Médecins sans Frontières is a private international medical emergency organisation. It provides assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflicts, and does so irrespective of race, religion, creed or political convictions.
Vacancy No: 003/2025
Section/Unit:
Health
Grade Level:
8 (Gross salary 1503 USD per month
Supervisor:
Medical Coordinator
No. of Post:
1
Duty Station:
Port Sudan
Duration:
6 Months
Closing Date:
10 Feb 2025
Background:
Assessing, implementing and maintaining the epidemiological surveillance systems/monitoring (if needed) according to MSF protocols, standards and procedures in order to contribute to appropriate evidence-based decision making using well managed health data in outbreak and emergency MSF programmes.
Duties and responsibilities:
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), 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; analysing 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.
Other duties according to the job description.
Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:
1.Education
Medical doctor (preferable), nurse or biomedical background with a degree in epidemiology (not in public health).
2.Experience
At least tew year of tropical medicine experience (having assumed coordination position is plus).
