Health and Surveillance Officer- Moroto

Required Qualifications and Professional Experience

• Degree, diploma public health, Medicine, Nursing, public health nutrition, Public Health, Environmental Health or another relevant health-related field.
  
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in primary healthcare, community health, immunisation, disease surveillance or humanitarian health programming.
  
• Experience supporting health-facility or community outreach activities and working with VHTs/CHWs and local government structures.
  
• Experience in routine health data collection, reporting, referral and follow-up is an advantage.
  
• Knowledge of Ministry of Health service-delivery systems, EPI and IDSR approaches is desirable.
  

IX. Required Skills & Competencies

• Good coordination, communication and community engagement skills.
  
• Knowledge of immunisation, maternal and child health, primary healthcare and disease surveillance.
  
• Ability to collect, review and report routine programme and health-service data accurately.
  
• Good facilitation, problem-solving and interpersonal skills.
  
• Ability to work independently and travel frequently in remote settings.
  
• Proficiency in basic MS Office applications and digital data-collection tools is desirable.
  
• Knowledge of local languages used in the assigned district is an added advantage.
  

X. Safeguarding and Accountability

• Uphold Action Against Hunger safeguarding, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), anti-fraud, data protection and Code of Conduct policies.
  
• Promote safe, dignified, inclusive and accountable services; ensure informed consent, confidentiality and the do-no-harm principle.
  
• Report safeguarding concerns, fraud risks, misconduct, complaints and protection concerns through established organisational channels.