BACKGROUND of IRC: The International Rescue Committee, one of the world’s largest humanitarian international NGOs, provides relief, rehabilitation and development support to vulnerable people and communities over 40 countries. We began work in Ethiopia in 2000 in response to severe drought in Ethiopia’s Somali region and are currently providing assistance to Ethiopians and refugees in ten regions in Ethiopia, implementing emergency and development programs in health, water and sanitation, economic recovery and development (ERD), women’s protection and empowerment, education, child protection, and multi-sectoral emergency response.
Program Background:
The health sector in Ethiopia currently implements activities in three distinct settings: A refugee health program that is involved in delivery of community based reproductive health services as well as HIV/AIDS prevention activities; and a child survival community-based treatment program and community surveillance for measles, tetanus, and polio and also Emergence Response Mechanism (ERM). The IRC also secured funding from GAVI to reach zero doses’ children and underserved communities.
Job Purpose:
The GAVI senior project Officer will be part of the team in the Tigray region in three Zones (Northwest, Central and South) and works toward ensuring Zero dose Children (ZDC) and missed communities in targeted fragile and conflict settings are served by quality immunization services integrated in Primary Health Care (PHC) platforms. They will support the team in conducting trainings for community level and facility-based health providers to ensure that ZDC are reached with high quality immunization services. They will lead strengthening of surveillance systems by engaging with the communities by working with the HEWs, Human health workers, animal health workers and other community level collaborators such as Community Health Volunteers (CHVs/HDAs) to improve the awareness of the community to identify and report vaccine preventable diseases and priority zoonotic diseases.
Scope/Job purpose:
Under the direct supervision of the GAVI project Manager at the Shire field office, the Senior Health Officer is the responsible and focal person for the overall implementation of health projects in planning, crafting, implementing, monitoring and supervision. Also, the position holder is responsible to own the health team, facilitate and lead technical assessments for the preparation of new project proposals.
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