Country Technical Officer – Wildlife, Livestock, Epidemiology, Behavior Change and Gender Strategy (WLE)

Project description:

STOP Spillover is a USAID-funded project to anticipate and address threats posed by the emerging zoonotic diseases that pose the greatest risk of jumping from animals to humans. Tufts University, together with an international consortium of nine core partners that include Southeast Asia One Health University Network (SEAOHUN), icddr,b and Africa One Health University Network (AFROHUN) and six core sub-award partners are working collaboratively utilizing diverse capabilities among consortium members and stakeholders to implement the STOP project in five countries in Africa and five countries in Asia over the next five years.

STOP Spillover will focus on strengthening national capacity in a number of targeted countries to 1) understand the factors that contribute to the risk of spillover of pathogens from wildlife to humans; 2) develop, assess, and implement early risk-reduction interventions that will reduce the spillover and spread of these threats; and, 3) recognize and respond rapidly to zoonotic spillover events.

STOP Spillover’s approach centers around leveraging global-level Resource Hubs, made up of consortium partner staff and key short term technical advisors and consultants, to provide expertise, technical assistance, and support to a Country Team. The Country Team, composed of a full-time Country Team Lead and four supporting members (three part-time members and one full-time), will drive implementation of the project, ensuring that project activities are responsive and contextualized to the needs of Vietnam.

Position description:

Wildlife, Livestock, Epidemiology, Behavior Change and Gender Strategy (WLE) Country Team Member (full-time)

WLE Hub focuses on wildlife sciences; livestock production; disease ecology; social and behavior change; epidemiology and field methods; participatory epidemiology; gender studies; infectious disease ecology.

For more detail of recruitment and application procedure, please check the TOR and the Applicant Checklist attached.