District Vaccine Officer (2)

JOB VACANCY

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REF/DISTRICT VACCINE OFFICER /05/24

Amref Health Africa was founded in 1957 and has since grown to become the largest African-based international health development organization, currently implementing more than 120 programs, directly reaching more than 12 million people across 35 African countries. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref Health Africa has offices in ten countries in Africa and an additional eleven advocacy and fundraising offices in Europe and North America. In the spirit of Ubuntu, partnership and networking are key elements of our approach. Amef has a staff complement of over 1,500.

Amref Health Africa is driven by its vision of ‘Lasting health change in Africa’ and its mission ‘To increase sustainable health access to communities in Africa through solutions in human resources for health, health service delivery, and investments in health’.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

A key member of Amref Malawi Projects’ Technical Team (PTT). An overseer of day-to-day management and implementation of COVID-19 activities at district level, preparing monthly and quarterly work plans and budgets, preparing district level project reports, coordinating the involvement of actors and projects stakeholders, and coordination of overall COVID-19 activities at district level.

Specific Key Responsibilities:

• Supervises and line manage vaccinators in the provision of COVID-19 health services to communities. Providing supportive supervision and technical support to all project participants and beneficiaries on COVID-19 activities.
• Provide guidance and technical assistance to the vaccinators, and partner staff in relevant
• Health Care Facilities (HCFs) and institutions.
• Establish and manage key networks and partnerships with relevant partners including NGOs, CBOs and MOH or relevant Government Departments at district level to promote COVID-19 Health service provision.
• Disseminates project information by preparing and disseminating project reports on a regular basis, including financial and technical reports to the Project Officer and all required project information to Amref internal users.

• Organize and facilitate stakeholder participatory planning and monitoring and evaluation (review meetings) in district level COVID-19 activities.
• Ensure high quality delivery of services to district and community structure
• Maintains regular communication with members of the COVID-19 management teams and other members of the field district office.
• Represent Amref in District affairs, and support the COVID-19 advocacy agenda through initiating and maintaining collaborations and partnerships with other actors on the ground.
• Conducting audits on COVID-19 work and records, thus ensuring monitoring and evaluation of all COVID-19 activities at district level.
• Responsible for developing COVID-19 district work-plans and implementation schedules
• Compile monthly, quarterly and annual reports and submit to the Project Officer.
• Monitor and control the project budget at district level, carry out monthly expenditure analysis and manages asset inventory.
• Ensures COVID-19 activity growth by participating in field office meetings and developing new initiatives and interventions
• Responsible for promotion of sustainable, continuous quality improvement models on COVID-19 health service provision.
• Develops project proposals and actively participate in fundraising activities for the organization.
• Systematically document and produce knowledge products in the form of abstracts, conference papers, case studies and best practices from the COVID-19 work.
• Support implementation of operations research in the project and produce reports.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelors’ Degree in Nursing and Midwifery, Degree in Public Health, Health Management or relevant health field.
• Experience in project management, implementation, budget management, and reporting.

Competences& Skills:

• Experience in implementation of Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health, COVID-19, HIV and other similar health projects
• Superior analytical, presentation, communication and reporting skills.
• Sound IT knowledge; word processing, spreadsheet, databases, presentations
• A good command of English and local languages.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested? Please visit our website https://amref.org/vacancies/ to make your application. You will be directed to our online portal where you will need to create an account in order for you to be able to submit your application. Your application should include a cover letter detailing why you are the best fit for this position and your CV with relevant skills and experience. The closing date will be May 12th 2024. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Duly note that Amref Health Africa does not require applicants to pay any money at whatever stage of the recruitment and selection process and has not retained any agent in connection with recruitment. Although Amref may use different job boards from time to time to further spread its reach for applicants, all open vacancies are published on our website under the Vacancies page and on our official social media pages. Kindly note that official emails from Amref Health Africa will arrive from an@amref.org address.

Amref Health Africa is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Amref Health Africa is an equal opportunity employer and has a non-smoking environment policy.