Vacancy title: Behavioral and Social Drivers (BeSD) Project Coordinator

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Deadline of this Job:
13 September 2022  

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, September 08, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Background:
The African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) is a non-profit organization established in 2005 with a mission to improve human health through the strengthening and expansion of applied epidemiology and laboratory capacity in partnership with Ministries of Health, Non-Governmental Organizations, international agencies, private sector and other public health agencies. AFENET has its headquarters in Kampala, Uganda with operations in more than 30 African Countries.
Many countries in the African region are struggling to achieve high uptake of COVID-19 vaccines despite adequate supply. To increase vaccine coverage, it is crucial to understand behavioral and social drivers (BeSD) of low vaccination locally. Global guidance for achieving high uptake of BeSD of vaccination was recently published in 2022. However, traditional methodology for collecting such BeSD require expensive and often time-consuming surveys that are typically conducted nationally, and only conducted periodically-not regularly- to monitor drivers and barriers of vaccination, track trends, and examine long-term impact of potential interventions.
Routine tracking of core BeSD indicators will offer insights into how to continually improve program implementation by generating timely and localized insights on vaccine demand. These insights will enable national and subnational immunization teams to be responsive, address demand gaps, and ultimately increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake. Global partners, including WHO and GAVI, have expressed a need for regular collection, analysis, and use of BeSD drivers and barriers to COVID-19 vaccination at the country-level, both nationally and subnationally. The objectives of this pilot exercise are to 1) establish a methodology to regularly collect data on validated BeSD core indicators at
the community level, leveraging existing data collection modalities or introducing enabling technologies such as short message service (SMS) and/or Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology and 2) demonstrate a feasible and acceptable aggregate information system (i.e. DHIS2) that can support national and subnational routine analysis and use of BeSD data
AFENET seeks a candidate for a full-time position to support the Ministry of Health and CDC Zambia and US CDC team and partners to establish a system for collecting BeSD data and integrate the system with the national HMIS.

Major responsibilities:
1. Support the Ministry of Health, AKROS, HISP-Zambia, CDC team, during planning, implementation, and dissemination of results from the BeSD project, including the following activities:
a. Support the development of a data collection system for collecting behavioral and social drivers’ data from the community, including functional and non-functional system requirements, data elements, and reporting requirements
b. Provide technical support in the development of training materials and awareness of the BeSD data collection system
c. Support the role out of the BeSD data collection system
d. Raise awareness among communities of the need for collecting BeSD
e. Monitor the quality of collected BeSD data, and enhance the use of these data at every level of the health system
f. Facilitate the integration of the BeSD data collection system with the National Information system DHIS2 for routine monitoring of BeSD data
2. Coordination and collaboration:
a. Coordinate activities between MoH, AKROS, HISP-Zambia and CDC, ensure the activities align with the workplan and implemented according to the timeline
b. Participate in meetings and workshops in Zambia relevant to implementing BeSD information system, BeSD data collection, analysis and dissemination
c. Prepare workplans and budgets for CDC/AFENET-supported activities related to BeSD project and share with key stakeholders for feedback
d. Organize and help to facilitate meetings and workshops and routinely communicate with Ministry of Health officials, partners in Zambia as relevant to progress activities
e. Organize and regularly attend meetings with the CDC-Zambia Project PoC, MoH staff, AKROS and other collaborating partners
f. Develop and submit written and/or verbal progress reports to AFENET and CDC-Zambia, CDC -HQ at the required frequencies

3. Perform other duties as assigned that are directly related to this position.

Required Qualifications and experience:
• The applicant should hold a Master’s degree in Public Health, Informatics, Epidemiology or related field
• At least five years of experience in planning, implementation and/or monitoring and evaluation of health information systems in Zambia
• Experience working with District Health Information System (DHIS)2 or other related HMIS
• Proven experience in data use, data quality, data management and advocacy for evidence informed decision making.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Associate Degree

Job application procedure

Your Documents MUST be Submitted to :

• https://recruitment.afenet.net

AND to

• sec@afenet.net -Ref: #AFE_ZAM_BSDPC (MUST Appear in Email Title for position of Behavioral and Social Drivers Project Coordinator )

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