Job details
Surveillance Officer at Malaria Consortium – Country Offices
Key job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience level
- Mid level
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Qualification
- Advanced degree
- Job sector
- Healthcare, Nonprofit and Development
- Location
- Nigeria
- Hiring company
- Malaria Consortium
- Listing status
- Open for applications
- Application deadline
Malaria Consortium is recruiting a permanent, full-time Surveillance Officer for its Technical team. The position can be based in one of its country offices, preferably in the UK, Nigeria or Uganda, subject to the applicant’s right to work in that location.
Role overview
The Surveillance Officer will strengthen public health surveillance across country and multi-country programmes, connect data from different systems and translate findings into decisions about programme delivery and impact.
Responsibilities
- Support surveillance system design, strengthening and use across health programmes.
- Integrate and analyse epidemiological, entomological, routine health, digital, logistics, survey and contextual data.
- Identify trends, data-quality gaps and biases, and produce clear, actionable intelligence for programmes, policymakers and partners.
- Apply epidemiological and statistical techniques to understand programme contributions and assess intervention impact.
- Support epidemic preparedness, early-warning analytics and evidence-based response.
- Develop country teams’ capacity in surveillance data use, secondary analysis and communication of findings.
- Present complex analytical results clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Contribute to technical programme activities, organisational planning and collaboration across teams.
Requirements
- A postgraduate degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics or a related field.
- Experience integrating, analysing and interpreting routine health information systems and surveillance datasets from multiple sources.
- Experience applying epidemiological and statistical methods to assess programme impact with routine data.
- Understanding of epidemic preparedness, early warning and the contribution of surveillance systems to public health.
- Practical quantitative analysis and visualisation skills using R, Stata, Power BI or comparable software.
- Experience with public health programmes, NGOs, government or research institutions, including surveillance system strengthening.
- Experience mentoring, coaching or training technical teams.
- Strong analytical, data-quality, communication, organisational, project-management and computer skills.
- Legal right to work in a Malaria Consortium country-office location, with preference for the UK, Nigeria or Uganda.
Salary and benefits
The successful applicant will receive the national salary and benefits applicable in the country where they have the right to work.
How to apply
Complete the online application for the Surveillance Officer role. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, and the position may be filled before the closing date.
Application deadline:
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About the employer
Malaria Consortium is a non-profit organisation specialising in malaria prevention, control and treatment and other communicable diseases affecting vulnerable populations. Its public-health work also covers child health and neglected tropical disease interventions.
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