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Job Overview:
The Gavi REACH Health Officer will join the team across three zones in the Tigray region—Northwest, Central, and South—focusing on ensuring that Zero Dose Children (ZDC) and overlooked communities in fragile and conflict-affected settings receive high-quality immunization services as part of Primary Health Care (PHC) platforms. They will assist the team in delivering training to community-level and facility-based health providers, aiming to reach ZDC with superior immunization services. They will also take the lead in bolstering surveillance systems, engaging with communities alongside Health Extension Workers (HEWs), health workers, and other local collaborators like Community Health Volunteers (CHVs/HDAs) to heighten community awareness for identifying and reporting vaccine-preventable and priority zoonotic diseases. She / he supervises the planning, execution, and assessment of immunization programs within the organization's areas of operation, focusing on enhancing community-based disease surveillance, increasing immunization coverage, and verifying the quality of immunization data.
Major Responsibilities:
Coordinating in the micro-plan preparation for immunization and SIAs campaign including for routine EPI and with emphasis on inaccessible, border and poorly performing areas. Work to map out missed communities, ZDC and hard to reach populations to develop strategies that will ensure adequate reach of immunization serviceCoordinating effective cold chain logistics, including adequate forecasting, quantification and requisition of vaccination supplies, timely delivery of vaccines and health supplies for campaigns and routine activities, vaccine stock management, and appropriate maintenance and expansion of cold chain.Support team in developing weekly movement plans to project support areas in line with the project activity work plans to ensure regular support supervision and mentorship of field teams, last mile delivery of HMIS, vaccine and other needed supplies to health services delivery points.Develop IPC action plans with the relevant teams and use this for continuous quality improvement.Work with TRHB and key collaborators to design and successfully disseminate risk communication and community mobilization (RCCE) materials on immunization to generate community acceptance and consensus.Support the project teams to detect, identify, report and handle adverse events following immunization (AEFI) in supported project locations.Highlight gaps, using field reports and empirical data on performance and technical coverage in EPI activities that need to be addressed.Represent the IRC and actively engage in weekly regional health cluster meetings, RMNCH, and other technical working groups.Monitoring & Evaluation
Compile and report project progress (weekly, monthly, quarterly, biannual, and annual) to the Senior Officer and Health and Nutrition Manager. Ensure the timely compilation of social mobilization field data, including checklists, within the polio and RI monitoring and evaluation framework.Supervise and assess program activities to settle if monthly and quarterly indicators have been met.Provide technical support to evaluate the effectiveness of program implementation and recommend adjustments in goals, objectives, intervention strategies, and measurable outputs. timelines.Safeguarding Responsibilities: