Senior Technical Officer, Global Health Security (GHS) - Lagos State

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Master’s Degree or its International Equivalent in Civil Society, Communication and Social Marketing, Economic Development, Education, the Environment, Gender, Health, Nutrition, Research, Technology and Youth or a Related Field.
  
• Typically requires 6+ years of relevant experience managing data collection and technical assistance experience.
  
• Demonstrated experience in emerging and re-emerging infectious disease surveillance activities.
  
• Extensive public health field experience in designing, implementing, monitoring, and reporting on capacity building in more than one component (policy and advocacy, interpersonal communication and community mobilization, mass communication, strategic collection and use of data).
  
• Familiarity with GHS indicators and activities, especially data collection, analysis, strategic data use, and report-outs.
  
• Familiarity with international donor organizations, Nigerian public sector health systems, and non-governmental organizations.
  

• Participate in development of and monitors work plans and budgets; ensures appropriate levels of technical assistance in program operations; coordinates partner efforts in program implementation; ensures appropriate program monitoring and accurate financial and programmatic reporting to the Country Office.
  
• Collaborate with the Director of Public Health (SMoH/HMB/SPHCDA); the State Epidemiologist, State DSNO and Incident Managers to strengthen state public health emergency management and outbreak response activities including surveillance systems through contact tracing and active case search, EOC coordination meeting, sample collection and referrals among others.
  
• Support timely collection, analysis, and dissemination of data on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, ensuring data quality and timeliness using IDSR guideline and SORMAS.
  
• Provide technical assistance to state-level stakeholders to improve disease detection, notification, confirmation and reporting mechanisms using 7-1-7 framework.
  
• Facilitate coordination between FHI 360, NCDC, state agencies, and other partners to enhance data sharing and alignment of PHEM activities.
  
• Develop and deliver capacity-building initiatives, including training for state and local surveillance officers on emerging and re-emerging infectious disease protocols.
  
• Assist in the development and adaptation of tools, templates, and materials for surveillance and data management including Sportrep, Siltrep, and weekly epidemic reports.
  
• Monitor the implementation of emerging and re-emerging surveillance activities and provide regular progress reports to the Associate Director, Technical.
  
• Support outbreak investigations and response activities as required, including field deployments.
  
• Participate in all Multi-disease EOC meetings in the state, identify key challenges and gaps and support the Incident management system to address them
  
• Promote adherence to infection prevention and control (IPC) measures during surveillance and contact tracing activities.
  
• Provide overall supervision for EpiC state office staff and ensure compliance with technical, programmatic, contractual, and financial requirements set by FHI360 and its donors.