Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Overview
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
The One Health Specialist shall be required to perform a wide range of generic tasks specific to the OHRECA Project management. Detailed specific OHRECA Component tasks shall be elaborated in the Job Description. Generic tasks and responsibilities shall include:
• Provide overall OHRECA project team leadership and prudent project management functions to ensure effective delivery on the project goals and objectives.
• Develop and execute, in collaboration with respective country teams and contracted service providers comprehensive project work plans in line with approved project budgets,
• Coordinate and supervise the implementation of planned project activities in collaboration with the country project teams, contracted consultants and other project stakeholders,
• In collaboration with the country teams and contracted service providers, prepare quality and timely project technical reports for submission to the donor, including preparation of briefing notes, success stories, posters and articles and blogs on One Health,
• Provide expert guidance on One Health related approaches and implementation modalities in line with VSF Germany One Health strategies and OHRECA project objectives,
• Promote multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral and inter-disciplinary collaboration and coordination in the delivery of the OHRECA project through Multi-stakeholder platforms and other coordination mechanisms existing in the countries
• Support baseline surveys, studies, assessments on various OHRECA project components and establish data bases for the project beneficiaries,
• Perform epidemiological analysis, risk assessment and forecast of health threats requiring One Health interventions;
• Prepare, organize, participate in and provide technical support, as facilitator, trainer and/or evaluator, at the national and multi-country events such as technical meetings, workshops and simulation exercises in liaison with the key stakeholders at the involved countries,
• Contribute to strengthening national and regional capacities to efficiently operationalizing One Health through training needs assessments, curriculum development training purposes,
• Perform other related duties as required,

Essential Requirements
• Bachelors Degree in veterinary medicine with advanced post graduate qualification in Epidemiology, Public Health (with bias on Veterinary Public Health, AMR) and or any other discipline relevant to the management of One Health Programmes,
• One Health experience working in the national and private veterinary services or international organizations implementing One Health programmes is preferable.
• At least 7 years’ experience in working on OH related matters with multi-disciplinary teams from animal, human and environmental sectors.
• Strong capability to liaise with multiple stakeholders in integrated One Health projects
• Strong familiarity with statistics, bio-statistics and or other relevant quantitative methods for conducting disease risk assessemnt and reporting.
• Excellent communication and writing skills
• Team player, self-motivated, ability to work under minimum supervision
• Ability to prioritize, problem-solve and meet agreed deadlines
• Understanding of capacity development and adult-learning principles,
• Experience in mobile learning and creation of online learning and sharing platforms,
• Ability to multi task under tight deadlines,
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Application Packages relevant to the needs of the project.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Interested and qualified? Go to Veterinaires Sans Frontieres on docs.google.com to apply

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