The World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office for Ghana seeks to engage highly motivated professionals to support the implementation of the polio outbreak response activities in ghana. This position will be filled only by Ghanaians. The incumbent should contribute to ensuring high professional, ethical, and institutional standards of the Organization. Meet professional conduct expectations, and basic universal norms of honesty, integrity, loyalty, and lawful behavior. This includes compliance with the above, including ability to: perform within existing organizational structures and governance; adhere to WHO’s processes; demonstrate gender and cultural sensitivity; demonstrate respectful and constructive interpersonal communication; perform as a team player; and demonstrate due diligence.
Recruitment Of Driver at World Health Organization – Ghana
Job duties
Drives office vehicles to provide transportation of authorized personnel and delivery and collection of mail, documents and other items;Meets official personnel at the airport and facilitates immigration and customs formalities as required;Responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the assigned vehicle, checks oil, water, battery, brakes, tires, etc., performs minor repairs and arranges for other repairs, regular servicing and ensures that the vehicle is kept clean;Logs official trips, daily mileage, gas consumptions, oil changes, greasing, etc.;Ensures that the steps required by the rules and regulations are taken in case of involvement in accident;Performs other duties as required.Click To Check And Apply
Recruitment Of Data Manager at World Health Organization – Ghana
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Pre-Implementation Data Sets (Social Mobilization, Micro plan, Training Check list, Pre-implementation check list)Support the EPI Programme to collate, clean and share all Intra-campaign data sets; Intra-campaign dashboard (Daily)Clean, analyze and share supervisory checklist in Open Data Kit (ODK) with the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Regions (Daily)Support the EPI Programme to collate, clean and share with the EOC and WHO Office through NPOs (where necessary) all post-campaign data sets (End/In-process, monitoring data, LQAS and Independent monitoring)Support the EPI Programme to write comprehensive reports on all campaignsThe data manager will on a weekly basis support data harmonization between the surveillance department and the polio laboratory by performing the following;Follow-up and support the Disease Surveillance Department to update the Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) Database with results received from the labSupport the Disease Surveillance Department (DSD) to update Measles and Yellow Fever Databases with Lab resultsSupport data quality checks for consistency in information between the Lab and DSD for the AFP, Measles and Yellow Fever databases and flag up any discrepancies for harmonizationSupport in preparation of the Weekly AFP surveillance updatesThe data manager on a monthly and quarterly basis will support national level to generate the AFP Surveillance report using a standard reporting format by generating the following:AFP surveillance indicators by Regions and DistrictsUpdate number of WPVs, cVDPVs and Compatibles by regions and districtsCalculate and updating Non-polio enteroviruses (NPENT) ratesAnd other relevant indicators as necessarySupport the National level with data presentation (Visualization in Microsoft PowerBI, Dashboards etc., analysis, and interpretationCreate and secure back-up copies of dataProvide data management support to the Regions and DistrictsConduct data management training to build the capacity of officersClick To Check And Apply
Recruitment Of Surveillance Officer at World Health Organization – Ghana
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1. Collaborate closely with GPEI partners and officials of the Ministry of Health/Ghana Health Service at national and sub national levels for all surveillance and immunization activities, providing regular technical support and feedback.
2. Support Ministry of Health at all levels to strengthen and maintain a sensitive surveillance system within the framework of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) with a special focus on polio eradication, and vaccine preventable diseases as follows:
a. Support development and implementation of response work plans
b. Support active case search, acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) case investigation, validation, 60 days follow up
c. Support mapping of high risk and special populations and provide technical support to areas that have these populations
d. Support for Environmental surveillance activities and operations.
e. Support epidemiological investigation, risk assessment and outbreak response activities.
3. Support the Ministry of Health (MOH) at all levels to strengthen immunization services especially in high risk and special populations through:
a. Support to plan and conduct good quality Supplementary Immunization Activities
b. Support for mapping of high risk and special populations, development of micro plans and strategies in areas of assignment
c. Support for high risk areas to conduct risk assessments and opportunistic immunization activities to increase population immunity.
d. Support capacity building activities for immunization personnel at all levels.
4. Monitor and evaluate the planning and implementation of activities related to polio eradication, routine immunization and vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) surveillance.
5. Conduct regular analysis and interpretation of epidemiological, surveillance and immunization data to support appropriate follow up actions by the government and partners.
6. Support implementation of other health priorities as a part of WHO’s Country Cooperation Strategy
7. Undertake any other tasks/duties as assigned by supervisors
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Recruitment Of Programme Assistant at World Health Organization – Ghana
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Assist in receiving visitors and answer telephones, direct calls and take messages;Registers, classifies and routes incoming correspondence, documents and other materials;Compile, copy, sort, and file records of office activities, and other activities;Maintain and update filing, inventory, mailing, and database systems, either manually or using a computer;Collects and delivers mail, pouches and other communications from and to the post office, government agencies and other institutions;Sorts, delivers and picks up mail from various offices on the promises at regular intervals. Keeps records as required;Operate office machines, such as photocopiers and scanners, duplicating machines and personal computers;Using appropriate tracking tools, follow-up on and ensure that target dates and deadlines are met, and that correspondence and queries are responded to in a timely mannerPrepare travel requests for official WHO travel. Make flight and hotel reservations, etcThe incumbent will serve as back up to the team members in similar or different positions within the WCOSupport implementation of other health priorities as a part of WHO’s Country Cooperation StrategyPerform other related duties as required or instructed and may be required to deliver messages and run errands.Click To Check And Apply
Recruitment Of Coordinator at World Health Organization – Ghana
Job duties
Support the preparation of high-quality pre-implementation (micro-planning, training, logistics.) plans and keep records of all microplansLead the preparations of preparedness dashboards for all levelsSupport the implementation of microplans at all levelsGuide the implementation of key recommendations and agreed action points from the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and meetings aimed at raising the quality of campaignSupport the monitoring of supplemental immunization activities (SIA) implementation especially in high risk areas and institute timely corrective actionsParticipate in the training on lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) survey and independent monitoring (IM) and support supervision of Independent monitors and ensure findings used for immediate actionDocument best practices, challenges, appropriate action and feed into planning for subsequent round i.e. evidence-based planning, systematic feedback to government authorities.Support the National EOC in developing evidence-based solutions and innovations for improving the quality of SIAs.Support implementation of other health priorities as a part of WHO’s Country Cooperation Strategy Undertake any other tasks/duties as assigned by supervisors.Click To Check And Apply
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