Epidemiology and Surveillance Specialist at Family Health International Job Listing at Family Health International in New York, NY (Job ID 5474436-2024-10-03)

Description

Job Summary:

The Epidemiology and Surveillance Specialist will provide technical support, manage staff, and monitor epidemiological surveillance strengthening activities of the anticipated USAID-funded Global Health Security projects. S/He will provide technical support to the Ministries of Health, Agriculture, and Environment and their structural divisions on developing and/or updating infectious disease detection and surveillance strategies. S/He will take the lead on planning and Implementing activities to improve the quality and performance of epidemiology and surveillance services. Provide technical support and guidance around the issues, challenges, and strategies for improving access to quality affecting the project. S/He will contribute, technical inputs to the annual work planning at the country level, lead in developing guidelines and policies for the epidemiology and surveillance strengthening activities, and participate in technical meetings, and thought leadership at the country level.

S/He will work closely with the project and headquarters (HQ) teams by evaluating program effectiveness, oversee technical aspects, and provide technical assessment reports. S/He will contribute to business development efforts, including supporting the management of opportunity identification, capture, and strategic partnering.

Technical Requirements:

• Provides project staff with overall technical direction and guidance on epidemiological surveillance in line with the project's expected outcomes.

• Provides strategic leadership and guidance to the epidemiology and surveillance component of the project in coordination with other project technical areas. Provides technical experts advice in preparing training materials, standard operating procedures, and job aids and delivers training to epidemiologists, disease surveillance officers, project staff and partners.

• Monitors and maintains project protocols, instruments, data sets, manuals, training materials, and reports related to technical areas of expertise.

• Works closely with the national counterparts and teams to provide the technical assistance required to fulfill national objectives and targets, especially those related to the epidemiological surveillance strategic plans

• Develops or writes technical briefs, reports, or other necessary materials to facilitate research, best practices, policies, and procedures.

• Conducts analysis of project implementation to identify areas for improvement and propose appropriate technical strategies and guidelines.

• Coordinates closely with the global surveillance team to ensure synergies and experience sharing within and across global health security countries.

• Provides onsite and on-the-job technical assistance to epidemiologists and others as required and requested as part of overall capacity-building and continuous improvement schemes.

• Provides technical assistance to develop and implement plans to expand passive surveillance systems into active surveillance for priority diseases and to serve as an enhanced early warning surveillance system.

• Provides technical assistance to strengthen national expertise to manage health management information system platforms (including laboratory information systems), analyze data, and produce surveillance reports and other visualizations aligned with evidence-based best practices, and international standards. May create technical portion of the project plan, within the given resources and financial constraints.

• Assists with implementing components of the technical portions of the project plan

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