US Embassy Dakar hiring Public Health Specialist.
Salary: 31,324,979 CFA/year
Closing date: 17 September 2024
Duties
- The Public Health Specialist (Surveillance) is the rising illnesses survey and ailment surveillance portfolio manager.
- Job holder is the Epidemiologist liable for imparting technical know-how and help to the Ministry of Health (MOH) and different collaborating companions withinside the design, implementation and strengthening of habitual ailment surveillance structures and the behavior of large, complicated surveys designed to degree reportable infectious illnesses and different signs of significance to comparing the effect of ailment manipulate programs.
- Carrying out those capabilities calls for public fitness technical knowledge, results-orientated facts analysis, advocacy, and the
- capacity to facilitate conversation and preserve collaborative operating relationships with associate organizations.
- Job holder reviews without delay to the CDC Country Director or different CDC authentic in rate of GHS and performs an lively
- management position in Technical Working Groups (TWG) and/or the Multi-sectored Technical Group.
Job requirements
- Master`s (Master of Public Health (MPH), Master of Science Public Health (MSHP) Degree or host united states of america equal in public fitness, medicine, public fitness policy, epidemiology, demography, or behavioral technological know-how is needed.
- Five years of mid- to senior-degree public fitness revel in withinside the control and improvement of epidemiological surveillance and/or large-scale surveys of ailment prevention, treatment, or care packages are required. One extra 12 months of revel in on the managerial degree is needed.
- Job holder is needed to have precise understanding of studies techniques and the collection, evaluation and presentation of public fitness/epidemiologic information so that you can plan, design, direct the implementation of and enhance methods for collection, evaluation and dissemination of rising ailment epidemiological information.
- This consists of understanding of the principles, theories and practices of USG and across the world diagnosed requirements for surveillance and survey rules and methods.
- Detailed understanding of the host authorities fitness care gadget and systems along with familiarity with Ministry of Health policies, application priorities and rules is needed.
- Good operating understanding of group control strategies to plan, prepare and direct multi-disciplinary task groups and sports is needed.
- Good operating understanding of typical administrative necessities in improvement and guide of grants, contracts, memoranda of expertise and cooperative agreements is needed.
- Level III (desirable operating understanding, speaking, writing) in English is needed. Level IV (fluency-speaking/reading/writing) in French is needed. (This can be tested)
Skills and abilities
- Strong analytical capabilities to with no trouble apprehend and talk new surveillance application design, control, and implementation processes are required.
- This consists of the improvement of assessment designs, use of dependable and legitimate instruments, and techniques for statistics collection, evaluation and reports.
- Excellent oral and written communications capabilities are required to increase and preserve effective, sustainable operating relationships with country wide and global operating companions and to put together considerable and analytical reporting.
- Strong control capabilities are required to perform independently with constrained direct supervision of everyday sports and to guide results-pushed venture groups and workgroups.
- Excellent general laptop capabilities (keyboarding with each velocity and accuracy) and superior talent tiers in use of at the least one of the greater not unusualplace epidemiologic statistics evaluation software program (EPINFO, STATA, SAS, or SPSS) is required.
- Excellent numerical capabilities for manipulating and reporting statistical statistics is required.
- Experience withinside the putting of laptop software program improvement requirements, specs and suggestions in addition to revel in operating inside already set requirements to put in force IT answers is required.
- The incumbent might be anticipated to workout tact in making use of organization suggestions to particular and distinct public fitness surveillance sports, as surveillance applications and surveys are rather complicated and may be threatening to stakeholders.
- Ability to influence others, ingenuity and innovation might be required to steer collaborative agencies engaged in disorder prevention, remedy and care applications to undertake suitable techniques for enhancing the surveillance and survey process.
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