Credence
Humanitarian Health Advisor, Ebola Response Consultants(1099) Position
United States
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About the role
- Credence has an immediate need for the Humanitarian Health Advisor, Ebola Response Consultant who will serve as part of the Disaster Humanitarian and Response (DHR) Bureau's Technical Quality and Assurance (TQA) Office, within the Health Unit.
- They will be responsible for working on DHR's response to the current Ebola disease outbreak in West/Central Africa.
- The Advisor will receive day-to-day guidance from the Senior Health Advisor.
Responsibilities
- Advise the Response Lead on appropriate strategies on humanitarian response modalities that best enable Ebola outbreak response activities considering lessons learned from past Ebola outbreaks.
- Liaise directly with technical lead and pillar leads of the response at post, and in DC.
- Advise the DHR Programs Lead on programming.
- With 1,700+ team members, 1,500+ AI/data experts, and 100+ prime contracts, we deliver at scale and with purpose.
- Position Summary The Humanitarian Assistance Support Contract (HASC) brings together exceptional institutional support experience, technical leadership, and an unmatched commitment to US missions.
- HASC supports the U.S. Department of State's (DOS) humanitarian assistance, disaster response, and foreign assistance across multiple bureaus.
- Team Credence, through the HASC, delivers operational and administrative support to provide and coordinate humanitarian assistance and maintain 24/7 response capability.
Requirements
- This position requires the ability to deploy for international travel assignments for at least one month at a time, as well as occasional domestic travel to Washington, DC.
- Develop sector strategies, guidance, and recommendations (in coordination with other sectors when required) for disaster and humanitarian response
Benefits
- Our AI, cloud, cyber, and modernization solutions save agencies thousands of hours, safeguard national security, and strengthen health and humanitarian missions worldwide.
- S/he will support DHR's approach to emergency health activities within the team and assist in developing response strategies and provide technical support to humanitarian health programming in the Department of State.
- Engage with the national health cluster and sub-clusters to understand humanitarian gaps, challenges and response plans; attend regular cluster meetings.
- Evaluate and document health programming gaps and assess the performance of current DHR awards in responding to these gaps.
- Coordinate with humanitarian partners to understand humanitarian gaps and challenges in light of the Ebola response and understand the integration of health humanitarian actions and Ebola response actions.
- Serve as a USG humanitarian health sector resource person, assist in strategy development and provide expert technical and organizational leadership in sectoral activity as part of Ebola Response.
- Advise and support technical and strategic thinking for health activities, interventions, and recommendation discussions.
- Advise and support discussions on emergency health activities with NGO partners and other Department of State staff working in humanitarian health.
Visa & Work Authorization
- US citizenship with an Active Secret Clearance required
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