Since beginning work in South Africa in 1995, Jhpiego has implemented programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United Nations Population Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Jhpiego’s t... read moreechnical focus in South Africa has been on HIV/AIDS, family planning, reproductive health, cervical cancer prevention, and newborn and pediatric care in support of National Department of Health (NDOH) and Provincial Departments of Health initiatives.
Jhpiego has a preferred partnership with JPS Africa (formerly known as Jhpiego South Africa), a registered Section 21 nonprofit company in South Africa. Based in Pretoria, JPS Africa currently implements a program in collaboration with Jhpiego to prevent HIV among the populations of underserved districts in South Africa by scaling up safe, comprehensive voluntary medical male circumcision services.
Under the USAID-funded Maternal and Child Survival Program, Jhpiego is also developing a partnership with the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital Trust to support training and mentorship for specialized pediatric nursing in the new hospital currently under construction.
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Provides technical leadership and oversight for the implementation of the project in South Africa, including oversight to strategic planning of activities in support of program
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To provide epidemiological and technical support to the district in disease surveillance including ensuring there is proper integration of surveillance systems, implementation of Integr
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Recruitment
Proactively manages full life-cycle recruitment campaigns for staff positions and proposal submissions including management of sourcing, advertising, screening, i
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Manage the NMC data
Contributes to NMC surveillance to understand trends in relation to outbreaks and notifiable medical conditions.
Training surveillance officers, epidemio
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The Reaching Impact, Saturation, and Epidemic Control (RISE) project is a multi-year global project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) working with
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The Finance and Operations Director oversees the financial and operational aspect of Jhpiego programs in South Africa and contributes to ensuring that financial, administrative, and ope
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Oversee the development and sustainability of regular reports requested, externally or internally.
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Ensure the capturing, collection, and storing of the data m
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Implementation of the RISE GVAX Project, which includes supporting human resources technical assistance to partners.
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Improve provincial coordination of vacci
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Provide complex IT software solutions by working closely with business users throughout all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in support of the Institutes business pro
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To collect quality clinical data and samples from patients at designated sites for the relevant surveillance projects as per protocols. The surveillance officer will be involved in clin
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The Senior Scientist shall support the continual improvement of biosafety and biosecurity policy, procedure and implementation at the NICD in order to allow for compliance with national
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To promote research and development and maintain first world laboratory medicine and practice refined and specific procedures to achieve a final diagnosis for clinical application.
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The Epidemiologist will contribute to the epidemiology agenda for surveillance and research the Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases with a focus on emerging zoonotic and
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Implementation of the RISE GVAX Project, which includes supporting human resources technical assistance to partners.
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Engage with NICD users and assist with n
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Perform and/or supervise veterinary procedures and checks
Conduct follow up for weekly for health and welfare checks for small laboratory animals used for research and diagnost
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To provide M&E technical assistance to support the implementation of the RISE programme and ensure the capacitation of M&E team and good data quality to enhance data use
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M&E Plan and Systems Support
Lead the development of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Learning (MERL) Plan, results/logic framework, and support the develo
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Develop and implement an overarching KM plan, annual KM workplans, and documentation and dissemination plans.
Support the ongoing gathering of knowledge and learning dev
Pros: With Jhpiego Nigeria, you are sure to deliver quality services at all times. You will be given opportunity to use all your knowledge and skills. Capacity Building of employees is very key to Jhpiego as an organization
Cons: If you are coming into Jhpiego with a small salary, you will earn small and this is likely to affect you all through your stay with Jhpiego
