Overview
Provide specialized technical expertise to sustain the quality, continuity, and performance of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) and the Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) in Helmand Province.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide advanced technical support to strengthen evidence-based planning, implementation, monitoring, and quality improvement of routine immunization and supplementary immunization activities (SIAs).
- Analyze immunization and surveillance data using DHIS2, EPI dashboards, Excel, and other programme monitoring tools.
- Identify immunity gaps, monitor programme performance, prioritize high-risk populations, and support timely corrective actions.
- Strengthen integrated immunization services by providing technical guidance on microplanning, supportive supervision, vaccine and cold chain management, surveillance, outbreak preparedness and response, and strategies to identify and reach zero-dose and under-immunized children.
- Support effective coordination among the Provincial EPI Management Team (PEMT), BPHS and non-BPHS implementing partners, provincial and district health authorities, and other stakeholders.
- Improve programme quality, strengthen accountability, enhance community engagement and demand generation for immunization, and build the technical capacity of frontline health workers through mentoring and on-the-job support.
Required Experience
Two years of relevant professional work experience. Experience in immunization, public health, primary health care, disease surveillance, or child health programmes, including field-level implementation and monitoring. Experience in immunization data analysis, interpretation, coverage monitoring, microplanning, supportive supervision, and capacity building of health workers is required. Training and experience in public health, or Immunization or child survival and health care.
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in one of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: Medicine, Health, Public Health, Family Health, Child Development, Nursing, or a field relevant to international development assistance in Immunization and Child Survival & Health Care
