Disease Surveillance Officer US NGO Jobs – Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)

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Job Title: Disease Surveillance Officer

Organisation: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)

Duty Station:  Mbarara, Uganda

Reports to: Technical Advisor – Health Systems Strengthening

 

About US:

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is a proven leader in the global fight to end HIV and AIDS, and an advocate for every child to live a full and healthy life into adulthood. Founded through a mother’s determination, we are driven to see a world where no other mother, child or family is devastated by this disease. For more than 30 years, EGPAF has been a leader in meeting urgent  needs  in  pediatric  HIV  and  AIDS  in  the  world’s  most  affected  regions.

 

Job Summary: The Disease Surveillance Officer will provide leadership and oversight for all notifiable diseases in the region. He/she will be responsible for monitoring and providing technical guidance on the management of Notifiable disease in the region. The region experiences outbreaks of notifiable diseases like Malaria, Measles, Ebola, Rift Valley Fever among others.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Design strategies that will ensure a robust surveillance system both at the health facilities and the communities within the southwestern region.
  • Monitoring all Notifiable diseases on a weekly basis and providing feedback and technical support to the district teams, health workers, and the MOH.
  • Provide technical support and build the capacity of the program team, district, and site teams on the prevention and management of the notifiable diseases as per MOH guidance.
  • Support district Task forces and rapid response teams on active surveillance, case findings, contact tracing, monitoring, and other outbreak response measures during disease outbreaks
  • Support the dissemination of policies, guidelines, and SOP for surveillance and epidemic response.
  • Provide technical support, and build the capacity of the CSOs/CBOs and other partners in community surveillance systems.
  • Support the development of early warning systems (including event-based and indicator-based surveillance) for epidemic and pandemic-prone diseases for early detection and response to public health incidents; conduct a field investigation.
  • Provide technical support for vulnerability assessment, risk mapping, and development of preparedness/contingency plan at the district level
  • Provide technical guidance during the development of the annual work plan and participates in the planning and budgeting activities, especially in regard to notifiable diseases.
  • Coordinate technical reporting according to the defined reporting schedule and write regular monitoring and technical reports as required by EGPAF and the donor.
  • Assist in identifying, documenting, disseminating, and scaling up best practices on notifiable diseases.
  • Any other job-related duties reasonably assigned


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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

  • The ideal applicant must hold a bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery, laboratory, Public Health or any other related field.
  • A master’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology or a related field is an added advantage.
  • At least three years’ experience working as a Disease Surveillance Officer
  • Experience in working in partnership with or within the MoH in notifiable disease or heath security
  • Knowledge of decentralized health system.
  • Self-driven and motivated employee
  • Good report writing skills
  • Monitoring and evaluation of projects.
  • Basic knowledge of research data collection methods
  • Experience working with an international non-profit/non-governmental organization (NGO)
  • Emotionally intelligent individual, with ability to resolve conflicts professionally

 

How to Apply:

Please submit a Cover Letter and Curriculum Vitae only as one file in PDF format through the careers link below addressed to:

 

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The Senior Human Resources Officer

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)

Plot 15, Kitante Close

P.O. Box 21127

Kampala, Uganda

 

NB: No Hand delivered applications will be accepted.

 

Deadline: Sunday 20th November 2022

 

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