Senior Clinical Lead

Localisation

Location: DRC based/home based for DRC nationals

Position Type: Consultancy (40 hours per week)

Length of contract: 3 months with possibility of extension

Compensation: Rates competitive for DRC

Start Date : ASAP

Background

Global Outbreak Response Support (GORS) delivered by Global Emergency Group, Inc. (GEG), under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD), provides rapid activation, surge response, and transition support enabling countries to detect, contain, and recover from infectious disease outbreaks. GEG leads GORS as the prime recipient, building on its ongoing role as Field Programs Support lead for Team Credence on the Humanitarian Assistance Support Contract (HASC). Founded in 2007, GEG delivers GORS through a global network of regional response hubs, a pre-vetted surge roster, and embedded in-country teams that mobilize within hours of an authorized outbreak response.

The Senior Clinical Lead is responsible for the clinical outbreak response domain with GEG programming and operations relating to GORS and works within the host-government-led incident-management structure.

The Senior Clinical Lead reports operationally to the Senior Technical Director and during activation to the Response Team Leader.

Scope of Work

Position Description

The Senior Clinical Lead will provide senior clinical leadership for safe, effective and context-appropriate case management, infection prevention and control, patient referral pathways, clinical workforce protection and clinical-system readiness during infectious-disease outbreaks.

The Senior Clinical Lead will:

Maintain adaptable clinical readiness standards, toolkits, referral-pathway templates, IPC checklists and clinical-quality indicators.

Participate in roster validation, simulations, technical reviews and pre-deployment briefings.

Conduct or lead rapid clinical and facility-readiness assessments within the first 72 hours of arrival or remote activation.

Advise national authorities and facilities on clinical case definitions, triage, patient flow, isolation, referral, case management, discharge and follow-up.

Lead or support IPC assessment and improvement, including occupational health, PPE use, exposure management and healthcare-worker safety....