Technical Advisor III – Outbreak Response

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Catholic Relief Services

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1943

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Logistics

Catholic Relief Services is a global humanitarian organization that eases the suffering of and provides development assistance to people in need in over 100 countries. As the official international relief organization of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, CRS focuses on emergency response, health, agriculture, education, and justice and peacebuilding. Their work is guided by Catholic values and the organization aims to serve the poor and vulnerable, regardless of race, religion, or nationality.

📋 Description

• Contribute to global strategy development in health and outbreak response • Provide technical leadership and advice for high-quality health and outbreak response programs • Lead CRS responses to health outbreaks and serve as focal point for programs operating in outbreak contexts • Provide strategic technical assistance to improve program quality and project outcomes • Develop, test, and scale effective approaches integrating health with other sectors • Provide operational health guidance to CRS staff responding to public health outbreaks, including health education, pre-travel health briefings, health capacity assessments, medical incident management plans, and medical clearance reviews • Support 24/7 health emergency and/or medical evacuation calls when needed • Lead agency-wide outbreak response strategies, standards, tools, and best practices • Provide technical solutions and guidance for regional and country program teams • Support proposal development, project design, staffing, and strategic growth opportunities • Lead capacity strengthening through learning strategies, training, workshops, conferences, mentoring, and coaching • Lead knowledge management and learning activities, including documenting and sharing successes, lessons learned, and evidence-based research • Represent CRS in regional and global forums and build partnerships with organizations, donors, governments, and technical partners • Develop health resources, preventive guidance, and education materials • Support medical clearance reviews, risk mitigation plans, and direct staff medical needs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in public health, epidemiology, nursing, medicine or a health-related field required • Active clinical license • Minimum of five years of clinical practice in acute or primary care • Minimum of ten years of combined work experience in clinical and public health with progressive responsibilities • Three years overseas in multiple regions as a technical advisor and/or program manager of a health or nutrition and/or multisectoral project with a health/nutrition component • Experience developing and producing curricula, tools, and other products supporting nutrition interventions and programming • Demonstrated experience transferring knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring, and formal and informal methods • Experience with program monitoring and evaluation, including indicators, data collection tools and methodologies, data analysis, and data presentation • Experience representing an organization at meetings with donors, government, international NGOs, and local partners • Understanding of partnership principles • Strong understanding and application of technical principles in health and outbreak response • Knowledge of related disciplines for cross-sectoral approaches • Track record contributing to successful public health business development and donor funding capture • Ability to interpret evidence-based guidelines into staff health guidance and mitigation measures • Proficiency in MS Office, web conferencing applications, information and budget management systems, and knowledge-sharing networks • Strong relationship management, strategic, analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking skills • Very strong written and oral communication, presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills • Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% • Fluency in English required • Ability to legally work where the position is performed and clear required pre-employment medical clearance

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Life insurance • Vision insurance • Generous retirement savings plan • Collaborative, mission-driven work culture • CRS Code of Conduct and safeguarding-focused workplace