L’Ambassade des États Unis recrute 01 Spécialiste en santé publique
US Embassy Dakar hiring Public Health Specialist.
- Salary: 29,560,871 CFA/year
- Closing date: 5 Jan 2022
Duties
The Public Health Specialist (Surveillance) is the emerging diseases survey and disease surveillance portfolio manager. Job holder is the Epidemiologist responsible for providing technical expertise and assistance to the Ministry of Health (MOH) and other participating partners in the design, implementation and strengthening of routine disease surveillance systems and the conduct of large, complex surveys designed to measure reportable infectious diseases and other indicators of importance to evaluating the impact of disease control programs. Carrying out these functions requires public health technical knowledge, results-oriented data analysis, advocacy, and the ability to facilitate communication and maintain collaborative working relationships with partner organizations. Job holder reports directly to the CDC Global Health Security (GHS) Deputy Director or other official in charge of GHS and plays an active leadership role in Technical Working Groups (TWG) and/or the Multi-sectored Technical Group.
Job requirements
- Five years of mid- to senior-level public health experience in the management and development of epidemiological surveillance and/or large scale surveys of disease prevention, treatment, or care programs are required. One additional year of experience at the managerial level is required.
- Education: Masters (Master of Public Health (MPH), Master of Science Public Health (MSHP) Degree or host country equivalent in public health, medicine, public health policy, epidemiology, demography, or behavioral science is required.
- Level III (good working knowledge, speaking, writing) in English is required. Level IV (fluency-speaking/reading/writing) in French is required. (This may be tested)
Skills and abilities
- Strong analytical skills to readily understand and discuss new surveillance program design, management, and implementation approaches are required. This includes the development of evaluation designs, use of reliable and valid instruments, and methods for data collection, analysis and reports.
- Excellent oral and written communications skills are required to develop and maintain effective, sustainable working relationships with national and international working partners and to prepare substantive and analytical reporting.
- Strong management skills are required to operate independently with limited direct supervision of day-to-day activities and to lead results-driven project teams and workgroups.
- Excellent overall computer skills (keyboarding with both speed and accuracy) and advanced skill levels in use of at least one of the more common epidemiologic data analysis software (EPINFO, STATA, SAS, or SPSS) is required.
- Excellent numerical skills for manipulating and reporting statistical data is required.
- Experience in the setting of computer software development standards, specifications and guidelines as well as experience working within already set standards to implement IT solutions is required.
- The incumbent will be expected to exercise tact in applying agency guidelines to unique and different public health surveillance activities, as surveillance programs and surveys are highly complex and can be threatening to stakeholders.
- Ability to persuade others, ingenuity and innovation will be required to influence collaborative organizations engaged in disease prevention, treatment and care programs to adopt appropriate strategies for improving the surveillance and survey process.
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