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The Role
The Technical Officer for vaccine delivery will support the CoVID-19 vaccine administration and distribution in member states. The technical officer will work with member states and implementing partners to plan activities, track progress, and develop recommendations to address any challenges faced in the vaccine administration.
Major Duties and Responsibilities
The Technical Officer for Vaccine Delivery shall:
- Develop high level plan of activities for vaccine deployment and administration in accordance with regional program teams and implementing partners and ensure coordination at the country level
- Support implementing partners in their day-to-day execution and implementation of vaccine
- Support regional and country teams in identifying all feasible locations for vaccine administration
- Track key performance indicators on vaccine delivery and produce reports as appropriate
- Determine country and site readiness for vaccine administration and delivery with both quantitative and qualitative indices
- Work with Implementing partners to develop initiatives to enhance the country’s vaccine readiness in areas such as vaccine demand stimulation and logistics improvement
- Ensure that all vaccine delivery related challenges and risks are identified and mitigation measures established and implemented
- Represent Africa CDC in a professional manner, which creates a positive image and enhances the credibility of the organization
- Perform any other duties as requested by the Technical Assistance Team Lead
Qualifications and Skills required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Business Administration, Economics, Supply Chain Management and other related The candidate need to have at least 5 years of experience. Supervisory experience is not mandatory but an added advantage.
Or
- Master’s Degree in Public Health, Business Administration, Economics, Supply Chain Management and other related The candidate need to have at least 2 years of experience. Supervisory experience is not mandatory but an added advantage.
- Required skills and Competencies:
- Excellent diplomatic, representational, interpersonal and communication skills, including experience with successfully interacting with stakeholders and decision-makers in technical and other professional settings
- Experience in vaccine distribution
- Demonstrated project planning and management skills for organizing, planning and executing projects from conception through implementation;
- Excellent technical writing skills, in addition to narrative and financial reporting skills;
- Skills in translating highly technical information into presentations, briefings and report and funding proposals for both technical and lay audiences;
- Excellent computer skills, including word-processing capabilities, proficiency with e-mail and internet applications, experience in using office software applications such as MS Excel, Power Point and Word;
- Leadership and management Pro-active and solutions oriented.
- Leadership Pro-active and solutions oriented
- Excellent organizational skills
- Analytical and problem solving abilities
- Ability to build strong relationships internally and with external
- High level of autonomy at work, yet with profound team
- Ability to work under pressure, with minimal supervision, and in a culturally diverse team
- Adaptive, patient, resourceful, resilient and
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The Role
The Technical Officer Pharmacovigilance will support the design of systems and tools to detect, monitor, and respond to adverse events following immunization (AEFI) in the vaccine roll-out programme.
Major Duties and Responsibilities
The Technical Officer Pharmacovigilance shall:
- Ensure that all AEFI related challenges and risks are identified and mitigation measures are established and implemented.
- Support country consultations to assess existing AEFI surveillance systems to identify gaps and develop plan of activities to address challenges.
- Support capacity building of member states and implementing partners on Africa CDC’s AEFI surveillance, investigation, and response.
- Establish a coordination mechanism between regional programme teams to exchange CoVID-19 vaccine safety information including a data sharing mechanism for CoVID- 19 vaccine safety data and reporting of adverse events.
- Represent Africa CDC in a professional manner, which creates a positive image and enhances the credibility of the organization.
- Perform any other duties as requested by the supervisor.
Qualifications and Skills required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmacology, Public Health, or related field and 5 years of relevant experience.
Or
- Master’s Degree in Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmacology, Public Health, or related field and 2 years of relevant experience.
Required skills and Competencies
Functional skills
- Experience in public health programmes including providing technical assistance in strengthening pharmaceutical systems in the continent.
- Experience designing, implementing, and monitoring pharmacovigilance systems.
- Excellent diplomatic, representational, interpersonal and communication skills, including experience with successfully interacting with stakeholders and decision- makers in technical and other professional settings;
- Demonstrated project planning and management skills for organizing, planning and executing projects from conception through implementation;
- Excellent technical writing skills, in addition to narrative and financial reporting skills;
- Excellent computer skills, including word-processing capabilities, proficiency with e- mail and internet applications, experience in using office software applications such as MS Excel, Power Point and Word
Personal Abilities
- Strong problem solving abilities
- Ability to plan ahead and predict potential and emerging barriers
- Ability to build strong relationships internally and with external stakeholders
- High level of autonomy at work, yet with profound team spirit
- Ability to work under pressure, with minimal supervision, and in a culturally diverse team
- Adaptive, patient, resourceful, resilient and flexible
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The Role
The Project Officer will be directly reporting to Senior Project Officer and will be responsible in supporting him/her in providing oversight of implementing partners managing. He/she will also be responsible for managing official correspondence, tracking of financial spending to partners, managing relationships, and monitoring project performance.
Major Duties and Responsibilities
The Project Officer shall:
- Develop the scope and work-plan of the project in conjunction with the implementing partners and Member States.
- Work with implementing partners to refine and define KPIs and other partner performance metrics which will be tracked by the programme.
- Support and follow-up on the implementation of programme activities in accordance with the program proposal and activities timeline,
- Monitor the performance of implementing partners to ensure they are achieving results in line with the KPIs of the programme and develop corrective actions if there is delay.
- Participate in regular meetings with the implementing partner and conduct field oversight together with Technical Assistance Team Members to ensure objectives are being achieved.
- Ensure implementing partners are complying with routine auditing and reporting procedures.
- Advise partners on potential capacity building opportunities and link with the Technical Assistance Team and Regional Program Team for further advice.
- Support the Senior Project Officer in development of monthly project implementation reports, monitor and track progress of the project;
- Represent Africa CDC in a professional manner, which creates a positive image and enhances the credibility of the organization
- Perform any other duties as requested by the Partnership Management Team Lead.
Qualifications and Skills required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology or related fields. Preferred candidates must have at least 5 years of experience. Managerial experience is not required but is an advantage.
Or
- Master’s Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology or related fields. Preferred candidates must have at least 2 years of experience. Managerial experience is not required but is an advantage.
Required skills and Competencies:
- Demonstrated project planning and management skills for organizing, planning and executing projects from conception through implementation;
- Demonstrable experience in drafting budgets and programme reporting documentation for executive level consumption.
- Knowledge and understanding of management and operational policies, procedures and systems supporting critical and routine programme operations in a public health or other public sector context;
- Excellent administrative skills and ability to work with minimum supervision.
- Knowledge and understanding of programme management support systems and processes.
- Excellent computer skills, including word-processing capabilities, proficiency with e- mail and internet applications, experience in using office software applications such as MS Excel, Power Point and Word.
- Analytical and problem solving abilities.
- Ability to build strong relationships internally and with external actors.
- High level of autonomy at work, yet with profound team spirit.
- Ability to work under pressure, with minimal supervision, and in a culturally diverse team.
- Awareness of technological trends and apply necessary technology to the daily work when necessary.
- Adaptive, patient, resourceful, resilient and flexible.
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The Role
The Technical Officer for IPC will support the coordination and facilitation of all IPC activities within the Save Lives and Livelihoods Programme.
Major Duties and Responsibilities
The Technical Officer for IPC shall:
- Support the setting targets, supports planning monitors performance of IPC activities for the Save Lives and Livelihoods Programme.
- Support design of continuous IPC quality improvement.
- Support the development/review/revision of the IPC technical implementation guidelines, SOPs and other documents.
- Provide analytical support on IPC as needed by Africa.
- Support in the development and process management of IPC technical initiatives.
- Take part in the development of IPC core components for preparedness, response and recovery from COVID-19 and other infectious disease outbreaks.
- Conduct COVID-19 vaccine IPC capacity building (in-country trainings) for member States national IPC focal persons and port health IPC personnel.
- Coordinate and facilitate IPC for COVID-19 vaccine virtual trainings in collaboration with IPC Technical Working Group (TWG).
- Identify IPC needs for member states and facilitate provision of relevant IPC supplies based on identified need and request.
- Provide technical support to member states to inform strategic, technical and operational decisions related to IPC best practices and implementation.
- Conduct both operational and implementation research in IPC as it relates to COVID- 19 and other pathogens of interest.
- Support member states to adopt and adapt evidence informed guidelines on IPC for COVID-19 vaccine.
- Prepare weekly, monthly and annual reports on IPC activities.
- Participate in the planning for IPC activities for the Africa CDC Incident Action Plan.
- Represent Africa CDC in a professional manner, which creates a positive image and enhances the credibility of the organization.
- Perform any other duties as requested by the supervisor.
Qualifications and Skills required
- Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Systems Management or a related health field and 5 years of relevant work
Or
- Master’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Systems Management or a related health field and 2 years of relevant work experience.
Required skills and Competencies
Functional skills
- Working experience in supporting the implementation of public health programmes with emphasis on infection prevention and control.
- Demonstrable technical expertise and experience in the development of policies, processes, procedures and tools for infection prevention and control.
- Knowledge and experience in supporting public health emergencies programmes under government ministries and external donors.
- Demonstrable experience and in-depth knowledge of operations of the Africa CDC, Regional Collaborating Centers and National Public Health Institutes is preferred.
- Clear understanding of the health systems on the Continent and fair knowledge of operations of the Ministries of Health in Member States.
- Excellent computer skills, including word-processing capabilities, proficiency with e-mail and internet applications, experience in using office software applications such as MS Excel, Power Point and Word.
Personal Abilities
- Strong problem solving abilities
- Ability to plan ahead and predict potential and emerging barriers
- Ability to build strong relationships internally and with external stakeholders
- High level of autonomy at work, yet with profound team spirit
- Ability to work under pressure, with minimal supervision, and in a culturally diverse team
- Adaptive, patient, resourceful, resilient and flexible
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