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- Position Name: Technical Advisor Emergency Health
- Organization Name: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
- Duty Location / City: Nairobi, Kenya
- Job Application Deadline: Not Specified, 2026
Job Overview:
- Emergency Health is a program area at the IRC that sits within the Emergency Unit (EmU), and concurrently feeds into IRC’s Health Technical Unit. With few predictable and effective health service providers in emergencies, there are major gaps in scale and scope to provide effective and timely health interventions in emergencies to crisis-affected populations. IRC intends to fill a niche in this field, branding itself as a fast, predictable, and effective provider of critical health and WASH (Water, Sanitation, Hygiene) services in emergencies, aligned with IRC’s 2024 Emergency Health Strategy, as well as the EMU Strategy Action Plan, IRC’s Health Strategy, and IRC’s Strategy 100.
- The Emergency Health Technical Advisor will work under the supervision and close mentorship of the Emergency Health Senior Technical Advisor to provide robust and efficient support for emergency health activities and interventions at the IRC across the emergency response continuum. They will spend a significant proportion of their time providing emergency health capacity strengthening, preparedness, readiness, and response support and delivering technical and strategic guidance during country-led emergency responses, as well as coordinating additional support across the Health Unit and other technical units and sectors.
- The Emergency Health Technical Advisor will also serve as a resource for the Emergency Unit’s deployed Emergency Health Emergency Response Team (ERT) Coordinators and Emergency Surge Team (EST) members, providing support on epidemiology and public health situational analysis and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL). This role will lead epidemiology and public health analysis for the Emergency Health Team. Finally, the incumbent will coordinate global initiatives in the emergency health sphere, including tools and strategic guidance development and refinement, advocacy, research, partnerships, business development, frameworks, and anticipatory guidance.
Location: This is a remote position open to candidates based in countries where IRC operates who have the right to work in their location.
Major Responsibilities:
- Provide epidemiologic context to emergency health crises by surveilling classified public health emergencies including outbreaks and communicating epidemiologic concerns across teams. Lead epidemiology support across the organization to advise on decision-making. Epidemiologic competencies for this position include being able to analyze, interpret, and discuss epidemiological measures of disease outbreaks and explain to non-technical collaborators in decision-making context.
- Support standardization of emergency health M&E systems/practices, epidemiological data sourcing and monitoring, systematization of data sharing, and centralized data analysis and knowledge management, including the use of epidemiologic databases and surveillance modalities (EWARN, GOARN (Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network), etc.) Advise on methodology that is complementary to M&E, specifically in emergency responses.
- Coordinate and maintain Health emergency response resources including but not limited to STEP, emergency rapid needs assessment tools, technical tools and libraries/dashboards with ERT support.
- Complete a biannual report of Health in Emergencies Learnings from both primary and available secondary data.
- Support health analysis across emergencies, including trend analyses across health programs in delivery, and as requested for regional and country programs engaged with emergency response and preparedness activities.
Job Requirements:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in clinical or public health; Master of Public Health, or equivalent, with background in Epidemiology.
Work Experience:
- At least 5 years of experience in health-related program development and implementation in humanitarian, post-conflict, or low-resource settings including at least 2 years in humanitarian settings). Experience in epidemiology, monitoring, evaluation, and learning management, technical tools development and data analysis is required.
Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
- Demonstrated expertise in health programming planning and implementation.
- Very strong expertise in data analysis and competence in epidemiology.
- Solid understanding of Infection Prevention and Control in emergency health contexts.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with local and national NGOs and government partners in emergency health programs.
- Effectiveness in bridging conceptual frameworks and practical guidance, ability to turn concepts and strategy into measurable and relevant action.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to facilitate effective collaboration within the organization externally with local partners.
- Ability to work with multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams and proven ability to develop positive relationships with global, local and remote team members, while providing and coordinating context-appropriate technical assistance.
- Excellence in organized oral and written communication and excellence in information technology
- Proven ability to deliver results under pressure and in a timely manner.
- Strong track record as a capable trainer able to effectively transfer technical knowledge and skills Demonstrated success in working with donors, partners, project design, and business proposal development.
Language Skills:
- Fluency in English and another IRC language (French, Arabic, or Spanish) strongly prioritized.
