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Senior Program Officer, Surveillance

2 months ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Disability Solutions Full time

About Disability Solutions

We are a global nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities. Our mission is to provide opportunities for people with disabilities to live healthy, productive lives, regardless of their identity or circumstances.

The Team

Our Global Health Division is a diverse range of program areas aimed at finding creative solutions to ensure that products and services reach people with disabilities in low-income countries who need them most. We focus on areas with the potential for high-impact, sustainable solutions that can reach millions of people.

Job Title: Senior Program Officer, Surveillance

We are seeking an experienced professional to serve as a Senior Program Officer, Surveillance. The Senior Program Officer will collaborate with external partners, mainly the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund, and will also work internally with other foundation teams to coordinate collaborative surveillance efforts across vertical disease teams.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Steer the foundation's support around Collaborative Disease Surveillance efforts across WHO, including collaboration with the WHO Berlin Hub.
  • Lead foundation's engagement with the Global Fund on disease surveillance, including the support for collaborative surveillance and investments.
  • Support WHO, Global Fund and other Global Health Initiatives (GHI) efforts to provide normative guidance on collaborative surveillance, staffing required, and technical assistance needed.
  • Provide advice to and collaborate with the foundation's Africa Team and program strategy teams on opportunities with GHI to support disease surveillance.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with institutional partners and governments, ensuring clear and consistent communication and representing the foundation as required.
  • Provide input into work on cross-foundation activities important to our disease surveillance programming in Africa, including the development of implementation plans to ensure impact.
  • Work with internal foundation teams to advance the foundation's priorities on collaborative disease surveillance.
  • Design, execute, monitor, and assess complex, performance-based contracts/grants with consultants and grantees.
  • Maintain high-quality interactions and oversight of grantees and consultants, providing course correction.
  • Contribute to writing background documents, briefs, articles, and presentations, including relevant literature reviews, landscape analyses, and data analysis.

Requirements:

  • Advanced degree in public health, global health, epidemiology, or similar fields (e.g. MSPH, MPH, MD, PhD), with demonstrated experience in disease surveillance and global health.
  • Significant experience working closely with partners to achieve health goals, including bilateral and multilateral donors and agencies (especially WHO and Global Fund); governments in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC); implementing agencies; non-governmental organizations; think tanks; academic institutions.
  • Professional experience managing or implementing complex disease surveillance programs and strategies, and/or providing technical cooperation to national surveillance programs in emerging economies (preferably in Africa), including supporting bilateral and multilateral fund flows to LMIC governments.
  • Experience navigating complex relationships between multiple governmental, non-governmental and private sector partners, with tact and diplomacy.
  • Excellent written and oral communications skills and experience communicating with broad and diverse audiences. Ability to communicate in French and/or Portuguese will be an advantage.
  • Demonstrated experience working in cross-team programs and proven track record to adapt to a fast-paced environment and the networking and coalition-building demands of a highly matrixed organization. Ability to influence without authority.
  • Ability to see ahead to future possibilities, understand political economy, and develop strategies, concrete theories of change and actions taking these things into consideration.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with flexibility, efficiency, and diplomacy in a complex, fast-paced environment.

Other Attributes:

  • Comfortable in a wide range of cultural, geographic and operational situations, demonstrating culturally sensitive behavior with a diverse range of people and a deep commitment to development issues and high standards of personal integrity.
  • Ability to travel up to 30% domestically and internationally.