Disease Surveillance Officer NGO Careers – Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Job Title: Disease Surveillance Officer
Organisation: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Duty Station: Mbarara, Uganda
Reports to: Director 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 on 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 south western region.
- Monitoring all Notifiable diseases on a weekly basis and provide feedback and technical support to the district teams, health workers and the MOH.
- Provide technical support and build capacity of the program team, district and site teams on the prevention and management of the notifiable diseases as per MOH guidance.
- Provide technical support and build capacity of the CSOs/CBOs and other partners in community surveillance systems.
- Provide technical guidance during the development of annual work plan and participates in the planning and budgeting activities, especially in regard to notifiable diseases.
- Coordinate technical reporting according to 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.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate 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 or related field is an added advantage.
- A minimum of three years’ experience working with similar projects
- 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
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
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