Recruitment Notice: NATIONAL CONSULTANT, MONITORING AND EVALUATION SUPPORT

SUPPORT FOR MONITORING AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SURVEILLANCE OF VACCINATION PREVENTABLE DISEASES – (2210350)

Grade: No grade
Contractual Arrangement: External consultant
Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days): 1 Month
Job Posting: Nov 14, 2022, 2:59:58 PM
Closing Date: Nov 29, 2022, 11:59:00 PM
Primary Location: Cameroon-Yaounde
Organization: AF_CMR Cameroon
Schedule: Full-time

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TOR FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A NATIONAL CONSULTANT IN SUPPORT OF THE MONITORING AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THE SURVEILLANCE OF DISEASES PREVENTABLE BY VACCINATION

Background and justification
The Global Poliomyelitis Eradication Initiative has been confronted since 2016 with an upsurge in epidemics of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) affecting countries free of WPV including Cameroon since 2019. In 2022, cases of WPV 1 were detected in 2022 in Malawi and Mozambique, indicating a reimportation of wild poliovirus into the African region. This urgent crisis is exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Surveillance capabilities must evolve and be maintained indefinitely to support the 2030 Agenda for Immunization’s commitment to broader integration of VPD surveillance, maintaining International Health Regulations reporting obligations ( RSI) and track community transmission in the highly unlikely but high-impact event of a laboratory-level containment failure.

Following the adoption of the new Polio Eradication Strategy 2022-2026, the Global Polio Surveillance Action Plan (GPSAP) 2022-2024 was developed in alignment and countries were invited by the WHO AFRO to develop their national surveillance strengthening plans. As a prelude to the development of the 2023 plan, careful and disaggregated analyzes of the performance of the VPD surveillance program in 2022 are needed.

Objectives
The consultant must bring his expertise to the vaccination program in the monitoring of surveillance and the mapping of the performance of the surveillance program for diseases preventable by vaccination, as a prelude to the development of the plan to strengthen the surveillance of the vaccine. year 2022.

The national consultant will:
Placed under the general supervision of the WHO Representative in Cameroon and the technical supervision of the National Advisor in charge of monitoring, the consultant recruited to this position will be responsible for:

Carrying out analyzes of the implementation of activities and surveillance performance in 2022;
Develop a Power BI tool for monitoring program recommendations;
Carry out the mapping of health personnel briefed/trained in surveillance;
Set up a platform for exchanging and sharing surveillance information.
Methodology
Appropriate VPD surveillance databases;
Propose a plan for analyzing the evolution of monitoring performance during the analysis;
Perform database analyses;
Develop information products resulting from the analyzes carried out;
Share a final report at the end of the contract.
Profile of the expert
Have a university degree in epidemiology, computer science, cartography or database management
Have a good knowledge of the expanded immunization programme;
Have at least one year of experience in database management;
Master the use of at least one database management software;

Master the use of mapping software;
Have a good knowledge of Power BI software;
Master the computer tool and the use of operating software: Word, Excel, Access, Power point;
Previous national and international experience in managing surveillance databases is an asset.
Application file
Interested candidates are requested to send their application file in a sealed envelope including a curriculum vitae accompanied by technical and financial offers as well as a copy of the identity with the Administration of the WHO Office.

Terms of the contract:
Type of contract: Consultant

Duration: 01 month

Funding: WHO

Apply ONLY online via the web link whose address is: https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2210350