Position Title: Senior Technical Officer, Surveillance
Reports To: Team Lead
Location: Maputo
Project: EpiC – Mozambique
About FHI 360
FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in a long way by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, economic development, civil society, gender, youth, research and technology — creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today’s interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 70 countries and all U.S. states and territories. We are currently seeking qualified candidates for the position of: Senior Technical Officer, Surveillance
Description
Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) is an FHI 360 implemented global health initiative project funded by United States Government (U.S.G) for the period of 2019–2027. FHI 360 is seeking applications from qualified individuals for the Senior Surveillance Specialist position for the EpiC Mozambique Global Health Security (GHS) project focused on strengthening outbreak preparedness and response, enhancing laboratory and detection capabilities while supporting Mozambique’s capacity at the national and sub-national level for both human and animal laboratory networks, developing and enhancing surveillance systems and strengthen the International Health capacities at POEs to prevent, detect and respond to outbreaks for emerging and re-merging diseases, and strengthening the Public Health Emergency Operation Center (PHEOC) at the national and sub-national levels to rapidly detect and respond to public health threats.
Job Summary
A key component of this effort is enhancing the national disease surveillance system, including both indicator- and event-based surveillance, to enable early detection, reporting, and response to priority health threats. Strengthened surveillance will directly support life-saving interventions, inform real-time public health decision-making, and facilitate timely, accurate, and targeted risk communication with at-risk populations and the public during public health emergencies. The Senior Technical Officer – Surveillance will contribute to building a more resilient and responsive surveillance infrastructure by supporting data systems, multisectoral coordination, and workforce capacity aligned with Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) priorities and national strategies.
Accountabilities
Technical Requirements:
- Supports technical aspects of EpiC GHS Mozambique in Surveillance, including staff and partner capacity building.
- Collaborates with national and subnational health authorities, regional institutions, NGOs, and international partners to design, implement, and evaluate surveillance system strengthening activities that support early detection and rapid response to public health emergencies, particularly zoonotic and epidemic-prone diseases.
- Serves as the in-country focal point for surveillance-related components of the EpiC GHS portfolio, leading the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of outbreak-focused surveillance activities aligned with the National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) and Joint External Evaluation (JEE) recommendations.
- Provides technical assistance and mentoring to national counterparts and implementing partners to enhance surveillance readiness and ensure integration of real-time data collection, event-based surveillance (EBS), and community-based surveillance (CBS) into national systems.
- Identifies operational and technical bottlenecks in disease surveillance, and develops and implements practical, context-appropriate solutions to improve timely reporting and response to priority health threats.
- Supports the review, adaptation, and digitization of existing surveillance tools and SOPs, ensuring alignment with International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) and GHSA frameworks.
- Provides technical guidance to strengthen national and regional capacity to manage Health Management Information Systems (HMIS), conduct routine and emergency data analysis, and produce timely, actionable surveillance bulletins, outbreak summaries, and visualizations to inform rapid decision-making.
- Represents the EpiC project in national technical working groups and coordination platforms related to disease surveillance, outbreak response, and One Health, promoting multisectoral engagement and data-sharing.
- Contributes to the preparation of project reports, technical briefs, success stories, and donor-required documentation, highlighting results, challenges, and lessons learned from surveillance strengthening activities.
- Supports the integration of surveillance efforts with risk communication, diagnostics, and emergency response functions to ensure a coordinated and life-saving outbreak response approach.
Applied Knowledge & Skills
- Familiarity with infections disease surveillance concepts and ability to rapidly learn and apply technical essentials.
- Experience supporting decision-makers to use and intepret surveillance or program data in real-world settings.
- Awareness of the mechanisms and strategies under the Global Health Security Agenda and ability to contextualize them for local use.
- Comfort with digitial health or data platforms (DHIS2 or similar0 and ability to guide others in using them.Has sensitivity to cultural diversity and understanding of the political, contextual, and ethical issues in assigned areas.
- Must be able to read, write, and speak fluent English and Portuguese.
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills.
- Excellent and demonstrated project management skills.
- Ability to influence and collaborate with others.
- Demonstrated proficiency with using Microsoft Office Suite required.
- Ability to analyze and interpret data, identify errors, and prepare reports.
- Ability to solve problems and implement corrective action as needed.
Problem Solving & Impact
- Works on problems of moderate to complex scope that require review of various factors.
- Exercises good judgment with selecting methods and techniques to determine appropriate action.
- Decisions may cause delays and affect a work unit or area within a department.
- Identifies and raises issues to senior technical staff
- Networks with key internal and external personnel.
- Decision may cause delays or failure to achieve results that impact departmental goals.
Supervision Given/Received
- Reports to EpiC GHS Team Leader.
Education
- Master’s Degree or its International Equivalent in Health, Research, Public Health, Data Science, Education, or a Related Field.
- Project Management (PM) Certification preferred.
Experience
- Minimum of 6+ years of relevant experience in the following:
- Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private organization.
- Experience managing or supporting capacity-strengthening or institutional change initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience implementing field-based surveillance methodology including analysis of epidemiologic investigation data
- Demonstrated experience supporting government staff and/ or organizations to interpret, analyze and apply data for decision-making.
- Proven effectiveness in deciding and providing ongoing coaching, mentoring or technical assistance that lead to measurable improvements in how individuals or institutions use data.
- Demonstrated report writing and presentation skills
- Experience working effectively with government counterparts at national and regional levels.
- Managing data analysis and technical assistance experience.
- Proven interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a team.
- Experience collaborating on projects and coordinating efforts with other program staff, other international health agencies, and private and non-profit organizations
- Knowledge and previous work experience with joint external evaluations (JEE) and improvement strategies is a plus.
The last day of receiving applications is 28 November, 2025
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