Malaria Surveillance & Epidemiology Officer

About the role

The PMI Dhibiti (Control) Malaria project, a five-year cooperative agreement, aims to reduce the burden of malaria and move toward elimination, focusing on case management, quality improvement for malaria in pregnancy, surveillance, entomology monitoring and drug efficacy monitoring, targeting pregnant women and children under five in mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar. The Surveillance and Epidemiology Officer reports to the Chief of Party and helps strengthen and expand malaria surveillance systems while building capacity for evidence-based decision-making.

Key responsibilities

• Provide strategic input on improving routine malaria surveillance and help build rapid case detection and response capabilities with government institutes.
• Contribute to all malaria surveillance and response reports and coordinate across projects and with government and local partners so systems fit different epidemiological settings.
• Lead capacity building at the National Malaria Control Program, Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Program, districts and communities so data can be reported, analysed, visualised and used for decisions.
• Work with entomology and vector control partners to include entomology monitoring in surveillance and manage disease and entomological surveillance data.
• Support a culture of learning and data use with governance and local partners, submit surveillance deliverables on time, and present results in reports and meetings.
• Supervise direct reports and maintain close working relationships with surveillance staff at NMCP and ZAMEP.

Required profile

• Master's degree in public health, demography, epidemiology, biostatistics or a related discipline.
• At least five years of progressive experience managing malaria or other infectious disease programmes.
• Demonstrated experience designing epidemiology studies, writing protocols and managing study implementation.
• Ability to collaborate with others and to lead a team when needed.
• Swahili oral and written communication skills evaluated favourably; malaria programme experience in the country highly desirable.

Required skills

• Excellent knowledge of data collection protocols for quality data.
• Advanced knowledge of analytics software such as Excel, Stata, R and SAS.
• Knowledge of GIS and database management is desired.

Applications must include a cover letter and a CV with contact details and three referees, one from the last employer, and are accepted until 30 December 2024.