Successful candidate will be responsible and accountable for the development and implementation of epidemic preparedness and response activities across Somalia.

• Develop, coordination and implementation of client’s epidemic preparedness and response activities in Somalia, including identification of geographic areas of intervention, conducting assessments, and developing interventions.
• Strengthen epidemic preparedness and response capacity of staff at national, provincial and field locations.
• Developing and coordinating specific outbreak preparedness and response programming, including developing strategies, identifying geographic areas of intervention, developing activities such rapid response teams and outbreak response activities including contact tracing, in coordination with the medical logistics, WASH, epidemiology and Operations teams.
• Support and actively engage in all platforms for epidemic preparedness and response, including the preparedness working group.
• Coordinate closely with internal and external partners and others to promote and ensure harmonization of preparedness activities.
• Develop/adapt health facility, point of entry, and referral system assessments tools and lead assessments in priority provinces and health zones.
• Develop/adapt training material on infection prevention and control (IPC) and integrated disease surveillance and response (IDSR)
• Organize trainings for health workers at health facilities, point of entry staff on key topics
• Contribute to the development of standard operating procedures, guidelines and other technical documents for epidemic preparedness and response.
• Coordinate to promote cross-border collaboration focusing on enhancing preparedness, surveillance and response at the major POEs (airports) including the organization of cross-border meetings, trainings, and workshop for government officials and partners.
• Identify procurement and logistics needs for strengthening preparedness capacities of health facilities and points if entry including POE kits, IPC kits, and others.
• Support organization and facilitation of population mobility assessments including population mobility mappings and population flow monitoring; identify geographic areas for population mobility assessments; analyse findings and prepare reports.
• Perform such other duties as may be assigned