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Principal Technical Officer – Vaccine Preventable Diseases

UNICEF

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Health Care

Public Health

Addis Ababa

8 years

1 Position

2023-01-05

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2023-01-20

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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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