BACKGROUND :
Ministry of Health-Ethiopia (MOH-E) has been implementing the Ethiopian Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (EFELTP) since 2009. The establishment of EFELTP has strengthen national disease surveillance systems through coordinating and streamlining of all surveillance activities and ensuring timely provision of surveillance data to all disease prevention and control programs. Learning by doing is a key component of the program. The residents provide needed services to the Ministry of Health while mastering competency in disease surveillance, system evaluation, outbreak response, and other applied epidemiology competencies. EFELTP promotes a three-tiered model of trainings: Frontline, Intermediate, and Advanced. All three tiers implement a mentored training-and-service model to address the principles and practices of public health surveillance, outbreak investigation and response, communication, and use of data for evidence-based decision-making. Currently, the Advanced and the Frontline trainings are underway in Ethiopia. Therefore, MOH-E would like to invite competent applicants for the Data Manager position for Advanced EFELTP.
Roles and responsibilities
Team/Program: EFELTP
Location: MoH, Addis Ababa
Reports to: HR Development Directorate
Staff directly reporting to the post: none
Duration of Position: The contract will be for one year but extendable depending on the satisfactory performance and the need as of business continuity.
Type: National
Person Specification
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