Required Qualification, Experience and Competencies:

• • Bachelor’s degree in medicine, Public Health, or related field;
    
  • Master's in Epidemiology, Public Health, or related field.
    
  • Training in field Epidemiology is an added advantage.
    
  • At least 3-5 years of experience in regional/district programming, public health programming, surveillance, outbreak response/management, epidemiology, etc..
    
  • Experience in project cycle management
    
  • Experience in setting up surveillance systems, mortality surveillance, verbal autopsy, or death certification processes.
    
• 5 Years Relevant Experience
  

1. Data Management and Analysis Through the Regional Emergency Operations Centre (REOC)

· Collect, validate, and clean surveillance data from community and health facility sources.

· Submit timely reports and dashboards to the REOC and national task forces.

· Participate in REOC coordination meetings and contribute to response strategies

· Ensure integration of mortality data into national surveillance systems (DHIS2, EWARN, etc.).

· Support data triangulation with case surveillance and burial team reports.

2. Regional and District Coordination & Capacity Strengthening

· Work with REOC to support the regional coordination mechanism

· Conduct Bi-weekly epidemic intelligence meetings

· Liaise with district surveillance officers, laboratory teams, burial teams, IPC focal persons, and other stakeholders for coordinated response.

· Contribute to documentation of lessons learned and best practices for future outbreak responses.

3. Community Mortality Surveillance

· Support training and supervision of community health workers (CHWs) on death notification and verbal autopsy processes.

· Coordinate community-based reporting of deaths and suspected SVD-related fatalities.

· Facilitate community engagement and awareness activities to improve death reporting.

4. Health Facility Mortality: Mortality Surveillance Using Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)

· Provide technical guidance to health facility staff on accurate medical certification of cause of death (MCCoD).

· Support implementation of CQI approaches to enhance surveillance data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.

5. Acute febrile illness surveillance:

· Work with REOC to monitor AFI performance in the region

· Conduct supportive supervision/targeted mentorships to poorly performing sites.

· Support in AFI data analysis and sharing

6. Alert management

· Support districts and VHTs in detection, triaging, and verification of public health signals from routine and event-based surveillance data, community-based reports, and inter-sectoral sources in accordance with national event-based surveillance protocols.

· Apply epidemiological thresholds and statistical signal detection methods to differentiate true public health events from background noise, and escalate validated alerts to appropriate authorities within stipulated timeframes.