Community-Based Surveillance Assistant – Ebola Response

Supports Ebola community-based surveillance in DRC by supervising community relays, verifying and reporting alerts, investigating suspected cases, maintaining field data and promoting hygiene measures around displacement sites, border points and mobility corridors.

Department: Migration Health Department

• Apply simplified case definitions to identify priority disease symptoms with particular attention to Ebola
• Identify unusual events or unexplained deaths and report them to surveillance teams
• Verify alerts against case definitions before escalation
• Supervise community relays conducting active case searches
• Support preliminary field investigations and document suspected-case circumstances
• Report suspected cases in real time to nurses or local health authorities
• Centralise and transmit community surveillance data and periodic reports promptly
• Promote hygiene and outbreak-containment practices in affected communities

• University or technical diploma in management, administration or a related field with at least two years of relevant experience
• At least two years of experience in a similar field-assistant or logistics role
• Good spoken and written French
• Availability to travel to border points, control points and displacement sites in assigned health zones

• Field-based consultancy supporting the Ebola response in DRC
• Consultants must maintain non-occupational medical insurance and provide proof before starting
• Appointment is subject to funding confirmation