Technical Officer – Community Health Systems (AfCDC) – African Union Vacancy Announcement; February 14, 2025
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Organization: African Union
Position: Technical Officer – Community Health Systems (AfCDC)
Employment: Full-Time
Location: Addis Ababa
Date of Announcement:
Deadline: 3 March, 2025
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Job description
Req Id: 2602
Job Title: Technical Officer – Community Health Systems (AfCDC)
Job Grade: P2
Employee Class:
Number of Openings: 1
Posting Date:
End Date: March 03, 2025
AU Organ: Africa CDC
Job Title: Technical Officer – Community Health Systems (AfCDC)
Posting Start Date: 1/31/25
Job Description
AU Values
- Respect for Diversity and Teamwork
- Think Africa Above All
- Transparency and Accountability
- Integrity and Impartiality
- Efficiency and Professionalism
- Information and Knowledge Sharing
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Organization Information
Reports to: Head of Division Disease Control and Prevention
Directorate/Department: Africa CDC
Division: Disease Control and Prevention
Number of Direct Reports:
Number of Indirect Reports:
Job Grade: P2
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Purpose of Job
The African Union (AU), established as a unique Pan-African continental body, is charged with spearheading Africa’s rapid integration and sustainable development by promoting unity, solidarity, cohesion, and cooperation among the peoples of Africa and African States, as well as developing a new partnership worldwide. Its Headquarters is located in Ethiopia.
Officially launched in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 2017 as a specialized technical institution of the African Union, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is Africa’s first continent-wide public health agency. Africa CDC envisions a safer, healthier, integrated, and stronger Africa, where the Member States can effectively respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases and other public health threats. The agency’s mission is to strengthen Africa’s public health institutions’ capabilities to detect and respond quickly and effectively to disease outbreaks and other health burdens through an integrated network of continent-wide preparedness and response, surveillance, laboratory, and research programs.
Africa CDC has six strategic priority pillars:
- Public health surveillance and disease intelligence
- Public health emergency preparedness and response
- Public health laboratory systems and networks
- Public health information systems
- National public health institutes and research
- Disease control and prevention
In seeking to achieve these strategic objectives, a grant agreement was signed between Africa CDC and the World Bank to ensure the programme delivery capacity is adequate at Africa CDC in three main components:
- Support to the Africa CDC’s COVID-19 response
- Enhancing Africa CDC’s technical and programmatic functions to support AU Member States’ preparedness capacities
- Strengthening Africa CDC’s institutional capacity and operational structure
Hence, Africa CDC invites applicants who are citizens of Member States to apply for the position of Technical Officer – Community Health Systems for the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Division of Disease Control and Prevention.
Main Functions
Under the supervision of the Head of Division Disease Control and Prevention, the Technical Officer – Community Health Systems will provide technical support for the conceptualization and implementation of the continental coordination mechanism for community health on the continent towards institutionalized, integrated, and sustainable community health programs in Africa.
Specific Responsibilities
The Technical Officer will be responsible for the following:
- Support the development, validation, and implementation of the Africa CDC Community Health Systems strategy and ensure linkages to existing cross-cutting programs and units at Africa CDC as well as in Member States
- Support the design and implementation of advocacy activities within Member States for community health systems strengthening across the continent
- Support Member States in developing community health policy and guidance documents for Community Health Workers advocacy activities
- Support the conceptualization and implementation of the continental coordination mechanism for community health on the continent towards institutionalized, integrated, and sustainable community health programs in Africa
- Conduct Member States capacity building on cross-cutting community health workers programs challenges
- Support the implementation of Africa CDC initiatives/partnership to scale up community health workers programs on the continent
- Conduct regional workshops and webinars for cross-country learning, experience, and best practices sharing on the role of CHWs in pandemic preparedness and response/CHWs sustainability
- Lead or support country engagement processes for community health workers deployment for pandemic response
- Support community health workers deployment processes, define, and assess the deployment impact
- Support and organize regional Community Health Worker advocacy workshops for political prioritization and sustainability
- Support Member States in harmonizing community training curricula towards integrated community health service delivery at the community level
- Work with Member States to support the process of improving Africa CDC’s access to health-related data through coordination, collaboration, and technical assistance
- Support community health workforce development including developing specific training curricula and manuals for various audiences, partner engagement and management, and delivery of various workforce development activities
- Develop, review, and disseminate guidelines, standards of practice, protocols, and other tools to improve quality delivery in Member States
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Job requirements
Academic Requirements and Relevant Experience
- University bachelor’s degree in public health, medicine, epidemiology, health science, health-services research, or a related health discipline with at least 5 years of experience
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- An advanced degree in public health, epidemiology, medicine, health science, health services research, or a related health discipline with a minimum of 2 years of experience
Additional Requirements:
- Knowledge of public health programs, health sciences research, and health systems strengthening
- Experience in supporting projects and programs under government ministries and external donors
- Familiarity with administrative and management practices typically employed by public health and other public sector programs, particularly in the context of emergency response
- Knowledge of public health issues in Africa and previous experience working in Africa
- Knowledge of oral communication techniques and skill in presentation delivery, program consultation, and credible verbal response to inquiries
- Skills in translating technical information into presentations, briefings, reports, and funding proposals for both technical and lay audiences
- Demonstrable experience and in-depth knowledge of operations of the Africa CDC, Regional Coordinating Centers, and National Public Health Institutes will be an added advantage
- Understanding of the African Union’s working style and managing relationships with Member State entities and partners
Required Skills
- Knowledge of public health principles and practices as they relate to the implementation of public health programs and service delivery
- Diplomatic, representational, interpersonal, and communication skills, including experience successfully interacting with stakeholders and decision-makers
- Ability to collect, analyze, and use data to recommend, make, and communicate decisions of a technical nature to both scientific and lay audiences
- Technical and scientific writing skills, as well as narrative and financial reporting skills
- Ability to translate technical information into presentations, briefings, reports, and funding proposals for both technical and lay audiences
- Project planning and management skills for organizing, planning, and executing public health projects from conception through implementation
- Demonstrated computer skills, particularly with statistical and analytic tools such as R and Stata, as well as office software applications like MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
Leadership Competencies
- Strategic Insight
- Developing Others
- Change Management
- Managing Risk
Core Competencies
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Accountability Awareness and Compliance
- Learning Orientation
- Communicating with Influence
Functional Competencies
- Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Job Knowledge and Information Sharing
- Continuous Improvement Focus
- Drive for Results
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Tenure of Appointment:
The appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract for a period of one (1) year, of which the first three (3) months will be considered as a probationary period. Thereafter, the contract may be renewed for a similar period subject to funding availability, satisfactory performance, and agreed deliverables.
Gender Mainstreaming:
The AU Commission is an equal opportunity employer and qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.
Languages:
Proficiency in one of the AU working languages (Arabic, English, French, Kiswahili, Portuguese, and Spanish) is mandatory and fluency in another AU language is an added advantage.
Remuneration:
The salary attached to the position is an annual lump sum of:
- US$ 85,212.07 (P2 Step 5) inclusive of all allowances for internationally recruited staff
- US$ 66,751.81 inclusive of all allowances for locally recruited staff of the African Union Commission
Applications must be submitted no later than March 3, 2025, 11:59 p.m. EAT.
Only candidates who meet all job requirements and are selected for interviews will be contacted.
Consideration will be given only to candidates who have submitted a fully completed online application with a curriculum vitae (CV), an African passport, and the required academic qualifications (such as Diplomas, Bachelor’s degrees, Master’s degrees, and any relevant certificates related to the area of expertise).
The African Union is an equal opportunity employer, and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Candidates from less represented countries within the African Union are strongly encouraged to apply for positions that fit their profiles. These countries include:
Algeria, Angola, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Sahrawi D.R., Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Somalia, and Tunisia.
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