Country: India
Closing date: 14 Feb 2017
Service Objective:
The contractor serves as a subject matter expert for public health emergency management capacity development and providing technical expertise, support and training in the implementation of emergency management (EM) activities to the CDC, primarily to the India Government and health care workers at the local levels to continue to rapidly detect and respond to the EBOLA outbreak. The contractor coordinates closely with the CDC EBOLA response team on all activities.
Task Requirements
· Provides technical assistance to host government response and health care staff (primarily at the local levels) to meet established public health and emergency management standards to effectively respond and contain the EBOLA epidemic.
· Host government develops, provides and coordinates emergency management capacity development training for central and local level host country staff to build and improve health emergency preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation at the central and local levels. Activities include, but are not limited to:
o Emergency operations management, planning, logistics, administration tasks
o Public information/emergency risk communications
o Preparedness, Response and Situational awareness activities
o Safety and risk management functions
o Liaison coordination
· Assists CDC in the identification, tracking of progress, and provision of ongoing recommendations to enhance country’s incident management structure.
· Provides technical expertise on development of emergency management capacity at public health emergency management meetings.
· Provides input to the Incident Action Plan (IAP) and status reports (e.g. the Situation Reports- SITREPs. Reviews IAP’s, identifies response capability limitations, and recommends proposed tactics for coordinating response activities.
· Prepares input for response reports, slides, and other materials as required.
Task Deliverables:
· Review of plans, designs and implementation plans, analysis of outputs and outcomes, training needs assessments and training materials
Minimum Qualifications and/or Certifications:
· Master degree, plus 2 years of experience in emergency management or related area; or Bachelor degree, plus 3 years of experience in emergency management or related area;
· Specific knowledge, skills, abilities and past experience with:
o Emergency management principles, response operations, and the fundamentals of establishing and implementing an emergency management and response effort, or developing, providing TA to a foreign government /Ministry of Health Emergency Operations Center.
o 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.
o Resource management, logistic support, and finance considerations.
o Evaluating a response environment and experience in engaging in planning and developing action plans; and in initiating and monitoring a response.
o Acquiring resources to respond and an awareness of how to track resources
o Reporting activities to someone with authority either to seek direction or to account for their activities.
· Familiarity with:
o Risk communications, environmental infection control communications, and the general flow of communication information.
o Coordinating medical services that include infrastructure, human resources, specimen transport, patient evacuation and care, medical equipment, and medical supplies.
· Demonstrated experience in developing and providing effective training
· Excellent writing skills and experience in development of strategic documents, briefing documents, protocols, survey tools, and reports.
· Language proficiency in Hindi preferred
· Level IV speaking and writing proficiency in English
How to apply:
Interested candidates should email their cover letter and CV to TaNisha Harris @ resumes@ctsglobalusa.com