Overview
The EPI Officer will revitalize community volunteers and village health leaders on outreach immunization, sensitize community and clan leaders, and provide logistic support to strengthen outreach immunization.
Tasks Summary
- Revitalize Community volunteers (CVs) and village health leaders (VHLs) on outreach immunization.
- Sensitize community leaders and clan leaders.
- Provide logistic support to strengthen outreach immunization.
- Support introduction new vaccines (Hep-birth dose, malarial, MCV-5 dose switches).
- Facilitate Outreach and Mobile vaccination sessions.
- Facilitate house-to-house headcount of eligible, ZD, and Under-UV children using Community Volunteers (CVs) and HEWs for hard-to-reach kebeles.
- Print and provide the necessary formats for all required formats.
- Support Immunization performance review and QA at Woreda.
- Conduct spot checks during fixed and outreach vaccination sessions.
- Participate in the local outbreak response, One Health Task Force coordination, and after-action review (AAR) meeting.
- Conduct spot checks during polio/Measle campaigns to ensure service quality, verify cold chain management and documentation—particularly Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) identify gaps, and provide on-the-spot mentoring to improve immunization delivery.
- Mobilizing CVs/VHLs for enhance community awareness, promotes risk communication, increases vaccine uptake, addresses misinformation, and ensures timely mobilization of caregivers especially in hard-to-reach or high-risk areas.
- Support disease investigation activities through logistics and finance at woreda.
- Support for AFP and measles sample collection and transportation with financial and logistics.
- Represent, IRC in woreda based review meeting, workshop and taskforce meeting, and share the action points to the health and nutrition manager.
- Prepper immunization, MCH and community-based surveillance data, and submit through DHIS2 in monthly based, for Health and nutrition manager on time review.
- Analyze monthly and quarterly report submitted by woreda health officers for data quality and presentation of data for use.
- Responsibility for any assignments assigned by the immediate supervisor.
- Ensuring all activities are implemented according to the work plan and targets are met.
- Facilitate performance review meeting with woreda stakeholders and take corrective action for any deviations.
- Monthly update the indicator trucking table and compare with the target.
- Responsible for revision and updating of activity, spending, and procurement plans for the active grant.
- Work with the health and nutrition manager for monitoring and evaluation of the program activities and make sure that monthly & quarter indicators met or not as per the plan.
- Assist the health and nutrition manager to check the efficiency of the program and recommend changes in goals, objectives, interventions strategies, measurable outputs, and timelines.
- Collaborate with the MEAL field office team, collect feedback from clients and closely work on response provision mechanisms.
- Attend encouraging supervision, quarter monitoring visits, and annual monitoring visits conducted in the camps and share the findings with the health and nutrition manager.
- Actively participate in the internal and external evaluation of emergency response interventions.
- Taking all required mandatory training.
- Develop key performance objectives.
- Conduct midterm evaluation with health and nutrition manager.
- Submit monthly time sheet.
Experience Requirements
- Minimum experience of 2 years for BSc degree or 1 years for MPH/MSC Degree holders.
- Minimum two years’ experience in INGO.
- Two years’ experience in directly leading/supervising immunization and surveillance projects.
- Has Knowledge of national health system.
- Basic managerial and supervisory skills in the NGO context.
- Experience in project management and the ability to plan, coordinate, and supervise the implementation of different projects.
- Experience in coordinating and facilitating workshops, meetings, and training.
- Shown experience in staff management, budget management, and creating effective teams.
- Excellent coordination and representation skills with different partners.
- Excellent technical and report writing skills and MS offices (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, and words).
- Ability to work under pressure and travel frequently to project sites.
- Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of Assosa context and working in the region is an advantage.
Qualification Requirements
• BSC/MPH public, health officer, nursing with direct experience in immunization, surveillance and MCH.
