Vacancy with PATH Nigeria
PATH Recruitment: Infectious Disease Surveillance Pilot Field Officer
PATH is recruiting an entry-level Consultant: Infectious Disease Surveillance Pilot Field Officer under its Epidemic Preparedness and Response, Global Health Programs team.
📌 Job Details
- Position: Consultant: Infectious Disease Surveillance Pilot Field Officer
- Project: STRIDES — Strengthening Infectious Disease Detection Systems
- Job ID: JR2732
- Location: Adamawa, Enugu, Kano or Lagos
- Job Type: Full-time consultancy
- Deadline: 27 August 2026
- Daily Rate: Applicants must state their proposed daily rate in the application.
🦠 About the Role
The consultant will support infectious disease surveillance and preparedness across human, animal and environmental health sectors.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting event-based and community-based surveillance
- Assisting with early-warning systems for infectious diseases
- Supporting EBS, CBS, IDSR and zoonotic-disease training
- Helping review SOPs, guidelines and job aids
- Supporting mentorship of health workers
- Assisting with surveillance data entry, validation and basic analysis
- Mapping surveillance systems, stakeholders and data flows
- Preparing field reports, meeting minutes, action trackers and training reports
- Working with government counterparts and other stakeholders at state and local levels
🎓 Requirements
Education
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as:
- Public Health
- Nursing
- Medicine
- Epidemiology
- Health Information Systems
- Biology
- Microbiology
- Zoology
- Veterinary Science
- Environmental Health
Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook is required.
Experience
- At least 5 years of relevant experience, with internships, volunteer work and fellowships counting toward this requirement.
- Experience in infectious disease surveillance, disease reporting, environmental/animal health surveillance, One Health coordination or public-health data management.
- Documentation, data entry or health/research reporting experience is desirable.
⭐ Added Advantages
- Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) or equivalent epidemiology training
- Familiarity with IDSR, NADIS, event-based surveillance (EBS) or community-based surveillance (CBS)
- Experience working with government stakeholders
💻 Other Requirements
- Strong English communication skills
- Good organisational and time-management abilities
- Ability to work collaboratively
- Proficiency with digital data-collection/reporting tools
- Willingness to travel within the assigned state
- Legal authorization to work in Nigeria
- Must be based in or willing to relocate to Adamawa, Enugu, Kano or Lagos
Important: This is particularly relevant for candidates with a public-health, epidemiology, health-information, laboratory, environmental-health, veterinary or One Health background.
Deadline: 27 August 2026.
