EPI and Emergency Manager is Responsible for leading, coordinating, and overseeing the implementation of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) and emergency health response activities across BPHS-supported health facilities. The EPI and Emergency Manager ensures the effective delivery of routine immunization services, disease surveillance, outbreak preparedness and response, cold chain management, and emergency health interventions in accordance with Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) guidelines, donor requirements, and organizational policies. The role also provides technical leadership, supervises field teams, strengthens staff capacity, monitors program performance, and coordinates with government authorities and partners to ensure timely and high-quality immunization and emergency health services.
Duties & Responsibilities:
· Provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of EPI and emergency activities across all projects.
· Ensure accurate vaccine needs, effective cold-chain management, vaccine accountability, and timely distribution of vaccines, injection supplies, and related logistics to project requirement.
· Monitor EPI and emergency performance indicators, including immunization coverage, drop-out rates, vaccine utilization, disease surveillance, outbreak trends, and data quality, and implement corrective actions as required.
· Ensure the availability and proper implementation of national MoPH policies, strategies, guidelines, protocols, and standard operating procedures related to EPI, communicable disease surveillance, prevention, and outbreak response within BPHS projects.
· Strengthen the implementation of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response, Early Warning Alert and Response System, and other national disease surveillance systems to ensure timely reporting and response.
· Review and analyze EPI and CDC program reports on a regular basis and provide technical feedback and recommendations to provincial teams to improve program performance and service quality.
· Assess EPI supervision reports, disease surveillance reports, outbreak investigation reports, and monitoring findings, ensuring timely development and follow-up of corrective action plans.
· Ensure standardized implementation of routine immunization, outreach, mobile services, supplementary immunization activities, National Immunization Days (NIDs), and communicable disease control interventions across all operational areas.
· Coordinate preparedness, investigation, and response to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable and other communicable diseases in collaboration with MoPH and relevant partners.
· Conduct regular supportive supervision visits to provincial offices and health facilities to ensure compliance with BPHS standards, national EPI and CDC guidelines, and quality service delivery.
· Lead capacity-building initiatives, including training, mentoring, and on-the-job coaching for EPI, surveillance, laboratory focal persons, and other relevant technical staff.
· Ensure the availability of qualified personnel, vaccines, cold-chain equipment, surveillance tools, guidelines, reporting forms, and IEC/BCC materials required for effective implementation of EPI and CDC activities.
· Strengthen coordination and collaboration with MoPH, UNICEF, and other stakeholders to improve immunization coverage, disease surveillance, outbreak preparedness, and communicable disease control.
· Ensure timely and accurate reporting of EPI and CDC activities through HMIS, DHIS2 and other reportable system and national reporting platforms.
· Ensure full compliance with organizational safeguarding, child protection, and PSEA policies, and report any concerns in accordance with established procedures.
· Uphold high standards of professionalism, confidentiality, integrity, and ethical conduct in the performance of all duties.
