Job ID: 2203818
Level: P4
Organization: AF_NGA Nigeria
Contractual Arrangement: Temporary appointment under Staff Rule 420.4
Duration of the contract (Years, Months, Days): one year
Program Objectives
- The objective of the EPI program is to help national authorities reduce morbidity, disability and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases by improving access to and use of immunization services through EPI programs. strengthened districts.
- Accelerate efforts to achieve poliomyelitis eradication, measles control, maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination, yellow fever control; promote innovations, including the introduction of new and underutilized vaccines
- Improve vaccine safety and security and systematize access to immunization services integrated with other child survival interventions.
Description of homework
- Provide technical assistance to national authorities in a priority state to adopt national EPI strategies and program best practices to set out specific conditions
- Support national authorities of a priority state in the preparation, review and/or update of annual state immunization plans
- Support capacity building activities in support of immunization operations (service delivery, vaccine supply and quality, logistics, surveillance, advocacy and communication), immunization safety, and human and institutional resource strengthening
- Support capacity building activities aimed at the introduction of new and underutilized vaccines as well as delivery of immunization activities with other priority disease control/child survival interventions
- Support immunization monitoring and evaluation activities
- Support activities to strengthen partnership and advocacy for improved performance of immunization activities
- Perform other activities as requested by the WHO Representative.
Qualifications required
Education:
- Essential: Graduate or postgraduate degree in public health from a recognized university
- Desirable: Formal training in the principles of epidemiology and/or health promotion.
Live:
- Essential: Seven years of international management experience in the field of immunization. Skills in organizing and delivering training programs for public health workers
- Desirable: Experience in immunization activities in the relevant geographic region.
Skills:
- Willing and able to travel extensively within Nigeria; The candidate must have good communication skills
WHO Competencies:
- Team work
- Respect and promote individual and cultural differences
- Communication
- Build and promote partnerships across the organization and beyond
- Ensure the efficient use of resources
Use of language skills:
- Essential: Thorough knowledge of English.
Remuneration
- WHO salaries for staff in the professional category are calculated in United States dollars.
- Compensation for the above position includes an annual base salary commencing at USD 75,602 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension and health insurance contributions, if applicable), a variable post adjustment, which reflects the cost of living in a particular duty station, and currently amounts to USD 3194 per month for the duty station listed above.
- Other benefits include 30 days of annual leave, allowances for dependent family members, home leave and an education grant for dependent children.
