Job Description
USAID, through GH-TAMS, is seeking candidates to support Mission Health Office’s in setting up, managing and rolling out USAID’s COVID-19 G-VAX at the country level, working closely with CDC, local counterparts and other interagency partners.
Role and Responsibilities
- Establish in-country interagency coordination structure;
- Establish/define in-country systems, process, and structures for scaling up vaccine delivery response in consultation with government counterparts and multilateral counterparts;
- Develop and roll out, with USAID team and in consultation with HQ leadership, in-country monitoring structure;
- Work with USAID team to ensure system for policy and program guidance to implementing partners (IPs), community service organizations (CSOs), and other major stakeholders/partners;
- Establish weekly campaign situation reports (sitreps) to analyze weekly data, bottlenecks, and need for rapid programmatic adjustments to keep vaccination progress on target;
- Work with USAID team to identify and resource IPs for elements of the vaccine delivery response; and
- Engage with USAID HQ as necessary to ensure appropriate incident management, reporting and communications structures.
Qualifications
- Masters and/or Professional degree in public health, epidemiology, medicine or other relevant field
- Previous experience with USG and PEPFAR programming and vaccines delivery; program design; high level policy and strategy engagement with Department of Health and other government officials
About the Organization
The Global Health Technical Assistance and Mission Support Project (GH-TAMS) is a five-year USAID-funded activity providing the Bureau for Global Health (GH) and USAID field missions with high quality technical expertise to achieve the Agency's foreign assistance global health mission. With start-up in the fall of 2019, GH-TAMS follows the success of the Global Health Program Cycle Improvement Project (GH Pro).
GH-TAMS technical assistance covers a broad range of technical areas and cross-cutting issues such as HIV/AIDS. family planning, MNCH, infectious disease, TB, health finance, reproductive health, organizational development, OVC, project design, facilitation, M&E and strategic planning.
Project assignments are located in Washington D.C. and worldwide in Africa, Asia and elsewhere. Assignments typically range from two weeks to six months in duration.
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