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Title: Senior Vaccine Supply and Country Readiness Technical Advisor
Location: Washington DC
GS: 14 Equivalency
Application Deadline: Open until filled
This is a limited term position.
In order to fully evaluate your eligibility, your resume must include relevant paid and non-paid experience showing dates held with month, year and hours worked per week for each position.
BACKGROUND:
Over 1.8 million people have died from the COVID-19 pandemic. It has further disrupted access to essential services including immunization and put tens of millions at risk of contracting vaccine-preventable diseases.
Efforts to develop, distribute and deliver COVID-19 vaccines are a top priority globally. According to the COVID-19 Global Response and Recovery Framework (GRRF), the U.S. government (USG) has committed to supporting the target of vaccinating 70% of the world population by the end of 2022. This requires an integrated effort of vaccine readiness and vaccine supply. The one does not work without the other. As part of the U.S. Government's commitment to global frontline efforts to get shots into arms and save lives around the world, USAID is leading the U.S. Government's Initiative for Global Vaccine Access (Global VAX), which will expand assistance and enhance international coordination to identify and rapidly overcome vaccine access barriers and save lives now, with a specific emphasis on scaling up vaccination support in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Office of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition serves as the Agency's technical and policy lead on maternal, newborn, and child health; immunization; nutrition; and environmental health, with a focus on preventing child and maternal deaths. The Child Health and Immunization Division provides technical and policy leadership, addressing the leading killers of children in the post-neonatal period, and on immunization and polio eradication. USAID's immunization activities include investments in Gavi to support Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, at the country, regional, and international levels. In June 2020, the USG committed $1.16 billion to Gavi over Fiscal Years 2020-2023, subject to Congressional appropriations, to support Gavi's 2021-2025 strategy (Gavi 5.0) to immunize 300 million more children and save up to 8 million lives. Additionally, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 the U.S. Congress appropriated $4 billion to USAID for the procurement and delivery of COVID-19 vaccine. With this additional contribution, the USG is the largest donor to Gavi.
Global supply forecasts estimate that the final months of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 will see a rising volume of COVID-19 vaccines rolling out in the 92 low- and lower-middle-income countries (LICs/LMICs). Based on initial estimates, these countries will have to increase their ability to administer COVID-19 vaccines (their "vaccine readiness") by three to six times what they are currently doing in order to deliver vaccines to those who need them the most.
The USAID Global Health Bureau's Vaccine Access and Delivery Initiative (VADI) is seeking a Senior Technical Advisor, Vaccine Supply and Country Readiness, to provide technical, policy and programmatic advice for COVID-19 vaccine introduction, rollout and scale-up in approximately 100 countries globally.
The Senior Technical Advisor will deliver exceptional, high-quality technical recommendations for USAID support to countries in the readiness and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines. The Senior Technical Advisor, Vaccine Supply and Country Readiness will collaborate with the Pillar I Lead and other Technical Advisors, the Emergency Operations Center Team, and Data Team to respond to urgent needs for the VADI.
Responsibilities
The Senior Technical Advisor will work on COVID-19 vaccine access and delivery and provide: 1) management, analysis and planning support to Pillar III (COVAX); and 2) Technical assistance to country-level and COVID-19 vaccination programs.
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