Routine Immunization Lead at The Center for International Health, Education and Biosecurity (CIHEB)

Roles and Responsibilities

• Identify missed opportunities for vaccination in routine vaccination in identified counties to inform the design of strategies to address these
• Coordinate the situational assessment of routine vaccination status in identified counties, including the conduct of focus group discussions and in-depth interviews to determine facilitators and barriers to access to routine vaccination
• Participate in implementing five key strategies for optimizing catch-up vaccination as outlined in the technical narrative.
• Support in designing and implementing the M&E plan for catch-up vaccination for routine immunization.
• Liaise with NVIP to update policies, guidelines and documents regarding catch-up and routine vaccination based on successful strategies
• Participate in the target setting for catch-up vaccination in the counties assigned and oversee achieving set targets.
• Ensure optimal coordination of routine immunization at the county, sub-county, and facility level for increased vaccination coverage amongst the target population.
• Provide facility mentorship to increase routine and catch-up immunization coverage by embracing a health systems approach to enhancing vaccine uptake.
• In liaison with the county vaccines coordinator, ensure optimal vaccine commodity management by ensuring all antigen vaccines are collected at the regional stores and distributed to the sub-counties and health facilities on time.

Qualifications

• Education:Bachelor’s Degree in health-related field
• Master’s Degree in Public Health or related field
• Experience:Minimum seven (7) years of direct experience providing technical assistance on routine immunization at Kenya’s national or sub-national level.
• Experience in qualitative research
• Travel: Ability and willingness to travel.

Competencies

• Experience collaborating with the national and county governments, international agencies and/or NGO public health programs.
• Proven ability to assess routine immunization needs and to develop and implement successful program interventions
• Excellent interpersonal and supervisory skills with demonstrated ability to build and manage professional relationships effectively with technical experts, other partners and donor agencies.
• Experience working with USG rules and regulations is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze, assess, and organize information and effectively communicate to a diverse audience..
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple tasks concurrently, and meet deadlines with attention to detail and quality.
• Excellent written and oral communication and computer skills (including with various electronic platforms); technical writing experience (guidelines, publications)