Remote Ebola Health Advisor for Disaster Response

Credence Management Solutions, LLC; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Credence Management Solutions, LLC is seeking a Humanitarian Health Advisor, Ebola Response Consultant to join the HASC program within the Disaster Humanitarian and Response Bureau. The role supports DOS humanitarian health programming and coordinates with partners to deliver life-saving health interventions.

Remote within the United States, the consultant will provide technical leadership, develop sector strategies, review NGO/UN proposals, and guide emergency health activities in response to

Qualifications

• Post Graduate Studies (Master's degree) plus seven (7) years of experience working in emergency relief and humanitarian assistance, and infectious disease outbreaks.
• Recent experience working in a technical capacity for an international nongovernmental organization, public international organization, or USG agency working in humanitarian relief and/or response in health and infectious disease outbreaks.
• Fluency in critical concepts of emergency/ humanitarian health interventions in humanitarian contexts and ability to develop and guide programming to reflect those standards.
• Understanding of key health issues related to displaced populations, refugees and other vulnerable populations and ability to represent the humanitarian perspective.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret strategy; to analyze, develop and present work results; and to monitor and evaluate implementation of programs.
• Demonstrated flexibility and openness in responding to changing work priorities and environments.
• Fluency in French and experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo strongly preferred.
• US citizenship with an Active Secret Clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Advise the Response Lead on appropriate strategies on humanitarian response modalities that best enable Ebola outbreak response activities considering lessons learned from past Ebola outbreaks. Identify critical gaps that facilitate the pillars of response and advise the DHR leadership on these strategies.
• Liaise directly with technical lead and pillar leads of the response at post, and in DC.
• Advise the DHR Programs Lead on programming. And advise on when other technical sectors need to provide analysis and technical assistance for the response.
• Engage with the national health cluster and sub-clusters to understand humanitarian gaps, challenges and response plans; attend regular cluster meetings.
• Evaluate and document health programming gaps and assess the performance of current DHR awards in responding to these gaps.
• Coordinate with humanitarian partners to understand humanitarian gaps and challenges in light of the Ebola response and understand the integration of health humanitarian actions and Ebola response actions.
• Attend pillar meetings to understand technical gaps and how they are exacerbated by humanitarian needs or could be better supported through humanitarian enablers.
• Serve as a USG humanitarian health sector resource person, assist in strategy development and provide expert technical and organizational leadership in sectoral activity as part of Ebola Response.
• Advise and support technical and strategic thinking for health activities, interventions, and recommendation discussions. Develop sector strategies, guidance, and recommendations (in coordination with other sectors when required) for disaster and humanitarian response; and provide technical support for DHR staff at Post, and other offices within State.
• Advise and support discussions on emergency health activities with NGO partners and other Department of State staff working in humanitarian health.
• Provide technical review of proposals submitted by NGO and UN partners for humanitarian health programs. Apply new developments in the emergency health sector to humanitarian programming.
• Advise on the coordination, implementation and prioritization of emergency health activities to ensure that efforts in assigned program areas are meeting the needs of affected populations and satisfy the goals and objectives of the response program.
• As needed, provide technical support to State's humanitarian nutrition and WASH Teams related to the complementary nature of these interventions to improve health outcomes in humanitarian settings.
• As needed, serve on DARTs and serve on Washington-based Response Management Teams (RMTs), which provides services and support to DARTs deployed in response to disasters. The duties on RMTs will vary. (DARTs may require immediate (within 24 hours) deployment overseas for an extended period of time.)

Education

Master's degree

Job description

Credence Management Solutions, LLC is seeking a Humanitarian Health Advisor, Ebola Response Consultant to join the HASC program within the Disaster Humanitarian and Response Bureau. The role supports DOS humanitarian health programming and coordinates with partners to deliver life-saving health interventions.

Remote within the United States, the consultant will provide technical leadership, develop sector strategies, review NGO/UN proposals, and guide emergency health activities in response to