Africa Regional Technical Advisor OV & LF Surveys

Title: Africa Regional Technical Advisor OV & LF Surveys
Job Description:

Sightsavers implements projects in over 30 countries in Africa and South Asia working to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote the rights of people with disabilities.

Title: Africa Regional Technical Advisor OV & LF Surveys

Location: Nigeria – Abuja, Mali, Senegal, Cameroon or Ghana

Contract: 2-Year Fixed Term Contract

Salary: Local Terms and Conditions apply

About the role

Sightsavers’ work in Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) aims to reduce health disparities and disease burdens by building sustainable, locally owned health programmes. As a Country Coordinating Partner on the RLM Fund expansion project, a $500M initiative running from 2024 to 2030, Sightsavers supports efforts to eliminate NTDs in Africa. This project, backed by the UAE and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, requires extensive technical and programme management support to conduct necessary surveys.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical support for onchocerciasis surveys to various staff.
• Review and produce tools for standardised onchocerciasis survey processes.
• Develop strategies and frameworks for LF technical activities.
• Provide technical support for LF elimination strategies and frameworks.
• Share best practices in LF programme implementation across projects.
• Lead in-country training for LF and OV survey data collection.
• Ensure linkage between field and laboratory survey data.
• Coordinate technical advice in multi-funded LF and OV surveys.
• Support countries in analysing and reporting LF and OV data.

This is a highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the Job Description for full details.

Essential:

• A detailed understanding of the transmission, pathogenesis and epidemiology of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis
• Experience planning and implementing onchocerciasis serological and entomological surveys
• Demonstrable experience and/or qualifications in LF programmes implementation including LF MDA and survey planning and implementation
• Experience of pre-TAS/EMS planning and implementation
• Experience of school base and community based TAS implementation
• Willingness and availability to travel for field visits, attending meetings, workshops and conferences, subject to an appropriate risk assessment being in place

To apply for this exciting opportunity, please complete an application via our recruitment portal. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying.

As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.

Sightsavers is an employer that does not tolerate any form of harassment and has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse. All potential candidates will be subjected to rigorous background checks and controls.