Field Epidemiology Specialist Consultant

Specific Work:
The FES will work closely with CDC Vietnam, the Senior Technical Advisor and FETP staff at FETP training centers to successfully implement activities. The activities for which the contractor will be responsible include but are not limited to the following:
Teaching and mentoring
- Teach at FETP training courses for FETP fellows and other types of capacity building activities for mentors.
- Mentor fellows who attend FETP short courses, intermediate courses and/or advanced 12 months capstone courses. This includes coaching the fellows to improve their field assignments; review and rate their reports, presentations, and abstracts.
Application of field epidemiology
- Support FETP fellows, FETP office and regional institute to implement field activities and/or outbreak investigations which can range from concept note and protocol development, data collection tools, field surveys, data management and analysis and writing reports.
Other technical support and activities
- Assist monitoring and quality improvement of FETP training courses.
- In collaboration with FETP training centers, provide mentorship support to the FETP intermediate group project, which includes developing concept notes, protocols, data collection tools, and field surveys; management and analysis of data; and writing reports.
- Teach at FETP trainings for FETP officers and other capacity-building activities for mentors.
- Work closely with the CDC Vietnam Workforce Development Team Lead to prepare for the implementation of the FETP training course. This includes finalizing training materials, curriculum, and course guidelines.
- Support implementation, data quality improvement and use of the FETP information systems, which are Moodle and Redcap, that hold data of FETP training courses, fellows, and mentors.
- Support FETP network strengthening activities such as literature reviews, seminars on emerging public health issues, and scientific conferences.
- Identify needs and capacity development plan for FETP mentors.
- Other duties as requested.
The above tasks will be scheduled in a specific work-plan that will be developed together with CDC partners and in accordance with the evolution of the FETP over time.
TIMELINE
July 2024 – September 2024.
Annual contract with possible extension depending on work performance and funding availability.

Salary and bonus suitable to ability

English, Epidemiology, Public Health Surveillance, Teaching, Training Program