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Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Duty station: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Contract type: Full-time
Grade: Not specified
Applicant eligibility: Not explicit in source
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VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone. We are driven by a vision of a world where each person has the health care needed to thrive. VillageReach’s goal is to reduce inequities in access to quality primary health care for 350 million people by 2030. We work with governments, the private sector, partners and communities to build responsive primary health care systems that deliver health products, information and services to the most under-reached. As a locally driven and globally connected organization, VillageReach has offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and the United States.
This position will operate under the direct supervision of the Immunization Manager. The Technical Assistant will provide strategic and operational support across all immunization areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Specifically, the role will focus on the planning, implementation, and monitoring of Periodic Intensification of Routine Immunization (PIRI/IPVS), as well as targeted immunization interventions in humanitarian settings, particularly in Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, Maniema, and Tanganyika. In addition, the Technical Assistant will support dedicated vaccine supply chain work in Lualaba and Haut-Lomami. The Technical Assistant will support activity planning and microplanning, supervise interventions, identify and follow up on zero-dose and under-immunized children, integrate community engagement and feedback mechanisms, and analyze and use data for decision-making. Working closely with the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), technical partners, and local community based-organization, the Technical Assistant will contribute to improving immunization coverage, service quality, and the timeliness of responses to immunization-related emergencies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Technical Assistant will support the implementation of Supplemental Immunization Activities (SIAs/AVS), with a focus on applying best practices and ensuring compliance with national guidelines. The role includes supporting the submission and validation of Performance Monitoring Tools (OSP) at provincial and Health Zone levels, coordinating independent monitoring and LQAS surveys during SIAs (polio, measles, yellow fever, etc.), and contributing to analysis and dissemination of results to DPS, EPI coordination units, Health Zones, and partners. The Technical Assistant will also support coordination of technical meetings, surveillance and performance reviews, documentation and dissemination of best practices and success stories, and may be assigned any other relevant tasks related to immunization activities, including supply chain support, based on programmatic needs.
VillageReach has ten (10) Organizational Competencies that describe how we work together and get things done that are grouped into three strategic areas of Achieving Great Results, Setting Direction and, Bringing Others With you. For a full description, please download our Organizational Competency document.
Achieving Great Results:
1. Risk Taking and Innovation
· Key Behaviors: Comfort with ambiguity, curiosity, adaptability, unconstrained and undeterred creativity, resourcefulness.
2. Business Judgement
· Key Behaviors: Getting to root causes, understanding environment, navigating complexity and ambiguity, entrepreneurial energy.
3. Building Strong Teams
· Key Behaviors: Trust in Subject Matter Experts (SME’s); radical candor to resolve conflict, hold each other accountable as colleagues, focused on results, commitment to mission.
Setting Direction:
4. Compelling Communication
· Key Behaviors: Clear and evidence-based communication, audience adaptability, curious listener.
5. Resilient Self Leadership
· Key Behaviors: Self-aware, plan how one shows up, emotionally intelligent, use one’s own agency and takes accountability.
6. Stewardship and Personal Alignment
· Key Behaviors: Take ownership, display ethical conduct, effective at resource management, alignment of personal objectives with organizational goals and mission, focus on continuous improvement and sustainability.
Bringing Others with You:
7. Influencing Leadership
· Key Behaviors: Cultivate trust, influences to make change, navigate the matrix structure.
8. Radical Partnership
· Key Behaviors: Share information and credit, address conflict, increase impact through collaboration, political and contextual awareness.
9. Cultivates a Growth Mindset
· Key Behaviors: Seek out diverse input, demonstrate flexibility in thinking and curiosity, embrace challenges, demonstrate persistence, seek learning opportunities.
10. Cultural Intelligence and Inclusion
· Key Behaviors: Continuous learning and ally-ship across cultural lines, challenge prejudice and bias, modeled in one’s own behavior.
VillageReach has an established compensation structure that is based on the relevant market and internally transparent. We hire people into the established range based on one’s experience and education and considering internal equity. We do not inquire about salary history. Please refer to our compensation overview on our website for more information and for more information on employee benefits.
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