Central Surveillance Coordinator

Number of positions: One

Duty Station: Addis Ababa (ICAP SI Project Office)

Job Summary:

Under the supervision of the HIV Case Surveillance Team Leader, the Central Surveillance Coordinator will take a lead role in the design, development, and coordination of the implementation, and maintenance of information systems that strengthen COVID-19 surveillance and other notifiable conditions. He/she will also be in charge of coordinating COVID-19 surveillance across all regions.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Coordinate tasks related to COVID-19 surveillance and other notifiable conditions in all regions
• Participation in the national COVID-19 surveillance and other notifiable conditions technical meeting and discussion
• Actively participate in the selection, development, testing, and implementation of the regional and national electronic surveillance data capturing, visualization, and reporting platform
• Engage in the design and development of data analytic platform for the COVID 19 surveillance and other notifiable conditions
• Track completeness and quality of COVID 19 surveillance data over in all regions
• Ensure COVID surveillance reports produced at the national and regional level to support decision-making for COVID surveillance, outbreak, and response activities
• Engage in design and develop COVID-19 surveillance data visualization dashboard in collaboration with Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI)
• Continually document and disseminate program successes, case studies, and lessons learned.
• Produce periodic reports and report on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
• Conducts follow-up activities required for program monitoring.
• Supervise the regional team and give feedback regularly.
• Perform any other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Job Requirements

• MD or Master’s Degree in Public Health or Health Informatics
• At least ten (10) years of progressive professional experience in Health program preferably on HV/AIDS and public health surveillance program data Management
• Must be able to work under minimal supervision and possess good interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Have the ability to build and maintain productive working relationships.
• Knowledge of statistical analysis tools /software including Microsoft Excel, Access, EPI info, Stata, R, and SPSS, and data visualization tools (i.e., Google Data Studio, Excel, Tableau, and Power BI)
• Proficient in preparing data collection tools, data entry, cleaning, analysis, and interpretation of epidemiological data
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in the English language 

How to Apply

Only online applications are received

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NB: Please note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Closing date for receiving applications is – April 6, 2021