Entomology Technical Specialist (1 Post) - Africa University

Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting to the Chief of Party (COP), the Technical Specialist will be responsible, among other things, for the following duties:
• Providing technical leadership of AU/ZENTO project’s entomological surveillance activities in the country in collaboration with the NMCP.
• Coordinating the project’s key entomological monitoring activities and guide country-level vector surveillance decisions.
• Preparing project annual entomological monitoring plan and review the content of communication materials for technical accuracy.
• Oversight of entomological operations and managing field staff assigned to longitudinal vector surveillance sentinel sites.
• Leading in the monitoring of vector density and behaviour in elimination and pre-elimination districts, as well as in pre-and post-deployment of vector control interventions using WHO standard mosquito sampling methods.
• Providing technical oversight of vector susceptibility monitoring to currently used and candidate insecticides.
• Leading the development and revision of standard operating procedures and checklists for mosquito collection techniques.
• Serving on the vector control technical working group at national level.
• Training MoHCC EHPs on field entomological techniques using the WHO, CDC and PMI approved guidelines, protocols and techniques.
• Preparing semi-annual and annual reports of vector surveillance and insecticide resistance.
• Coordinating vector control Operational Research activities.
• Preparing and presenting abstracts from programme findings at international vector control and scientific conferences.
• Publication of results from the vector surveillance activities and operational research activities in peer-reviewed journals.