Technical Advisor III – Outbreak Response
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Technical Advisor leading Catholic Relief Services’ global health outbreak response strategy, technical assistance, and staff medical guidance. Supporting program quality, capacity strengthening, partnerships, and emergency health operations.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to global strategy development in health and outbreak response
- Provide technical leadership and advice for high-quality health and outbreak response programs
- Lead CRS responses to health outbreaks and serve as focal point for programs operating in outbreak contexts
- Provide strategic technical assistance to improve program quality and project outcomes
- Develop, test, and scale effective approaches integrating health with other sectors
- Provide operational health guidance to CRS staff responding to public health outbreaks, including health education, pre-travel health briefings, health capacity assessments, medical incident management plans, and medical clearance reviews
- Support 24/7 health emergency and/or medical evacuation calls when needed
- Lead agency-wide outbreak response strategies, standards, tools, and best practices
- Provide technical solutions and guidance for regional and country program teams
- Support proposal development, project design, staffing, and strategic growth opportunities
- Lead capacity strengthening through learning strategies, training, workshops, conferences, mentoring, and coaching
- Lead knowledge management and learning activities, including documenting and sharing successes, lessons learned, and evidence-based research
- Represent CRS in regional and global forums and build partnerships with organizations, donors, governments, and technical partners
- Develop health resources, preventive guidance, and education materials
- Support medical clearance reviews, risk mitigation plans, and direct staff medical needs
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in public health, epidemiology, nursing, medicine or a health-related field required
- Active clinical license
- Minimum of five years of clinical practice in acute or primary care
- Minimum of ten years of combined work experience in clinical and public health with progressive responsibilities
- Three years overseas in multiple regions as a technical advisor and/or program manager of a health or nutrition and/or multisectoral project with a health/nutrition component
- Experience developing and producing curricula, tools, and other products supporting nutrition interventions and programming
- Demonstrated experience transferring knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring, and formal and informal methods
- Experience with program monitoring and evaluation, including indicators, data collection tools and methodologies, data analysis, and data presentation
- Experience representing an organization at meetings with donors, government, international NGOs, and local partners
- Understanding of partnership principles
- Strong understanding and application of technical principles in health and outbreak response
- Knowledge of related disciplines for cross-sectoral approaches
- Track record contributing to successful public health business development and donor funding capture
- Ability to interpret evidence-based guidelines into staff health guidance and mitigation measures
- Proficiency in MS Office, web conferencing applications, information and budget management systems, and knowledge-sharing networks
- Strong relationship management, strategic, analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking skills
- Very strong written and oral communication, presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 30%
- Fluency in English required
- Ability to legally work where the position is performed and clear required pre-employment medical clearance
Benefits:
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Vision insurance
- Generous retirement savings plan
- Collaborative, mission-driven work culture
- CRS Code of Conduct and safeguarding-focused workplace
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