Overview
The Health Emergency Officer provides technical expertise and guidance in outbreak preparedness and response, and supports the strengthening of national capacities for International Health Regulations (IHR).
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical expertise and guidance in outbreak preparedness and response.
- Establish and maintain close collaboration with various personnel from the Ministry of Health, health care facilities, and state health offices.
- Produce detailed strategies and guidelines for effective interventions in outbreak preparedness and response.
- Support the strengthening of the country’s capacity for core IHR capacities.
- Ensure health needs during humanitarian emergencies are identified.
- Mobilize partners of the Health Cluster to contribute to the establishment and maintenance of an adequate early warning and rapid response system.
- Ensure close collaboration and constant contact with the Ministry of Health and state health offices.
- Monitor WHO’s internal capacities for the implementation of the WHO Emergency Response Framework (ERF).
- Support the Ministry of Health in consolidating cross-border collaboration, capacity building, and information sharing.
- Support the Health Cluster to identify health sector stakeholders and establish contacts between them and existing health coordination mechanisms.
- Secure information from a variety of health sectors, analyzing and recommending actions and guidelines for the development of medium and long-term work plans and strategies.
- Lead and promote effective coordination of surveillance and evaluation activities.
- Perform any other tasks as may be assigned by the Country Representative.
Required Experience
- 5 years of professional experience, particularly in disease surveillance, and outbreak preparedness and response.
- Experience working in Guinea Bissau within the last three years.
- Solid knowledge of the principles and functioning mechanisms of the Health Cluster.
Qualifications
- Essential: Medical degree, in a health-related discipline and/or postgraduate degree in epidemiology and public health, mathematics or statistics, with a specialization in public health and advanced studies in computer science.
- Desirable: Additional training in disaster management, essential statistical software packages, and information management system.
