Job Details:
Organisation: International Rescue Committee (IRC)-USA
Deadline Sun, 28 Dec 2014
Job type: Permanent
Location:
Sierra Leone
BACKGROUND: The International Rescue Committee, one of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies, provides relief, rehabilitation and post-conflict reconstruction support to victims of natural disaster, oppression and violent conflict in 42 countries. The IRC is committed to bold leadership, innovation and creative partnerships. Active in public health, education, livelihoods, women's empowerment, youth development, and protection and promotion of rights, IRC assists people from harm to home.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is unprecedented in scale and in the response required. No previous outbreak has had as many confirmed cases, or as wide of a geographic spread. The situation is complicated by the porous nature of the regions’ borders, inaccessibility of the terrain and the presence of multiple active sites of transmission. The outbreak in Sierra Leone started in May 2014 and has rapidly spread due to population movement, insufficient contact tracing, community fears and misperceptions.
The IRC is leading the Ebola Response Consortium (ERC), a group of ten non-governmental organizations who are supporting surveillance and contact tracing in nearly every district of Sierra Leone. The objective of this support is to provide technical support to ERC partners at the district level to ensure that surveillance activities can detect cases rapidly and enable isolation and treatment of cases immediately. Ensuring that surveillance needs (vehicles for investigation, training, technical expertise and analytical capacity) are met in the most timely way possible is the key to ensuring nationwide progress in improving surveillance.
SCOPE OF WORK:
The surveillance manager is responsible for supporting IRC and the consortium partners in undertaking and strengthening the surveillance system at the district level. To date, much work has been done in constructing the building blocks of alert and response—ensuring adequate phones, cars, etc.—and we now need to move towards increasing the completeness and accuracy of the work. A surveillance manager would be able to provide mentorship to teams working at the district level and work closely with CDC and WHO to do so.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide rapid and exacting technical assistance to ERC partners in the core aspects of surveillance for a large-scale Ebola outbreak: alert and dispatch systems, case investigation, contact tracing, data analysis and visualization
- Analyze surveillance activities in a systematic manner and report on the performance of the system
- Travel to districts to provide on-the-job mentorship to partners
- Work closely with CDC, WHO and the MOH in each district to identify weakness in the system
- Conduct rapid assessments of surveillance systems for each district and ERC partner capacity; develop plans for improving surveillance systems at the district level
- Conduct trainings with national and partner surveillance staff as required
REQUIREMENTS:
- Master’s degree in epidemiology or public health
- At least one year of experience in conducting surveillance activities for a public health agency
- Experience working in a multi-cultural setting and in preference in Africa
- Demonstrated experience, or ability to rapidly learn Ebola surveillance activities
- Previous work on surveillance in a developing country or an emergency
- Completion of a Field Epidemiology Training Program is an asset
- Ability to start immediately
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Ebola Response Consortium (ERC) Surveillance Manager
Job posted by: International Rescue Committee (IRC)-USA - Wed, 29 Oct 2014Job Details:
Organisation: International Rescue Committee (IRC)-USA
Deadline Sun, 28 Dec 2014
Job type: Permanent
Location: Sierra Leone
BACKGROUND: The International Rescue Committee, one of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies, provides relief, rehabilitation and post-conflict reconstruction support to victims of natural disaster, oppression and violent conflict in 42 countries. The IRC is committed to bold leadership, innovation and creative partnerships. Active in public health, education, livelihoods, women's empowerment, youth development, and protection and promotion of rights, IRC assists people from harm to home.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is unprecedented in scale and in the response required. No previous outbreak has had as many confirmed cases, or as wide of a geographic spread. The situation is complicated by the porous nature of the regions’ borders, inaccessibility of the terrain and the presence of multiple active sites of transmission. The outbreak in Sierra Leone started in May 2014 and has rapidly spread due to population movement, insufficient contact tracing, community fears and misperceptions.
The IRC is leading the Ebola Response Consortium (ERC), a group of ten non-governmental organizations who are supporting surveillance and contact tracing in nearly every district of Sierra Leone. The objective of this support is to provide technical support to ERC partners at the district level to ensure that surveillance activities can detect cases rapidly and enable isolation and treatment of cases immediately. Ensuring that surveillance needs (vehicles for investigation, training, technical expertise and analytical capacity) are met in the most timely way possible is the key to ensuring nationwide progress in improving surveillance.
SCOPE OF WORK:
The surveillance manager is responsible for supporting IRC and the consortium partners in undertaking and strengthening the surveillance system at the district level. To date, much work has been done in constructing the building blocks of alert and response—ensuring adequate phones, cars, etc.—and we now need to move towards increasing the completeness and accuracy of the work. A surveillance manager would be able to provide mentorship to teams working at the district level and work closely with CDC and WHO to do so.
RESPONSIBILITIES
REQUIREMENTS:
Please follow this link to apply: http://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=ZGFwaG5lZC4yMzA2OC40ODEwQGlyYy5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20