Overview
Provide technical assistance for polio outbreak activities in high-risk areas of Angola, intensifying AFP surveillance and supplementary polio vaccination campaigns to improve planning, implementation, supervision, and monitoring.
Key Responsibilities
- Support accelerated activities to boost Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) Surveillance, including training, orientation, implementation of facility-based active surveillance, clinical and community sensitizations, case investigation and follow-up.
- Collaborate in micro-planning and implementation of mopping-up immunization activities.
- Participate in activities to improve the quality of supplementary immunization activities, including identification and immunization of 'zero dose' children and ensuring high coverage.
- Conduct supervisory visits to immunization team members and use online SIA supervisory and monitoring tools.
- Prepare reports and conduct exit debriefings.
Required Experience
- Essential: 10 years of relevant experience in surveillance of notifiable diseases and/or immunization service delivery at district, provincial or national level.
- Experience in the response of an outbreak of polio or other vaccine preventable diseases such as measles, yellow fever and other health emergencies would be an asset.
- Field experience in public health case based surveillance and immunization response activities at sub-national level would be an asset.
- Desirable: Experience with an asset in WHO or another UN agency.
Qualifications
- Essential: Completion of secondary school education with a training in health sciences/public health such as Doctors, Nurses, medical laboratories, environmental sanitation or in a discipline related to emergency and disaster management from a recognized institution.
- Desirable: Training in surveillance and immunization would be an asset.
