29 SSA- Surveillance Officers for COVID-19 Job at WHO - Career Opportunity in Tanzania
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Vacancy title:
29 SSA- Surveillance Officers for COVID-19

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Management ]

 

Jobs at:

WHO

Deadline of this Job:
09 May 2020  

Duty Station:
Within Tanzania , Dar es Salaam , East Africa

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:
• Co-develop the guidelines, tools and indicators for effective disease surveillance at the subnational and community levels, where necessary.
• Participate in the process of verification and risk assessment on reported COVID-19 cases.
• Strengthen the capacities of surveillance teams for the effective and sustained surveillance of COVID-19 through training on field investigation, detection, contact tracing, data management, and rapid response to epidemics and health emergencies.
• Support surveillance activities including community-based surveillance, cross-border surveillance and PoE surveillance within the framework of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR);
• Support in depth investigation of COVID-19 and active case and search and make appropriate recommendations for action to region and National task force.
• Support the field incident manager in coordination and oversight the surveillance, laboratory and case management.
• Conduct, in collaboration with other team members and PHEOC Manager, real-time analysis of outbreak intelligence data, from a broad range of sources including non¬ health sectors, for epidemic forecasting and detection.
• Support the establishment of Alert management system (if applicable i.e. if not in existence)
• Ensure availability of core data and other information on related technical areas such as: case incidence; case management surveillance data; laboratory surveillance data; contact tracing, etc.;
• Analyze, systematize, and disseminate scientific and evidence-based technical information and knowledge; support the development of the WHO Situation Reports, other related regular and ad-hoc surveillance reports.
• Perform any other incident-specific related duties, as required by the functional supervisor.
Technical Supervision
Objectives of the Review
The mission of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme (The Programme) is to help countries, and to coordinate international action, to prevent, prepare for, detect, rapidly respond to, and recover from outbreaks and emergencies.

Job Skills: Not Specified


SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
• Essential: Excellent knowledge of the English.
• Desirable: Working knowledge of Swahili, Knowledge of French or other UN language.
• Essential: First level university degree in medicine, nursing, environmental health, epidemiology, statistics or database management from an accredited/recognized institute Desirable: Advanced university degree in epidemiology, public health or health related field. Specialized training in communicable diseases.
Experience:
• Essential: At least two 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 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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Job Info
Job Category: Corporate / Organisation Officer jobs in Tanzania
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job:  09 May 2020
Duty Station: Tanzania
Posted: 07-05-2020
No of Jobs: 29
Start Publishing: 07-05-2020
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 07-05-2065
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