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Technical Officer (Universal Immunization)

( 2500031 )

Grade : P4

Contractual Arrangement : Fixed-term appointment

Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days) : 12 months (topic to availability of funds, passable efficiency and persevering with want for the place)

Job Posting: Jan 12, 2025, 12:48:42 PM

WHO’s world imaginative and prescient for immunization and vaccines is to help all nations to ship high quality immunization companies as part of an built-in, people-centered platform of illness prevention that spans the human life-course. Within this, the goals are to attain the management, elimination or eradication of vaccine-preventable illnesses as said within the Immunization Agenda 2030, thus contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals. The supply of immunization companies ought to occur in live performance with different interventions and actions throughout the nationwide well being system.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

• Management and Strategic path

nationwide immunization insurance policies and work plan

• Promotes institution of decision-making our bodies at nationwide and subnational ranges to facilitate consensus amongst nationwide gamers and their exterior counterparts.
• Supports the event and implementation of methods and actions throughout the cMYP/NIS and annual EPI plan for strengthening service supply and surveillance of vaccine preventable illnesses.
• Project/Programme administration
• Supports the Coordinator, Integrated Immunization and VPD Surveillance in general venture coordination and useful resource administration in all areas of the immunization programme, screens programme indicators and analyses programmatic and surveillance knowledge for use in programme administration.
• Works carefully with the Federal and State governments to help their implementation and analysis of immunization tasks and to make sure a complete strategy to well being interventions.
• Technical Capacity Developing evidence-based coverage suggestions and steering:
• Conducts analytical research and implementation analysis as wanted and collaboratively develops tips and recommends options to programme considerations.
• Encourages the nationwide immunization programme to incorporate regional and world immunization insurance policies and methods within the Country Cooperation Strategy, by nationally related proof and discussions with the National Regulatory Authority (NRA) and the National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG)
• Solicits suggestions from nationwide technical specialists on world and regional insurance policies to strengthen suggestions made at world and regional degree and guarantee feasibility of implementation at nationwide degree.
• Monitoring and utilizing knowledge for analytics:
• Monitors and evaluates nationwide immunization insurance policies and programmes, supporting the nationwide immunization programme to gather, collate, analyze and use prime quality knowledge for motion.
• Supports the nation to research alternatives for inside and exterior info sharing and strengthen the capability of nationwide authorities to construct and maintain nationwide well being observatories making certain immunization knowledge is built-in inside.
• Facilitates innovation by selling new concepts and applied sciences (together with ICT) to make knowledge assortment, evaluation and use simpler and environment friendly.
• Support to strengthening routine immunization system:
• Provides technical help to enhance routine immunization protection and strengthen routine immunization methods, by designing applicable common routine vaccination companies although mounted, outreach and cellular websites, and together with interval intensification of routine immunization, child well being days and built-in child well being intervention.
• Supports the administration abilities growth of the nationwide immunization programme crew by capability constructing and coaching.
• Assists with the event of strategic complete multi-year plans (cMYPs)/NIS, in addition to annual operational workplans, and helps the on-going monitoring of those plans.
• Supports the nationwide authorities to develop Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) functions to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (Gavi).
• Develops and implements a technique and plan of motion to strengthen the monitoring and analysis system of the immunization programme and to enhance the immunization programme in any respect ranges.
• Support to establishing and strengthening surveillance of vaccine preventable illnesses:
• Implements, screens and evaluates regional networks for laboratory-based surveillance of illness preventable by new vaccines, together with, bacterial meningitis, different invasive bacterial illnesses (bacterial pneumonia and Sepsis) and rotavirus gastroenteritis surveillance.
• Reviews and offers technical help to strengthen vaccine preventable illnesses surveillance knowledge and indicators.
• Supports accelerated immunization initiative actions and the introduction of latest vaccines:
• Reviews, updates and offers technical help and steering on the implementation of accelerated immunization initiative (AII) actions throughout the annual EPI plan in addition to establishes and implements a system to observe AII indicators.
• Supports the nationwide authorities to develop new vaccine functions to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (Gavi).
• Develops new vaccine introduction actions inside cMYPs and annual EPI plans and needed tips to make sure easy introduction at nationwide and subnational ranges.
• Specific duties and deliverables:
• Established fundamental EPI system at state, area and district degree to have uniform knowledge stream
• Improve the completeness and timeliness of routine immunization knowledge from facility to nationwide level-Improve the present DHIS to accommodate as many indicators as attainable from routine EPI
• Support the states to develop facility degree micro plan for routine immunization service supply
• Produce month-to-month and quarterly program report ejr5shA CgqvmP
• Support the VDP Control room in relation to supplementary and routine immunization actions
• Improve the vaccine preventable illness surveillance system
• Improvement of Measles case-based surveillance system as one of many necessities for Measles elimination
• Establish Rubella surveillance system for the preparation of Rubella vaccine introduction
• Develop surveillance instruments and operational tips for VPDs focused for NUVs
• Work carefully with the nationwide laboratory for samples ship from area workplace for their well timed course of Support different actions
• Depending on the nation scenario help different humanitarian actions in collaboration with different program items within the responsibility station.
• Perform different actions requested by the supervisor

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: University diploma in Medicine or Public Health or associated area, and grasp’s diploma in public well being or Epidemiology or different associated area from an internationally acknowledged college.

Desirable: Post graduate coaching in public well being or epidemiology

Experience

Essential:

• At least 7 years of related work expertise on the nationwide & International ranges in immunization programmes, vaccine preventable illnesses surveillance and knowledge administration, together with demonstrated expertise in low-resource environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in working with growth companions on the event, planning, implementation or monitoring and analysis of immunization methods and programmes.
• Proven expertise to work to deadlines and budgets, in collaboration with a various vary of stakeholders. Proven working expertise in nations in battle scenario.

Desirable: Extensive coaching/expertise in immunization, surveillance and knowledge interpretation. Experience in useful resource mobilization and coverage growth

Skills

• Demonstrated in-depth data of ideas, practices, methodology and strategies of immunization programmes
• Excellent capability in analyzing vaccine-preventable illnesses and EPI associated knowledge, synthesizing info and presenting clear and concise conclusions to foster decision-making.
• Excellent understanding of measles and rubella management and elimination technique and introduction of latest vaccines.4. Familiarity with the UN system, together with data of WHO nation, regional and world features. Ability to work as a crew member, and sensitivity to working in a multi-cultural surroundings

WHO Competencies

Enhanced WHO Global Competency Model: who-enhanced-competence.pdf

Teamwork

Respecting and selling particular person and cultural variations

Communication

Producing outcomes

Building and selling partnerships throughout the group and past

Creating an empowering and motivating surroundings

Use of Language Skills

Essential: Expert data of English.

Desirable: REMUNERATION

WHO salaries for workers within the Professional class are calculated in US {dollars}. The remuneration for the above place contains an annual base wage beginning at USD 77,326 (topic to necessary deductions for pension contributions and medical insurance, as relevant), a variable put up adjustment, which displays the price of residing in a selected responsibility station and at the moment quantities to USD 3757 monthly for the responsibility station indicated above. Other advantages embrace 30 days of annual depart, allowances for dependent members of the family, home depart, and an schooling grant for dependent youngsters.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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