How will you fight for an AIDS-free generation?
The Disease Surveillance Officer will provide leadership and oversight for all notifiable diseases in the region. He/she will be responsible for monitoring and providing technical guidance on the management of Notifiable disease in the region. The region experiences outbreaks of notifiable diseases like Malaria, Measles, Ebola, Rift Valley Fever among others.

No two days are alike at EGPAF, but what can you expect in this role?
Design strategies that will ensure a robust surveillance system both at the health facilities and the communities within the southwestern region.
• Monitoring all Notifiable diseases on a weekly basis and providing feedback and technical support to the district teams, health workers, and the MOH.
• Provide technical support and build the capacity of the program team, district, and site teams on the prevention and management of the notifiable diseases as per MOH guidance.
• Support district Task forces and rapid response teams on active surveillance, case findings, contact tracing, monitoring, and other outbreak response measures during disease outbreaks
Support the dissemination of policies, guidelines, and SOP for surveillance and epidemic response.
• Provide technical support, and build the capacity of the CSOs/CBOs and other partners in community surveillance systems.
• Support the development of early warning systems (including event-based and indicator-based surveillance) for epidemic and pandemic-prone diseases for early detection and response to public health incidents; conduct a field investigation.
Provide technical support for vulnerability assessment, risk mapping, and development of preparedness/contingency plan at the district level
• Provide technical guidance during the development of the annual work plan and participates in the planning and budgeting activities, especially in regard to notifiable diseases.
• Coordinate technical reporting according to the defined reporting schedule and write regular monitoring and technical reports as required by EGPAF and the donor.
• Assist in identifying, documenting, disseminating, and scaling up best practices on notifiable diseases.
• Any other job-related duties reasonably assigned

To be successful, you will have:
• A bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery, laboratory, Public Health or any other related field.
• A master’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology or a related field is an added advantage.
A minimum of 3 years’ experience working as a Disease Surveillance Officer
• Experience in working in partnership with or within the MoH in notifiable disease or heath security
• Knowledge of decentralized health system.
• Self-driven and motivated employee
Bonus points if you have:
• Good report writing skills
• Monitoring and evaluation of projects.
• Basic knowledge of research data collection methods
• Experience working with an international non-profit/non-governmental organization (NGO)
• Emotionally intelligent individual, with ability to resolve conflicts professionally