EWARS - Surveillance Facilitator

Syria

Medicine/Nursing - Humanitarian/Disasters

Finished or Exempted (For male)

The Surveillance Facilitator will be performing the required Tasks below:

1. Establish and maintain EWARS sentinel sites in assigned area as required.
2. Collect weekly EWARS data from sentinel sites, conduct quality control, computerize, and assess data patterns.
3. Communicate rapidly with the focal point of DoH and technical officers ORGANIZATION Syria, including the hub, on any sudden occurrences or unusual trends of priority/ epidemic prone diseases for investigation.
4. Coordinate with DoH rapid response team and facilitate outbreak investigations, specimen collection and shipment; collect descriptive data, apply statistical measures and epidemiological terms to develop a hypothesis; apply analytical methods to test the hypothesis.
5. Detect, verify, confirm, and coordinate and document responses to disease outbreaks or emergencies throughout the district or assigned areas.
6. Set up an active surveillance system for communicable diseases, especially measles, pertussis, acute watery diarrhea, influenza like illness, AFP, and other Vaccine preventable diseases as well as any disease that crosses the alert threshold.
7. In collaboration with DoH conduct monitoring supervision visits of reporting sites
8. Train the sentinel EWARS reporting sites to:
• Perform active and passive surveillance for case finding in health facilities.
• Timely complete the weekly reporting forms.
• Timely verify disease rumors in the area.
• Report weekly data to the ORGANIZATION hub.
• Report immediately any disease cases that have crossed the alert threshold.
9. In collaboration with other health partners, assist in the implementation of risk communication and community engagement plans for infectious diseases prevention in assigned areas.
10. Manage administrative, logistic, and financial requirements of EWARS staff and activities in assigned areas, preparing all necessary documents, and following up on the processing of payments.
11. Conduct M&E activities related to EWARS and rapid responses (site visits, assessments …etc).
12. Any other task assigned by the supervisor.

ORGANIZATION Core Competencies:
• Knowing and managing yourself
• Producing Results
• Moving forward in a changing environment
• Setting an example

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

** The contract is valid until 31 Dec 2025, subject to extension.
** The candidate must be a current resident of North Rural Aleppo areas and familiar with Organization and public health programs.


*** Deadline for receiving CVs is: Friday 3 October 2025 @ 1400 hrs

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Sep 26, 2025

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