Overview
Provide strategic guidance, quality assurance, and coordination for new vaccine introduction and expansion activities in the Philippines.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic technical guidance for new vaccine introduction and expansion activities.
- Guide the development, updating, and implementation of national plans and operational guidelines.
- Lead the technical review and quality assurance of training materials, operational guidance documents, monitoring tools, and communication materials.
- Provide strategic guidance across key new vaccine introduction workstreams.
- Provide technical advice on readiness assessments, implementation monitoring, supportive supervision, and field monitoring activities.
- Guide the planning and implementation of post-introduction evaluations (PIE).
- Identify strategic, operational, and coordination bottlenecks and recommend corrective actions.
- Support high-level coordination with DOH program units, Centers for Health Development (CHDs), partners, advisory groups, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Review and provide technical inputs to reports, meeting summaries, presentations, briefing materials, donor/partner updates, and other program documentation.
- Provide technical guidance for implementation support staff, consultants, or working groups.
Required Experience
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in immunization programs, vaccine-preventable diseases, public health, or health systems strengthening at national and international level.
- Demonstrated experience providing technical oversight, strategic coordination, or quality assurance for immunization programs, new vaccine introduction, vaccine expansion, or large-scale immunization activities.
- Experience working with government counterparts, development partners, advisory bodies, and international organizations at national and/or subnational levels.
- Experience leading or reviewing the development of technical guidance, training materials, implementation plans, program monitoring tools, and technical reports.
- Desirable: Experience guiding field implementation, monitoring, evaluation, PIE, or similar assessment activities.
- Experience providing technical guidance to consultants, implementation teams, or multi-stakeholder working groups.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in medicine, public health, epidemiology, health systems, immunization, or related field.
