Technical Officer (Hlth Sys. Strengthening for Immunization)

The Technical Officer will support countries to improve routine immunization coverage and vaccine preventable disease control through policy development, training, surveillance, and resource mobilization. The role involves technical assistance, monitoring, and collaboration with partners to strengthen immunization systems and health services.

Responsibilities

• Support countries with actions for routine immunization coverage improvements, including analysis of causes of low coverage and development, implementation, and monitoring of operational plans.
• Develop guidelines and facilitate training activities related to immunization and vaccine preventable disease control.
• Provide technical assistance to countries for immunization policy development and costed multi-year plans.
• Review opportunities for integrating immunization services with health systems and provide technical support including monitoring Gavi supported activities.
• Support surveillance of adverse events following immunization (AEFI).
• Support surveillance of vaccine preventable diseases and use disease surveillance data to improve immunization strategies.
• Support demand generation for vaccination at regional and country levels including collaboration with partner organizations.
• Support issues related to availability and supply of quality vaccines and logistics.
• Mobilize and leverage technical, financial, and human resources to support capacity strengthening, policy integration, and innovative programming.
• Deliver comprehensive, timely, client and solution-oriented technical and administrative support across all budget centers.
• Perform any other related work assigned by supervisors.
• Submit an end of assignment report.

Requirements

• Degree in medicine or health sciences.
• Post-graduate/Master's degree in public health, child health or related disciplines is desirable.
• At least five years of relevant experience in immunization and vaccine preventable disease control programmes.
• Demonstrated exposure at international level.
• Experience in public health, health systems, vaccine preventable disease surveillance or communicable disease epidemiology is desirable.
• Thorough knowledge of public health and immunization and vaccine preventable diseases control.
• Knowledge and experience of monitoring, evaluation, and data analysis.
• Ability to plan and execute training at national and international levels.
• Ability to write concise reports and use computers and other modern office technologies effectively and appropriately.
• Negotiation skills to deal with national authorities and other agencies.
• Expert knowledge of English.

Skills

• Immunization Programmes
• Vaccine Preventable Disease Control
• Public Health
• Public Health Systems Strengthening
• Communicable Disease Epidemiology
• Disease Surveillance
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Data Analysis
• Training Delivery
• Report Writing
• Computer Literacy
• Negotiation Skills
• Policy Development
• Resource Mobilization

Languages

English