The U.S. Mission in Abuja, Nigeria, is seeking to employ eligible and qualified candidates for the position below:

Job Title: Senior Program Specialist (Surveillance)
Announcement Number: Abuja-2018- 059
Location: Abuja
Series/Grade: 0550/ FSN-11 /FS-04
Duties
• The incumbent under the supervision of the Lead, Epidemiology and Surveillance Team coordinates and manages assigned survey and disease surveillance activities in country.
• These include the design of routine disease surveillance system with the Ministry of Health (MOH), and the conduct of large, complex surveys designed to measure HIV prevalence and other indicator of importance to evaluating the impact of HIV control programs.
• S/he provides technical or managerial oversight include the MOH, national universities, and International NGOs and private sector partners.
• The incumbent will participate in the PEPFAR Strategic Information (SI) Technical Working Group (TWG) to ensure that surveillance systems are meeting the needs of the national HIV/AIDS Program in Nigeria and that PEPFAR Nigeria program priorities are developed.
• Additionally, s/he works in cooperation with GoN staff at all levels of government to apply case-reporting procedures, sentinel surveillance, and populationbased surveillance methodologies to ensure that PEPFAR’s program’s objectives are met.
• S/he plays an active leadership role in the Mission’s PEPFAR Technical Working Groups (TWG) and/or the Multisector Technical Groups.

Job Title: Senior Program Specialist – Health Management Information
Announcement Number: Abuja-2018-060
Location: Abuja
Series/Grade: 0550/ FSN-11 /FS-04
Duties
• Both the advisory and managerial roles requires HMIS technical expertise, results-oriented analysis, clear communication, advocacy, and close collaboration with implementing partners and donors
• Due to high integrated nature of HMIS in all PEPFAR programmatic decision making, the job holder represents the agency on HMIS issues at technical working group, policy and strategic planning meetings, including meetings with collaborators and donor agencies. In addition, s/he manages and supports CDC implementing partners.
• Under the supervision of the Branch Chief/Medical Epidemiologist, the Senior Program Specialist is a team lead position and responsible for Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) strengthening within the context of in-country HIV/AIDS programs supported through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
• The incumbent provides technical oversight of the Country Operational Plan and Reporting System (COPRS) operations in country and works at a program management level to collaborate with the Ministry of Health and other HIV/AIDS partners in the development and strengthening of data, information systems and software that will improve data flow from the sub-national to the national level of the host country
• S/he provides the USG team, Ministry of Health, National AIDS Control Agency and other implementing partner’s technical recommendations and expertise in the design, development, improvement, and maintenance of information systems that strengthen health service effectiveness and efficiency

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