Accountabilities:

• Carrying out key epidemiological activities in outbreak investigation (description including time, place, people with emphasis on mapping when it is needed) and advising on the operational response.
• Implementing and maintaining a surveillance system to monitor epidemiological trends of relevant outbreak-prone diseases. Guiding activities of medical staff for surveillance and/or active case finding, including ensuring understanding of the need for consistent case definitions and data recording (briefing of all new staff).
• Monitoring and Implementing initial Assessment (for emergency situation), rapid health assessments and (baseline or follow-up) surveys. Where standard protocols are not available or appropriate, developing a protocol seeking extensive feedback and pilot testing of tools to ensure the objectives will be met robustly with support of HQ epidemiologist.
• Preparing and adapting routine documentation (survey forms, training materials, letters of request/notification, locally appropriate consent forms etc.) with support of HQ epidemiologist. Preparing an appropriate sampling frame and sample selection guidelines with support of HQ epidemiologist.
• Planning and supervising the associated HR processes of the staff under his/her responsibility (recruitment, training/induction, evaluation, potential detection, development and communication) and ensuring that staff exhibits required skills after training and pilot test.
• Managing data systems and ensuring accurate, high-quality databases; analyzing results and preparing regular written reports on progress and findings for medical coordinator/HQ and when appropriate to external collaborators/networks (MoH, other NGOs, etc.).
• Providing training sessions to medical teams on relevant aspects of epidemiology to enhance team response capacity.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities:

• Experience in people development recommended as he/she will supervise and coach data encoders and data supervisors.
• Flexibility in moving around the country in the different projects, sometimes with hard living conditions.
• Excellent stress management.
• Will learn: 
• Health Information Management System (HMIS), including creation of dashboards, extrapolation of data, data analysis.
• To analyze data flow at project level, to capture mistakes in the process and to propose solutions and implement them.
• Provide weekly epidemologial report and support medical field team in the analysis of weekly SitRep.
• Support Coordination team an analysing epidemiologial trends: after the war trends had been changing so continous monitoring is essential.
• How to collaborate and communicate closely with Medical Coordination team: excellent communication skills are esssential.

MSF is a civil society initiative that brings together individuals committed to the assistance of other human beings in crisis. As such MSF is by choice an association.
Each individual working with MSF does it out of conviction and is ready to uphold the values and principles of MSF.

Interested candidates are requested to send their CV, application letter, copy of educational and experience certificates to the MSF-Spain Office, House No. 113, Block No 4, Airport Area, Port Sudan.