Work Location: Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
Other Possible Locations: Rural Ethiopia
Expected Travel: up to 30%
Language Requirement: Fluency in reading, writing, and speaking
English
Employee Duration: Active Full-Time
Type of Post: Accompanied - Family
Funding: THIS POSITION IS PENDING DONOR
APPROVAL
Application Deadline:
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DESCRIPTION
CARE Ethiopia seeks a Technical Advisor for Neglected
Tropical Diseases to support an upcoming, USAID/Ethiopia-funded, project that
will use an integrated WASH approach to address the burden of five to seven
highly-prevalent neglected tropical diseases on vulnerable populations across
the country.
The effort is expected to further goals and objectives of
current Mission programming to eradicate lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis,
onchocerciasis, blinding trachoma, and three soil-transmitted helminthes (hookworm,
roundworm, and whipworm) that disproportionally affect poor communities with a
lack of access to clean water and high rates of exposure to disease
vectors. By ensuring alignment with current implementing partners of
USAID’s flagship Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program, CARE plans to
continue reaching the most marginalized in the country’s designated focus
areas: Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Oromia, SNNPR, Somali, and Tigray,
among other regions.
Working through woreda steering committees, CARE presently
targets activities at the zonal level in conjunction with water, health,
education, environmental protection partners. Using evidence-based
approaches, including the SAFE strategy for trachoma, the project will
implement strategies around water access and supply, sanitation, and school-
and houshold-level hygiene. Illustrative project activities include
conducting extensive mapping of water resources; developing project strategies
based on maps that overlay trachoma, schistosomaisis, and soil-transmitted
helminthiasis; collaborating with local government to improve community-managed
water supply systems; expanding and deepening household latrine access and
solid-waste management; implementing a school-led total sanitation approach;
effecting (rolling-out) behavior change communication campaigns, while
leveraging local media; and creating manuals and training local WASH champions
for sustainable project results. Through these and other activities, CARE
will work through existing policy mechanisms, and local fora, movements, and
groups, to gather data, develop and implement project activities, report
impacts, and disseminate findings and best practices.
The successful candidate will contribute expertise on
dracunculiasis/Guinea worm, trachoma, lymphatic filariasis,
onchocerciasis/river blindness, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminths, or
other disease control. The Advisor is expected to interact effectively
with government and partner stakeholders on NTDs.
Specific duties and responsibilities:
- Providing
technical assistance to the project;
- Supporting
assessments, research, and monitoring and evaluation;
- Building
capacity with local organizations and communities; and
- Liaising
with partners and stakeholders.
Minimum qualifications:
- Medical
Degree or Master’s degree in Public Health.
Desired:
- Experience
with USAID programs.
