Responsibilities:
Vaccine planning and implementation
- Contribute to the project team’s efforts to ensure the successful implementation of project activities, including creating work plans, budgeting, and reporting.
- Work closely with the relevant divisions of the MOH (e.g. EPI, Malaria Control Program) and other relevant stakeholders to plan for and implement malaria vaccine introduction and scale-up.
- Facilitate trainings and organize key events and meetings.
- Provide technical support for project activities, monitoring, reporting, evaluation, and documentation in a timely manner.
- Assist with other programmatic and administrative duties as required for successful implementation of MalVac project activities.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
- Participate in the establishment of standards, tools, and processes for the management of the project’s MEL approach
- Refine and/or set up data collection systems and mechanisms to support implementation of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan for malaria vaccine introduction strategies and activities.
- Conduct data quality audits to enhance data quality,and support rapid cycle learning and improvement during the early implementation of the malaria vaccine roll-out.
- Support country team’s internal approach to adaptive learning by facilitating pause and reflect sessions, after-action reviews, and other approaches to help the project adapt based on implementation experience
- Provide technical assistance to sub-national EPI teams and health facilities for quality assurance and improved use of data for decision-making.
- Travel in country as needed for completion of activities.
Required Experience
- Advanced degree in a relevant public health discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in vaccines and immunization with demonstrated skills in vaccine implementation.
- Experience with projects that involve liaising with government institutions, WHO, UNICEF, other stakeholders, and NGOs.
- Mastery of the national health information monitoring system as well as experience in immunization.
- Skills in data quality assurance methods and data analysis and use
- Experience in research methods and translating data and evidence to program and policy change
- Proven ability to multi-task and collaborate work effectively with senior staff, colleagues, donors, partner organizations, stakeholders, local institutions, and others at all levels.
- Excellent analytical, communication, presentation and report writing skills
- Demonstrable problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Proficiency in application of Microsoft Office Suite with an emphasis on proficiency in Word, PowerPoint and SharePoint.
- Competence in data analysis and visualization tools such as: Excel, R, Python, Tableau, Power BI.
- Extremely detail-oriented, with the ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Proficiency in English required.
