Epicentre Epidemiologist Jobs in South Sudan
Skills to Perform Your Main Activities:
Technical skills: with distance-support from Epicentre referent(s), you will collaborate with medical teams to identify key data, ensure its quality, and use it to inform operational decisions – for both routine medical activities & outbreak/other emergency response. You will guide (but do not replace) medical teams to create & maintain quality reporting; you will develop tools as necessary (minimize duplication) and conduct trainings as needed to support medical teams to use & interpret data, provide group and individual training to medical teams on key aspects of data management and interpretation to enhance team analysis and response capacity, provide training to field team and coordination on surveillance and outbreak investigation.
You will provide support to coordination for 2024/5 malaria EPREP strategy (Aweil) and Old Fangak flood response strategy, and for 2024/5 country EPREP strategy. For surveillance you will attend National Emergency Response Meetings, MoH surveillance meetings, provide regular reports to coordination & technical referent on diseases of outbreak potential (including measles, meningitis, cholera, HepE) and coordinate with epidemiologist from other MSF sections and with WHO and MoH liaisons, as needed.
You will participate in outbreak investigations and initial response; advise coordination on response strategy, support sample collection, transportation and follow-up with National Laboratory, ensure proficient implementation of key linelists and quality data collection by staff, namely:
Malaria: Ensure Aweil linelist is implemented correctly for 2024/5 season; train (and retrain) teams, ensure data quality,
Measles, Meningitis, Hep E etc: as needed, analyze linelist (Aweil and Old Fangak) and create basic graphics to report to team & referent, as needed
You will provide regular sitreps/reports on key diseases of outbreak potential, namely:
Malaria during high season (Aweil)
Measles and/or meningitis (or other) during active outbreaks
Other key diseases as needed
You will provide support to routine activities, including for example:
Analyze 2024 malaria season & response, with MedCo and MedRef(s)
Support 2024 Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) implementation (Aweil, June – Oct): data collection, data quality monitoring, interpretation and analysis; round reporting and suport final SMC report, supervision and in-depth support may be required.
Carry out 2024 SMC coverage survey (Aweil, Oct – Nov): survey preparation, staff training, staff supervision in the field, data quality monitoring, interpretation and analysis; final report.
Support Old Fangak flood response activities in collaboration with PMR and MedCo as needed
Team Management Skills:
You will be requested to coordinate activities with different collaborators and partners, and to integrate into a multidisciplinary, multinational and highly motivated team.
In close coordination with the HR department and following the MSF vision, policies and values, you may be involved in the processes of refining job descriptions, participating to recruitment of local staff specifically involved in the SMC implementation, ensuring their thorough understanding of the survey protocol and methods, data management, confidentiality, and human subjects research protection standards and practices. To do so, you will lead trainings and coaching, and contribute to performance evaluations for the team members.
International context: you are willing and able to travel internationally. You have an excellent level of English (oral, written). French is a plus.
Qualifications
You have a master’s degree or similar high-level certification in Epidemiology (or equivalent experience, including public health training and experience).
You have an excellent knowledge of epidemiology related analytical software (mainly Excel, STATA, R),cideally with experience in using ODK or Kobo data collection platforms and DIHS2 health information management system.
Experience in field epidemiology, including surveillance and surveys is required, and experience with humanitarian or development NGOs (MSF/Epicentre is a plus) would be an asset.
You are appreciated for your excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
You have proven ability to work in a dynamic and rigorous environment, with skills in teamwork and cooperation, flexibility, stress management, and to have “Results and Quality” orientation, with capacity to operationalize findings.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Epicentre Epidemiologist Jobs in South Sudan
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