BACKGROUND
AND OBJECTIVES OF THE FUNCTION

The Polio/EPI program in the Republic of South
Sudan supports the Ministry of Health in ensuring high level case-based
surveillance for VPDS, enhanced preparedness, and response to outbreaks and
supplementary immunization activities. The WCO continues to support the MoH in
ensuring that the country remains Polio free, maintain certification level of
AFP surveillance indicators and performance indicators for other VPD,
and utilizes the WHO recommended WHO strategies to achieve the set goals.

The vaccine-preventable disease surveillance is
evolving a lot of data for AFP, Measles, environmental, AVADAR surveillance
including the recently introduced Rota sentinel surveillance. All these
programs have their own dataset and need to be entered, analysed and interpreted
in a timely manner to meet the regional standard and to share database and
generate weekly feedback for above-mentioned programs including conducting a
day today analysis for the program improvement purpose.

The programme has an international data manager;
however with the ramp down the programme currently does not have the needed
funding for 2020, there is also the need to build National capacity for data
management, with the plans that such assets will be transferred to the National
MOH. The data clerk will support the National data manager to adequately
prepare for the polio certification free status and this will involve critical
analysis of the data available along with updates at all levels (HFs, Payams,
counties, and state).

DESCRIPTION
OF DUTIES

Under the guidance and leadership of the WHO
Communicable Disease cluster lead and the focal person for EPI, the Data Clerk
is expected to support the
Data Manager to be more involved in critical analysis, producing weekly
feedbacks and to execute the following activities

Objective no. 1:
To assist the data manager manage all Vaccine Preventable Disease (VPDs)
surveillance, Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIAs), Expanded Program on
Immunization data (EPI) with the following tasks

• Cleaning
  hand written reports for errors including entering data from hand written
  reports/case investigation forms/surveillance tools and generating output
  reports.

• Monitor
  Zero Dose Cases and provide timely and regular feedback to all levels

• Update
  the current Zero reporting/Surveillance focal sites reporting tools for Acute
  Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)/Vaccine Preventable Disease (VPD) Surveillance.

• Assist
  in the review, analysis, and feedback on AFP/VPD Surveillance at the National
  and State levels

• Update
  the available reporting system/data base on AFP, Measles and VPD

• Review
  & Organize Data on SIA’s for easy reference and use in the future.

• Regularly
  review, analyze and provide timely feedback of EPI/VPD Data at all levels
  (National, State, and county).

• Regularly
  monitor the Open Data Kit (ODK) platform, regularly perform analysis as
  required.

• Support
  in the Monitoring and analysis of the Auto Visual AFP Detection and Reporting
  (AVADAR) platform data.

• Maintain
  and up-date filing of all data pertaining to disease surveillance which
  includes AFP, Measles, Rota virus and Case Verification.

• Run
  Data Quality Checks and provide feedback of EPI/VPD Surveillance and SIA
  data (Follow up with States to track and acquire missing/incomplete data, identify
  incoherent data and notify relevant levels accordingly.

Objective No. 2:
To monitor and track Polio, Measles and Rota Virus Laboratories results at all
levels captured and updated

Planned output:

• Track
  sample shipment from states to the central/national hub.

• Update
  the relevant databases with results received from Laboratory feedback and
  ensure that results are communicated to the states and partners in a timely
  fashion.

• Prepare
  Alerts for Detailed Case Investigation Forms and cases due for sixty days
  follow-up and ensure timely Submission to relevant levels.

REQUIRED
QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential:

• Completion
  of secondary education supplemented by training and/or experience in Bio-statistics,
  Statistics, IT, Computer Science, Demography or other related field

Desirable:

• University
  Degree/Diploma in Health Information Systems, Bio-statistics, Statistics, IT,
  Computer Science, Demography or other related field.

Experience

Essential:

• At least 3 years
  of practical experience in administrative/clerical data processing and
  management

Desirable:

• Working
  experience in the UN system or any non-governmental international
  humanitarian organization

Use
of language skills

Essential: Excellent
knowledge of English. Working knowledge
of Arabic will be an asset.

Specific skills required:

• Computer
  literate with good knowledge of; Epinfo, Microsoft office suit, open data
  kit, DHIS2 and other Web based applications/ information systems

ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION

• Remuneration
  – this is a GS04 level assignment with a monthly remuneration of $1,220.

• Only
  candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.

• A
  written test may be used as a form of screening.

• If
  your candidature is retained for interview, you will be required to provide, in
  advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for
  this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained
  from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education
  Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of
  Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
  Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link:
  http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED
  and will require individual review.

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  information on WHO's operations please visit: http://www.who.int.

• WHO
  is committed to workforce diversity.

• WHO
  has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form
  of tobacco.

• Applications
  from women are particularly encouraged.

• WHO's
  workforce adheres to the WHO Values Charter and is committed to put the WHO
  Values into practice - https://www.who.int/about/who-we-are/our-values

• Holders
  of Special Service Agreements (SSA) shall perform the work as independent
  contractors in a personal capacity, and not as a representative of any entity
  or authority. The execution of the work under an SSA contract does not create
  an employer/employee relationship between WHO and the SSA holder.

• WHO
  shall have no responsibility whatsoever for any taxes, duties, social security
  contributions or other contributions payable by the SSA holder. The SSA holder
  shall be solely responsible for withholding and paying any taxes, duties,
  social security contributions and any other contributions which are applicable
  to the SSA holder in each location/jurisdiction in which the work hereunder is
  performed, and the SSA holder shall not be entitled to any reimbursement
  thereof by WHO.