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Principal Technical Officer – Vaccine Preventable Diseases
UNICEF
Health Care
Public Health
Addis Ababa
8 years
1 Position
2023-01-05
to
2023-01-20
Public Health
Full Time
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Job Description
International Consultant Principal Technical Officer – Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: Company’s Scale
Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Duties:
support on prevention and acceleration of vaccination programs.
Provide timely and effective support to Member States;
Provide technical assistance to priority countries in coordination, planning, monitoring and safely
Conduct effective reactive and preventive vaccination campaigns.
Ensure integrated activities that improve immunization performance.
Monitors VPD outbreaks (measles/rubella, YF, meningitis) and provide remote and in-country support to countries on the preparedness and response interventions
Develop and disseminate guiding documents related to VPD for outbreaks to improve long-term immunization programme performance
Develop and recommend frameworks for multisectoral regional immunization programs.
Assist in efforts to build the immunization response capacity of MS and regional economic communities;
Support African Union Member States to develop ICG requests for Cholera, Meningitis and Yellow Fever outbreaks for reactive vaccination campaigns as per the ICG guidance where needed.
Support MS countries to identify and assess integration opportunities of accelerated disease control initiatives into the broader immunization programme and primary health care system;
Participate in Africa CDC coordination initiatives and technical meetings/discussions on vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) at regional and global levels where required.
Perform any other duties as may be assigned by Supervisor.
Job Requirement:
Qualification:
Education:
Master’s degree in Public Health or a related field from an accredited academic institution .
Experience:
at least 8 years of relevant professional experience in a public health program management support role with demonstrated involvement in the successful development and management of immunization and public health emergency preparedness and response programs.
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Fields Of Study
Public Health
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