Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, May 07, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
WHO is providing financial and technical assistance to the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC) as well as the MOH in Zanzibar to strengthen response measures aimed at mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on human lives. A critical component of response in COVID-19 is Logistics Management. In this regard, WHO wants to recruit temporary staff to support logistics activities for COVID-19 response at the national level, and sometimes at sub national levels when needed. In the context of the WHO Health Emergencies incident management system, at the country level, the incumbent will implement technical activities directed towards logistics of outbreaks and health emergencies, support quantification and forecasting of health products needs of the country, maintain overall situational awareness of the event as well as the location and status of all deployed resources as well as Facilitate procurement of supplies including treatment kits (local or international). Recruited staff may be deployed to the regions (as per needs) to support the regions as per the TORs below. In the country of assignment, reporting to the Team Lead, and based on priorities set by the Incident Manager and the WHO Head of Country Office, and working closely with other logisticians, the incumbent will act as a logistics expert for the WHE programme. The incumbent will work in close collaboration with relevant technical officers at the national level. .

Summary of Assigned Duties:
• Conduct refresher training for laboratory scientists on biosafety and biosecurity and COVID-19 molecular testing in collaboration NHLQATC
• Co-ordinate and manage sample collection and transportation to the testing laboratories
• Work closely with the Director and laboratory manager of NHLQATC to document laboratory response activities of the COVID-19 pandemic within the context emergencies programme at the country level.
• Provide technical support of the validation of various COVID-19 assays, technologies and trouble-shooting of laboratory procedures and methodologies
• Monitor the performance of all COVID-19 testing laboratories using AFRO-regional performance monitoring tool and support corrective action(s) in collaboration with NHLQATC
• Perform any other incident-specific related duties, as required by the functional supervisor
Objectives of the Review
The mission of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme (The Programme) is to help countries, and to coordinator international action, to prevent, prepare for, detect, rapidly respond to, and recover from outbreaks and emergencies

Job Skills: Not Specified

Specific Requirements
• Desirable: Working knowledge of other UN language is an added advantage.
• Essential: First level university degree in health-related profession, laboratory, medicine or nursing from an accredited/recognized institute
• Desirable: A master’s degree in FELTP, Molecular Biology, microbiology, virology or any of the areas related to the functions of the position, from a recognized university.
• Essential: At least five years’ related experience working with laboratory program addressing infectious diseases both emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, 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 organi¬zations or with an international nongovernmental organization with expertise in disaster and outbreak response.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Interested and qualified applicants should send cover letter and comprehensive resume to the WHO Country Representative via the following email addresses afwcotzremit@who.int ; afwcotz@who.int  or use the following link to apply online https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobsearch.ftl  

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