Deadline: 07 June, 2021
Location: Angola
World Health Organisation (WHO) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Surveillance Assistant.
The primary role of WHO is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations system.
Responsibilities
- Accelerate activities to boost Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance, including training and orientation of district/municipal staff, implementation of facility-based active surveillance for AFP using online tools such as e-Surv, ISS for all sites visited
- Conduct clinical and community sensitisation on surveillance, case investigation and follow up on AFP cases
- Ensure micro-planning and implementation of mopping-up immunisation activities, using house-to-house vaccine delivery to eliminate the final chains of transmission of cVDPV2
- Participate in activities at municipal/district level to improve the quality of supplementary immunisation activities, including the identification and immunisation of children never before immunised and ensure the highest possible coverage of all target children during all supplementary immunisation campaigns
- Conduct supervisory visits to immunisation team members in assigned priority areas as identified by the WHO office and national authorities and use the online SIA supervisory and monitoring
- Prepare report and conduct exit debriefing to district and provincial officers
- Perform other duties as may be requested by WHO or national authorities
Requirements
- Secondary school education with training in Health Sciences/Public Health
- Training in surveillance and immunisation will be an asset (desirable)
- Ten years of relevant experience in surveillance of notifiable diseases and or immunisation service delivery at district, provincial or national level
- Experience in responding to outbreak of polio or other vaccine preventable diseases such measles, yellow fever and other health emergencies will be an asset
- Field experience in public health case-based surveillance and immunisation response activities at sub-national level will be an asset
- Experience within WHO or another UN agency (desirable)
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) skills
To apply and for more information, click here.
Photo source: WHO/Pierre Virot
