Community Health and Surveillance Officer

Required Experience & Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Public Health, Environmental Health, Nursing, Community Health, Clinical Medicine, or related field.
  
• Minimum of 2–3 years of experience implementing community health, public health, epidemic preparedness, or humanitarian health programs, preferably in refugee or emergency settings.
  
• Experience working with community health systems including VHTs, CHEWs, community volunteers, or refugee community structures.
  
• Knowledge of integrated disease surveillance and response (IDSR), RCCE, outbreak preparedness, and infection prevention and control approaches.
  
• Experience supporting health promotion, referrals, surveillance, and community mobilization activities.
  

Community Health and Epidemic Preparedness Implementation

• Support implementation of integrated community health and epidemic preparedness and response (EPR) activities across refugee and host communities in line with project work plans and technical guidance.
  
• Coordinate community-based disease surveillance, alert reporting, risk communication, screening, and referral activities in collaboration with health facilities, VHTs, CHEWs, Rapid Response Teams (RRTs), and district health authorities.
  
• Support timely identification, verification, documentation, and reporting of suspected epidemic-prone diseases and public health events in line with MoH and district surveillance protocols.
  
• Facilitate implementation of community-level outbreak prevention and response interventions, including household sensitization, RCCE campaigns, screening support, and referral follow-up.
  

Community Systems Strengthening

• Strengthen and coordinate community health structures including VHTs, CHEWs, refugee community volunteers, youth groups, and community networks to improve community engagement and service delivery.
  
• Build capacity of community structures through training, mentorship, supportive supervision, and routine performance monitoring on surveillance, referrals, RCCE, safeguarding, and protection mainstreaming.
  
• Support establishment and strengthening of sustainable community-to-facility referral pathways for health, protection, SRHR, GBV, child protection, mental health, and other lifesaving services.
  

Integrated Health and Protection Programming

• Collaborate closely with Protection, GBV, Child Protection, and SRHR teams to ensure safe identification and referral of vulnerable individuals requiring specialized services.
  
• Support dissemination of integrated health, protection, environmental health, and epidemic preparedness messaging through community structures and digital/community communication platforms.
  
• Promote safe, accountable, and protection-sensitive programming approaches during community activities and service delivery.
  

Monitoring, Reporting, and Data Management

• Support collection, verification, analysis, and timely reporting of community health and surveillance data using approved MoH and IRC tools and platforms.
  
• Maintain accurate records of community activities, referrals, alerts, trainings, supervision visits, and outbreak response interventions.
  
• Participate in routine data quality improvement processes and ensure confidentiality and safe management of sensitive information.
  

Coordination and Representation

• Participate in district and settlement-level coordination meetings, technical working groups, and health sector engagements as delegated.
  
• Maintain close collaboration with District Health Teams (DHTs), Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), MoH structures, partner agencies, refugee leadership, and community stakeholders.
  
• Support integrated coordination between community and facility-based health services to improve continuity of care and timely referrals.
  

Environmental Health and Safeguarding

• Promote environmentally responsible community health practices and support implementation of environmental mitigation measures during community activities.
  
• Ensure safeguarding, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), confidentiality, and ethical standards are upheld in all interactions with clients and communities.
  
• Identify and escalate safeguarding, protection, or safety concerns in accordance with IRC policies and reporting procedures.