Infectious Disease Surveillance Consultant, Epidemic Preparedness and Response, Global Health Programs

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Location: Liberia

PATH seeks to recruit an Infectious Disease Surveillance Consultant for the STRengthening Infectious disease DEtection Systems (STRIDES) Project. The global project will support and strengthen surveillance, detection, and analytical capacity for infectious diseases across both human and animal health.

The Infectious Disease Surveillance Consultant will provide technical assistance to strengthen sustainable surveillance systems in Liberia, with specific focus on Objective 2 of the STRIDES Liberia Year 2 workplan: developing sustainable surveillance systems using event-based surveillance (EBS) and indicator-based surveillance (IBS) systems to detect events of significance for public health and health security.

The consultant will support the scale-up of event-based surveillance, community-based surveillance, IDSR, IDSR standards, surveillance guidelines, training materials, mentorship, and surveillance system assessments for priority infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance across human and animal health. The consultant will work closely with the National Public Health Institute of Liberia, relevant Liberian Ministry partners, county-level surveillance teams, health facility staff, epidemiologists, public health practitioners, and other key stakeholders to strengthen infectious disease surveillance readiness, workforce capacity, coordination, documentation, and implementation monitoring.

The Surveillance Consultant must meet or exceed the required qualifications listed below. This individual should be a subject matter expert who will assist with the technical infectious disease surveillance aspects of the project, including supporting the development, adaptation, implementation, and monitoring of policies, guidelines, tools, training approaches, and infectious disease surveillance improvement plans to ensure high-quality delivery of infectious disease surveillance activities in Liberia.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide technical support for the scale-up of event-based and community-based surveillance in selected counties, including community-level early warning systems for priority infectious diseases and the development of practical roadmaps for expansion.

• Adapt and support implementation of EBS, CBS, IDSR, and zoonotic outbreak preparedness training materials, including planning, facilitation, documentation, follow-up, and training-of-trainers approaches for relevant health workers and public health practitioners.

• Review, update, and develop SOPs, job aids, guidelines, communication materials, educational materials, and implementation tools to strengthen surveillance systems, clarify operational roles, and support EMCE integration.

• Support implementation of mentorship and peer-learning approaches for prior training participants, including cohort engagement, refresher sessions, troubleshooting, and practical follow-up support.

• Support the rollout, coordination, monitoring, and assessment of IDSR and IDSR standards, and conduct rapid reviews and surveillance assessments for priority infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance across human and animal health.

• Coordinate closely with national and subnational government counterparts, implementing partners, and stakeholders, and develop required roadmaps, implementation plans, reports, assessment summaries, meeting documentation, action trackers, field visit summaries, training reports, and mentorship updates.

Required qualifications and experience:

• Master’s degree in epidemiology, public health, medicine, nursing, infectious disease or tropical medicine, health information systems, veterinary public health, or another closely related field from a recognized institution.

• At least 5 years of progressively relevant experience in infectious disease surveillance, IDSR, event-based surveillance, community-based surveillance, outbreak preparedness and response, One Health surveillance, AMR surveillance, or related surveillance system strengthening work.

• Demonstrated experience supporting national or subnational surveillance systems, including EBS, CBS, IDSR, or IDSR+ implementation, training, mentorship, supervision, monitoring, documentation, and use of SOPs, job aids, guidelines, communication tools, training materials, and implementation plans.

• Experience conducting rapid reviews, desk reviews, surveillance assessments, training needs assessments, or system readiness assessments, and translating findings into practical recommendations, roadmaps, action trackers, reports, technical briefs, or implementation plans.

• Experience working with government ministries, national public health institutes, county-level health teams, health facilities, epidemiologists, surveillance officers, public health practitioners, and other relevant public health stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to facilitate technical working groups, stakeholder consultations, review meetings, training workshops, and action-planning sessions, with strong coordination, writing, facilitation, communication, and analytical skills.

• Experience supporting zoonotic outbreak preparedness and response, One Health coordination, human-animal health surveillance linkages, or AMR surveillance is strongly preferred; prior experience working in Liberia or comparable public health surveillance settings is also strongly preferred.

• Excellent spoken and written English required, with the ability to work independently in complex environments with multiple priorities and short timelines; willingness to travel within Liberia to support national and subnational surveillance activities.

• Must have legal authorization to work in Liberia.

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