as related to emergency response relief operations, complemented by skills in the field of epidemiological or statistical data collection, assessment, analysis and the evaluation and monitoring in a public health context.
  • Proven ability to multitask across various planning and implementation processes within a highly demanding environment.
  • Demonstrated knowledge, competency and professional skills on the public health aspects of infectious disease control, epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response with particular attention to application of an all-hazard approach in the context of the International Health Regulations and the use of event based and indicator based surveillance, as well as descriptive epidemiology and principles of public health in communicable disease surveillance and response.

WHO Competencies

Teamwork Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences Communication Producing results Knowing and managing yourself

Use of Language Skills

Essential: Expert knowledge of English. Desirable: Knowledge of local languages.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  • This vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade level

  • Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.

  • A written test may be used as a form of screening.

  • In the event that your candidature is retained for an interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require individual review.

  • Any appointment/extension of appointment is subject to WHO Staff Regulations, Staff Rules and Manual.

  • For information on WHO's operations please visit: http://www.who.int.

  • WHO is committed to workforce diversity.

  • WHO prides itself on a workforce that adheres to the highest ethical and professional standards and that is committed to put the WHO Values Charter into practice.

  • WHO has zero tolerance towards sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct (i.e., discrimination, abuse of authority and harassment). All members of the WHO workforce have a role to play in promoting a safe and respectful workplace and should report to WHO any actual or suspected cases of SEA, sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct. To ensure that individuals with a substantiated history of SEA, sexual harassment or other types of abusive conduct are not hired by the Organization, WHO will conduct a background verification of final candidates.

  • WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.

  • This is a National Professional Officer position. Therefore, only applications from nationals of the country where the duty station is located will be accepted. Applicants who are not nationals of this country will not be considered.

Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: who.int