Public Health Specialist, Surveillance at U.S. Embassy South Africa

Duties

• Under the direct supervision of the CDC South Africa Program Director for Global Health Security, the incumbent serves as a technical advisor to all activities related to policy, guidance, programming, and national context that enables  implementation of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). Incumbent is the agency primary public health technical expert on all activities aimed at supporting South Africa Ministry of Health leadership in enhancing health security, institutional capacity to prevent, detect, respond to public health emergencies due to disease outbreak, natural disaster, or conflict, and has oversight of key components of the CDC South Africa Global Health Security portfolio, including public health workforce development, development of national public health institutes, and public health preparedness and response. Incumbent has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications and Evaluations
Requirements:
All selected candidates must be able to obtain and hold a: 

Public Trust security clearance. 

• All selected candidates will be subject to a background investigation and may be subject to a pre-employment medical exam.  
• Selected candidate must be able to begin working within a reasonable period of time 12 weeks upon receipt of agency authorization and/or clearances/certifications or their candidacy may end

Education Requirements:

• Master of Public Health, MPH, Master of Science Public Health (MSPH) Degree, or host country equivalent in epidemiology is required.

Please address this factor in your ERA application under Education.

Evaluations:

• You will be evaluated against the qualifications and requirements in this vacancy announcement. 
• You may be asked to complete a pre-employment language or skills test.
• You must complete the application form and provide the required documents.  Your application must address all the position qualifications and requirements including education, experience, language, and any knowledge/skills/abilities listed.  If you fail to submit a complete application, then your application may be disqualified for this position.

Qualifications:
Experience:

• Five years of mid- to senior-level public health experience in public health institutional capacity building, emergency preparedness and response, outbreak investigation and response, humanitarian health response, infectious disease surveillance, public health laboratory, public health workforce development, or other epidemiology, infectious diseases or related scientific area is required.

Deadline:1st June,2026