Senior technical officer - case management (3)

General Summary

The technical case management officer will work closely with the response teams to provide technical and operational support for the delivery of safe, timely and high-quality case-management services during disease outbreaks and other public-health emergencies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Technical leadership and secretariat support

  • Provide technical leadership and oversight for EVD case management activities within assigned treatment centres, and supported health facilities.
  • Participate in regular case management meetings
  • Identify focal persons information sharing, capacity building and training and maintain an up-to-date list of contacts at the secretariat.
  • Facilitate engagement with isolation units focal persons to ensure that effective and efficient reporting is achieved 
  • Support pillar/ sub-pillar secretariat on information to support planning and budgeting for planned activities

  • Clinical care and IPC support

  • Support the implementation of standard operating procedures, clinical protocols, treatment algorithms
  • Support clinical assessment, supportive care, monitoring of vital signs, fluid and electrolyte management, nutrition, treatment of common complications, and management of co-existing conditions.
  • Participate in simulation exercises and readiness assessments to identify and address gaps.
  • Ensure that treatment areas are organized to minimize the risk of healthcare-associated transmission.
  • Work closely with IPC teams to ensure strict implementation of IPC measures within treatment units
  • Promote appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE), hand hygiene, environmental cleaning, disinfection, safe injection practices, waste management, and other IPC measures.
  • Support safe donning and doffing practices and ensure healthcare workers are appropriately trained and mentored.
  • Identify and promptly report breaches in IPC practices and support corrective actions.
  • Participate in healthcare worker exposure assessments and follow-up in collaboration with the IPC and occupational health teams.
  • Ensure that clinical practices are designed to reduce occupational and healthcare-associated transmission.

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    Capacity building  

  • Support coordination of capacity development activities to strengthen and
  • Support the revision/updating of training materials/tools based on revisions to treatment guidelines activities
  • When requested by MoH pillar leadership (and in compliance with all institutional policies) contribute to or draft technical reports, lessons learned, case studies on capacity building
  • Organize and conduct regular mentorships of the teams in consultation with the team leads 
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  • Data Sharing and reporting
  • Ensure accurate and regular reporting
  • Prepare regular case management reports and technical updates
  • Contribute to daily, weekly, and incident management team reporting.
  • Support the pillar to prepare and share data on the cases, hospital requirement and bed availability and treatment. 

Academic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery (MBChB), nursing from a chartered university
  • prior experience in the incident management response structure specifically case management sub pillars and must have skills in organizing and conducting adult learning, use of shared/collaborative workspaces and electronic platforms.

Person Specification

  • At least three years of relevant experience in clinical care, public health or humanitarian health programming, including a minimum of two years in outbreak preparedness or response.
  • Demonstrated experience in case management for epidemic-prone diseases such as Ebola, Marburg, mpox, cholera or COVID-19.
  • Practical experience in screening, triage, isolation, referral, treatment coordination, discharge and patient follow-up.
  • Experience working with the Ministry of Health, district health teams, health facilities and other emergency-response partners in Uganda.
  • Proven experience in training, mentoring and providing supportive supervision to frontline health workers.
  • Experience conducting health-facility readiness assessments and monitoring compliance with case-management and infection-prevention protocols.
  • Experience managing and analysing case-management data, including line lists, referral trackers, dashboards and technical reports.
  • Experience participating in rapid response teams, emergency coordination structures, case audits and after-action reviews.


More Details
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Full-time
6 Months
Deputy Head of Department
2026-10-06 11:03:39.000







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Background

The African Consortium for Clinical Evidence, Pharmacology and Translational Research (ACCEPT-Africa) is a multidisciplinary, multi-country research consortium under the Africa Pandemic Sciences Collaborative (EPSILON-1). Led by the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University, Uganda, ACCEPT-Africa brings together research institutions and investigators from Uganda, Tanzania (Kibong’oto Infectious Diseases Hospital), the Democratic Republic of Congo (Catholic University of Bukavu), South Africa (University of Cape Town), and Italy (University of Turin) to strengthen Africa's capacity to develop, evaluate, and deploy medical countermeasures for epidemic- and pandemic-prone diseases.

ACCEPT-Africa integrates expertise in early-phase clinical trials, clinical pharmacology, pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (PK/PD), implementation science, infectious diseases, laboratory sciences, regulatory science, and epidemic preparedness.

The consortium is guided by three strategic objectives:

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  3. Build sustainable capacity for early-phase clinical trials targeting priority pathogens.

To advance these objectives, ACCEPT-Africa invites applications from individual researchers for Targeted Research Awards addressing priority scientific and operational gaps relevant to medical countermeasure development and epidemic clinical research.

Purpose of the Call

The ACCEPT-Africa Targeted Research Awards will provide catalytic funding for focused, high-impact and implementation-oriented research projects that can generate preliminary evidence, address critical knowledge or methodological gaps, strengthen existing research platforms, and contribute to the development and evaluation of medical countermeasures for priority pathogens.

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The call is specifically intended to support research that can leverage existing ACCEPT-Africa platforms, cohorts, protocols, laboratory capabilities, partnerships and research infrastructure to achieve clearly defined outputs within the award period.

Applicants must submit a proposal addressing one of the three priority research areas below.

Priority Research Areas

Priority Area 1: Pharmacokinetics of drugs used for diseases of outbreak potential

Priority Area 2: Biomarkers and diagnostics for drug development which could be viral, immunological or other markers that can be used to assess treatment response or severity of highly infectious diseases of outbreak potential

Priority Area 3: Social and Behavioral Research on Epidemic Clinical Trials

Funding Available

ACCEPT-Africa intends to make three competitive research awards, subject to satisfactory scientific review and availability of funds.

Maximum Award

Each successful project may receive funding of up to US$15,000.

Applicants are expected to submit realistic and well-justified budgets directly linked to the proposed research activities and outputs.

Eligible costs may include research personnel support, laboratory reagents and consumables, sample processing and analysis, data collection, participant-related research costs, field activities, data management and analysis, stakeholder/community engagement directly related to the research, and dissemination of findings.

Major capital equipment and costs not directly attributable to delivery of the proposed research should generally not constitute a substantial proportion of the requested budget.

Application Requirements

Applicants should submit a concise application package containing:                  

  1. CV and personal statement (use the NIH template)
  2. 2 letters of recommendations (ACCEPT-Africa site PI and one proposed mentor)
  3. Proposal (download the template.docx)
  4. Budget (maximum US$15,000)

Key Timelines

Milestone

Date/Period

Call opens

September 2026

Application deadline

16th October 2026

Scientific and technical review

November 2026

Notification of successful applicants

Late November 2026

Anticipated project commencement

December 2026

Applications must be received by 16th October 2026. Late or substantially incomplete applications will not be considered.