IRC EPI Officer Job Vacancy in Ethiopia 2026
Apply Now IRC EPI Officer Job Vacancy in Ethiopia 2026 – IRC is inviting qualified and interested candidates to apply for the position of EPI Officer. This vacancy is open for applicants who meet the required qualifications and experience. Interested job seekers are encouraged to apply before the deadline.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world’s largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities.
IRC EPI Officer Job Vacancy
- Job Title: EPI Officer
- Company: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Job Location: Assosa, Ethiopia
- Posted Date: February 19, 2026
- Application Deadline: February 27, 2026
- Official Website: www.rescue.org
Major Responsibilities
- Revitalize Community volunteers (CVs) and village health leaders (VHLs) on outreach immunization. CVs and VHLs play a vital role in raising awareness among populations living in hard-to-reach areas about the importance of immunization and the prevention of childhood diseases, particularly those prone to outbreaks.
- Sensitize community leaders and clan leaders: Engaging community and clan leaders in immunization sensitization builds trust, addresses cultural concerns, and mobilizes communities leading to increased vaccine acceptance, improved outreach participation, and better access to immunization services in remote areas.
- Provide logistic support to strengthen outreach immunization. It ensures reliable transportation for health teams to reach remote and underserved areas, enabling consistent delivery of vaccines, helps to maintain the cold chain, facilitates mobile sessions, and improves overall coverage and timeliness of immunization services.
- Support introduction new vaccines (Hep-birth dose, malarial, MCV-5 dose switches): Supporting new vaccines like Hep-B birth dose, malaria, and MCV-5 switch enhances disease prevention, strengthens immunization systems, improves child survival, and aligns with global health goals to protect vulnerable populations effectively
- Facilitating Outreach and Mobile vaccination sessions: These efforts improve access, prevent disease outbreaks, and strengthen community immunity and child survival. This activity includes identifying vaccination sites (i.e., outreach and mobile), organizing vaccination teams, arranging transportation, delivering vaccines and cold chain supplies, community mobilization, conducting vaccination sessions, performing spot checks, providing additional health services, and compiling and reporting the number of children vaccinated.
- Facilitating house-to-house headcount of eligible, ZD, and Under-UV children using Community Volunteers (CVs) and HEWs for hard-to-reach kebeles: The activity includes mapping households and linking eligible children to nearby health facilities for vaccination.
- Print and provide the necessary formats for all required formats. This activity supports accurate data collection and documentation, enabling effective tracking and follow-up of missed children during immunization sessions.
- Support Immunization performance review and QA at Woreda. This activity helps identify service delivery gaps, improve data-driven planning, and strengthen accountability.
- Conduct spot checks during fixed and outreach vaccination sessions: frequent spot checks during fixed and outreach vaccination sessions to ensure service quality, verify cold chain and documentation, identify gaps, and provide on-the-spot mentoring to improve immunization performance.
- Participate in the local outbreak response, One Health Task Force coordination, and after-action review (AAR) meeting: This activity helps strengthen multisectoral collaboration, improve outbreak preparedness, assess response effectiveness, and identify lessons for future public health emergencies.
- Conduct spot checks during polio/Measle campaigns to ensure service quality, verify cold chain management and documentation—particularly Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) identify gaps, and provide on-the-spot mentoring to improve immunization delivery.
- Mobilizing CVs/VHLs for enhance community awareness, promotes risk communication, increases vaccine uptake, addresses misinformation, and ensures timely mobilization of caregivers especially in hard-to-reach or high-risk areas.
- Support disease investigation activities through logistics and finance at woreda: This includes logistical support for disease investigation, and transportation of samples for timely detection and response.
- Support for AFP and measles sample collection and transportation with financial and logistics. This activity ensures timely detection and confirmation of cases, maintains surveillance sensitivity, supports rapid outbreak response, and helps monitor virus circulation and immunization program effectiveness.
- Represent, IRC in woreda based review meeting, workshop and taskforce meeting, and share the action points to the health and nutrition manager.
- Prepper immunization, MCH and community-based surveillance data, and submit through DHIS2 in monthly based, for Health and nutrition manager on time review.
- Analyze monthly and quarterly report submitted by woreda health officers for data quality and presentation of data for use.
- Responsibility for any assignments assigned by the immediate supervisor.
Job Requirements
Educational Requirements
- BSc/MPH public, health officer, nursing with direct experience in immunization, surveillance and MCH.
Preferred Experience and Skills
- Minimum experience of 2 years for BSc degree or 1 year for MPH/MSC Degree holders.
- Minimum two years’ experience in INGO.
- Two years’ experience in directly leading/supervising immunization and surveillance projects.
- Has Knowledge of national health system.
- Basic managerial and supervisory skills in the NGO context.
- Experience in project management and the ability to plan, coordinate, and supervise the implementation of different projects.
- Experience in coordinating and facilitating workshops, meetings, and training.
- Shown experience in staff management, budget management, and creating effective teams.
- Excellent coordination and representation skills with different partners.
- Excellent technical and report writing skills and MS offices (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, and words).
- Ability to work under pressure and travel frequently to project sites.
- Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of Assosa context and working in the region is an advantage.
Language Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English, Amharic, and ability to speak local language is advantageous.
How to Apply
Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their resume to https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers before February 27, 2026. For more details CLICK HERE.
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