India: Senior Medical Advisor for Disease Outbreak

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RTI is seeking a Senior Medical Advisor for Disease Outbreak who will provide technical assistance, consultation and support services to a potential infectious disease (e.g. EBOLA) response and recovery efforts in India. The contractor would provide assistance to CDC India in their subject matter expert role to the India government emergency/incident management system during the disease EOC activation and emergency response operation. In this role the contractor would work closely with the emergency management development team leaders, the international task force leaders, host government team leaders, and in-country emergency management specialists to coordinate support activities designed to improve emergency management capacity in India.

Qualifications:

· Medical Degree

· Experience in senior advisory positions. Specific skills include the ability to communicate clearly, effectively and succinctly, to work cooperatively in a team environment and support different working styles, to quickly and effectively resolve problems and make recommendations.

· Knowledge of emergency management principles, response operations, public health practices, and the fundamentals of establishing a national level emergency management system or a Ministry of Health emergency operations center.

· Skills associated with establishing an organization for response planning, conducting response management, providing logistical support, tracking resources, and coordinating policies and operations in a national level or a Ministry of Health emergency operations center. These skills are used to assist the host government in a response to a public health emergency event.

· Ability to connect the use of the emergency management physical space, identified as an emergency operations center (EOC), with the management systems used to conduct or coordinate emergency operations through the use of emergency management functional staff.

· Specific knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience with:

· EOC and emergency response management, EOC administration, and event/emergency management system policies, protocols, and procedures.

· Outbreak response planning and operations, gaining situational awareness, and managing outbreak information.

· Resource management, logistic support, and finance considerations.

· Evaluating a response environment and the options for dealing with it; experience in developing action plans (engaging in a planning function).

· Initiating and monitoring a response (engaging in an operational function).

· Making decisions about how to respond (engaging in a management function).

· Acquiring resources to respond and an awareness of how to track resources (engaging in a logistical function and an administrative function).

· Reporting activities to someone with authority either to seek direction or to account for their activities (engaging in a policy function).

· Familiarity with Risk communications, environmental infection control communications, and the general flow of communication information.

· Coordinating international cooperation and liaison support, and mobilizing international support for public health emergencies.

· Coordinating medical services that include infrastructure, human resources, specimen transport, patient evacuation and care, medical equipment, and medical supplies.

· Skills/experience in project management, data analysis, organizational development.

· Understanding of the missions, policies, operations, resources and organizational structures of the key partners.

· Experience in developing and maintaining working relationships with a broad range of individuals, public health systems, sectors and agencies.

· Language proficiency in Hindi preferred

· Level IV speaking and writing proficiency in English Wx16*N

To apply please send your CV and cover letter toglobalhealthresearch@rti.org. Please use Senior Medical Advisor for Disease Outbreak (India) in the subject line.**