Deadline: 21 February, 2022

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Responsibilities

• Provide technical assistance to ensure the vision, mission and guiding values of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) are developed, communicated, and implemented by Africa CDC Regional Collaborating Centres (RCC) and implementing partners, as appropriate
• Provide expert advice and consultation to member states and partners regarding implementation of Africa CDC NCD strategic objectives, activities and programmes
• Support the implementation of inter-country collaboration on NCD surveillance monitoring and reporting, including data sharing and use, and promote engagement of countries’ regional and inter-regional prevention and control activities and programmes
• Support the implementation of Africa CDC policies to strengthen the control of endemic infectious diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis among member states
• Support the processes of strengthening quality of data collection, management, analysis and reporting
• Working with member states, support the process of improving Africa CDC access to health-related data through coordination, collaboration and technical assistance
• Support the implementation of Africa CDC activities, strengthening community health programmes in member states
• Provide technical leadership/support/facilitation for the implementation of Africa CDC policies
• Support other strategic initiatives and programmes
• Facilitate and coordinate development of standard operating procedures and monitoring and reporting mechanisms for strengthening regional and national NCD surveillance systems
• Facilitate and coordinate the development of tools and systems for the analysis, interpretation, and use of surveillance data for public health policymaking and to guide decisions on the prevention and control of NCDs and allocation of public health resources
• Facilitate and coordinate development of planning tools and reference guidance for regional NCD prevention and control capacity strengthening, working in collaboration with the NHPIs
• Under the direction of the designated Africa CDC incident commander, provide technical service delivery
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Masters’ degree in Public Health or a related discipline with seven years of relevant experience, with three years at expert level
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline with ten years of relevant experience, with three years at expert level
• Technical expertise and experience in supporting and/or managing complex, public health programmes related to disease prevention and control, epidemiology and surveillance and other health information systems
• Familiarity with the administrative and management practices and processes typically employed by public health and other public sector programmes
• Relevant experience in implementing public health programmes, with special emphasis on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
• Experience in epidemiology and surveillance or other public health programme and/or health sciences (desirable)
• Clear understanding of health systems in the African continent and fair knowledge of operations of the Ministry of Health in member states
• Knowledge of public health programmes, health sciences research and health system strengthening, and experience in supporting projects and programmes under government ministries and external donors
• Knowledge of public health issues in Africa, and experience working in Africa

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