Overview
Provide robust and efficient support for emergency health activities and interventions across the emergency response continuum. This role will lead epidemiology and public health analysis for the Emergency Health Team and coordinate global initiatives in the emergency health sphere.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide epidemiologic context to emergency health crises by surveilling classified public health emergencies including outbreaks and communicating epidemiologic concerns across teams.
- Support standardization of emergency health M&E systems/practices, epidemiological data sourcing and monitoring, systematization of data sharing, and centralized data analysis and knowledge management.
- Coordinate and maintain Health emergency response resources including but not limited to STEP, emergency rapid needs assessment tools, technical tools and libraries/dashboards with ERT support.
- Complete a biannual report of Health in Emergencies Learnings from both primary and available secondary data.
- Support health analysis across emergencies, including trend analyses across health programs in delivery, and as requested for regional and country programs engaged with emergency response and preparedness activities.
- Ensure program quality, accountability and consistency in emergency and outbreak response programming led by IRC’s local and national partners by providing remote and occasionally in person technical assistance, training and socializing systems and tools.
- Review partner technical tools, reports, and data; recommend adaptations or process improvements as required.
- Support adaptation of IRC direct implementation emergency tools and systems for partner use in line with identified needs and requests.
- Support deployed Emergency Health Coordinators to effectively backstop and provide technical guidance to partners.
- Ensure that partnership considerations are incorporated in program design and proposal development and that health partners are proactively engaged in program development efforts.
- Contribute to building a strong understanding of Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (PEERS) throughout the Emergency Health team.
- As required, deploy to support emergency health programming or outbreak response start-up in complex or large-scale emergencies (20% of time and maximum 6 weeks for single deployment).
- Advise and train IRC and/or IRC partners on emergency health tools and resources for emergency preparedness, early action and response, as needed.
- Lead development, review and submission of strategic proposals and concept notes around IRC’s innovative programming related to health in emergencies, aligned with the Emergencies SAP, Emergency Health technical framework and other identified strategic priorities.
- Provide support to emergency health response and preparedness awards, inclusive of awards focused on subawards to partners (maximum 1 per year).
Required Experience
At least 5 years of experience in health-related program development and implementation in humanitarian, post-conflict, or low-resource settings including at least 2 years in humanitarian settings). Experience in epidemiology, monitoring, evaluation, and learning management, technical tools development and data analysis is required.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in clinical or public health; Master of Public Health, or equivalent, with background in Epidemiology.
