Epidemiology Senior Technical Advisor

**Epidemiology Senior Technical Advisor**

We are searching for an experienced Epidemiology Senior Technical Advisor in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

**Project Overview**

***Promoting Results and Outcomes through Policy and Economic Levers (PROPEL) Health is a USAID- funded five-year project awarded to Palladium on September 23, 2022. PROPEL Health aims to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy development and implementation; adequate, predictable, and sustainable health financing; enhanced government stewardship, transparency, and accountability; and use of evidence-based advocacy approaches at global, national, and subnational levels to promote best practices. It focuses on family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), primary healthcare, and global health security (GHS). The project’s transformational technical strategy prioritizes localizing policy, advocacy, financing, and governance (PAFG) leadership, technical assistance, and capacity development to enhance resilience and sustainability. PROPEL Health’s country teams will serve as the technical and implementation driving force for Mission buy-ins and country-based core-funded activities. The project actively supports USAID’s localization strategy by drawing on local actors and partners to co-create country programs and lead implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

PROPEL Health Madagascar will support the Government of Madagascar (GOM) to advance the national Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and One Health approach. PROPEL Health will strengthen the government’s capacity to design and implement health security policies; mobilize and efficiently utilize financing for emergency response and essential services; and better prepare the GOM to prevent emerging infectious disease threats (both human and zoonotic), including cholera, Mpox, and Marburg virus. PROPEL Health will also focus on improving policy, financing, and governance of GHS, disease surveillance, health emergency response, and risk communication.

The project is seeking to recruit an Epidemiology Senior Technical Advisor for PROPEL Health Madagascar. This is a local hire and moving expenses or expatriate allowances are not associated with the position. This position is based in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

**Scope of Work**:
***The Epidemiology Senior Technical Advisor will provide technical assistance for PROPEL Health Madagascar, including data analysis, data use, and development of guidelines, technical documents, training and mentoring for Global Health Security under the One Health approach. Key components will include health surveillance for One Health, workforce capacity development and coordination with key intersectoral stakeholders in the country. This position is based in Antananarivo, Madagascar, with occasional in-country travel. The Epidemiology Senior Technical Advisor will report to the Madagascar Country Director.

**Primary Duties and Responsibilities**:
Health surveillance for Global Health Security under One Health Approach:

- Leads technical assistance for health surveillance under One Health for emerging infectious diseases, including zoonosis. Reviews and develops protocols and reference and response guidelines in coordination with other technical advisors or specialists working in country and at Palladium headquarters.
- Provides technical assistance to key stakeholders in health surveillance capacity strengthening activities including workshops, training and mentoring. This will be done in coordination with the capacity building technical advisor.
- Provides guidance for the development of health surveillance simulation exercise as per the SimX guidelines.
- Provide technical assistance to facilitate the analysis and use of epidemiological data based on best practice approaches, working in close coordination with the Data Analysis Technical Advisor to facilitate technical assistance in data use activities.
- In coordination with other team members to lead assessments, desk reviews, surveys and any other data collection and analysis activity relevant to the project implementation.
- Support capacity strenghtening activities in collaboration with other team members.
- Together with other team members to promote intersectoral coordination through regular meetings with key strategic stakeholders in the three concerned ministries and institutes (Health, Agriculture, Environment, etc.), along with lab partners, field epidemiologists, capacity strengthening partners, and foster potential program collaborations.
- Lead the analysis, develop technical products (e.g. briefs, presentations, etc.), and use epidemiological surveillance data to develop evidence-based recommendations which can inform government policy and decision making.

Monitoring and Evaluation/Collaborative Learning:

- Reporting data related to technical activities within his/her area of expertise.
- Development