Humanitarian Health Advisor, Ebola Response Consultants(1099) Position

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Position Summary

The Humanitarian Assistance Support Contract (HASC) brings together exceptional institutional support experience, technical leadership, and an unmatched commitment to US missions. HASC supports the U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) humanitarian assistance, disaster response, and foreign assistance across multiple bureaus. Team Credence, through the HASC, delivers operational and administrative support to provide and coordinate humanitarian assistance and maintain 24/7 response capability.

Credence has an immediate need for the Humanitarian Health Advisor, Ebola Response Consultant who will serve as part of the Disaster Humanitarian and Response (DHR) Bureau’s Technical Quality and Assurance (TQA) Office, within the Health Unit. They will be responsible for working on DHR’s response to the current Ebola disease outbreak in West/Central Africa.

The Consultant will also work with other sectors of the office including protection; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); nutrition; natural hazards and shelter and settlements, to provide a multidisciplinary approach to providing life-saving program to disaster affected populations. S/he will support DHR’s approach to emergency health activities within the team and assist in developing response strategies and provide technical support to humanitarian health programming in the Department of State. The Advisor will receive day-to-day guidance from the Senior Health Advisor. S/he will work in close coordination with other Health Advisors.

Scope:

The Consultant will provide technical advisory services to the TQA Office in support of the Department of State’s humanitarian health programming. In addition, the consultant will support DHR’s coordination with the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy and other bureaus at State and the interagency, including HHS/ASPR, OGA, and CDC.

Overall, the Consultant is expected to show strong independent initiative and work with minimal supervision and engage with stakeholders in close collaboration with and under the direction of the Senior Health Advisor and Ebola Response Leads. Day-to-day oversight of the position will be provided by the Senior Health Advisor, with formal supervisory and evaluation functions performed by a Credence contract supervisor.

The main roles and responsibilities of the Consultant will be:

• 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.)

Requirements

• Post Graduate Studies (Master’s degree) plus seven (7) years of experience working in emergency relief and humanitarian assistance, and infectious disease outbreaks. A minimum of three (3) years of relevant experience must be obtained overseas.
• 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.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements:

• This position requires the ability to deploy for international travel assignments for at least one month at a time, as well as occasional domestic travel to Washington, DC.
• When not travelling, this is a fully remote position within the United States and its territories.
• Consultant may be requested for additional domestic or international travel up to 21 days.

Originally posted on Himalayas