STOPS Project description:
The USAID STOP Spillover project provides a critical opportunity to enhance global understanding of the complex drivers of viral spillover and to augment sustainable national capacities in surveillance, risk analysis, and behavior change. The project supports up to ten prioritized countries across Africa and Asia to gain critical knowledge about their Spillover Ecosystems, to refine and use that knowledge effectively, efficiently, and sustainably to reduce the risk of zoonotic viral spillover and spread. This is a five-year project from October 2020 to September 2025.
STOP Spillover is a USAID-funded project to anticipate and address threats posed by the emerging zoonotic diseases that pose the greatest risk of jumping from animals to humans. Tufts University, together with an international consortium of nine core partners that include Southeast Asia One Health University network (SEAOHUN), icddr,b-Bangladesh and Africa One Health University network (AFROHUN) and partners are working collaboratively utilizing diverse capabilities among consortium members and stakeholders to implement the STOP project in five countries in Africa and up to five countries in Asia over the next four years.
The consortium will support countries to build their capacity to assess, communicate and decrease risk of viral spillover and spread of zoonotic disease. The consortium will work with USAID to develop and institutionalize innovative, country-specific, and sustainable approaches so they are well-prepared to stop viral spillover from animals to humans and reduce amplification and spread of the virus among humans. STOP Spillover will focus on strengthening national capacity in a number of targeted countries to 1) understand the factors that contribute to the risk of spillover of pathogens from wildlife to humans; 2) develop, assess, and implement early risk- reduction interventions that will reduce the spillover and spread of these threats; and, 3) recognize and respond rapidly to zoonotic spillover events.
Duty station: Cambodia One Health University Network (CAMBOHUN) National Coordinating Office at Prek Leap National Institute of Agriculture
Accountable to: Country Team Lead
Program title: USAID Strategy to Prevent (STOP) Spillover
Contract type: Minimum commitment at 30% and up to full time.
Duration: Renewed yearly based on performance, and availability of funds
Job purpose:
Risk Analysis and Communication (RAC) Country Team Member focuses on risk analysis; risk assessment; risk characterization; risk communication; risk management; community risk-based surveillance under STOPS project.
Duration of the Work:
The initial contract is for one year and will be extended based on funding availability and performance.
Duty station: Cambodia One Health University Network (CAMBOHUN) National Coordinating Office at Prek Leap National Institute of Agriculture
Accountable to: Country Team Lead
Program title: USAID Strategy to Prevent (STOP) Spillover
Contract type: Minimum commitment at 30% and up to full time
Job purpose:
Surveillance, Modelling and Outcome Monitoring (SMM) Country Team Member focuses on infectious disease/zoonotic disease surveillance; sampling and monitoring; wastewater surveillance; infectious disease modelling and mapping; community-based surveillance; applied epidemiology; biomedical research; diagnostics; laboratory capacity building.
Duration of the Work:
The initial contract is for one year and will be extended based on funding availability and performance.
Duty station: Cambodia One Health University Network (CAMBOHUN) National Coordinating Office at Prek Leap National Institute of Agriculture
Accountable to: Country Team Lead
Program title: USAID Strategy to Prevent (STOP) Spillover
Contract type: Minimum commitment at 30% and up to full time.
Duration: Renewed yearly based on performance, and availability of funds
Job purpose:
Wildlife, Livestock, Epidemiology, Behavior Change and Gender Strategy (WLE) Country Team Member focuses on wildlife sciences; livestock production; disease ecology; social and behavior change; epidemiology and field methods; participatory epidemiology; gender studies; infectious disease ecology.
Duration of the Work:
The initial contract is for one year and will be extended based on funding availability and performance.
Duty station: Cambodia One Health University Network (CAMBOHUN) National Coordinating Office at Prek Leap National Institute of Agriculture
Accountable to: Country Team Lead
Program title: USAID Strategy to Prevent (STOP) Spillover
Contract type: Minimum commitment at 30% and up to full time
Duration: Renewed yearly based on performance, and availability of funds
Job purpose:
Food, Water, Air, Climate, Livelihoods & Economics, Policy & Security (FAW) Country Team Member focuses on risk reduction related to food and drivers of food choice, and spillover events caused by food systems, food security, markets and trade, natural resource management, climate change, conflict, livelihoods, policy and the overall enabling environment.
Duration of the Work:
The initial contract is for one year and will be extended based on funding availability and performance.
Disclaimers:
How to apply:
Interested candidates are invited to send an application letter with current and expected salary, a resume or curriculum vitae in PDF format with names of 3 referees referencing “Country Technical Officer – Risk Analysis and Communication (RAC)”, “Country Technical Officer – Wildlife, Livestock, Epidemiology, Behavior Change and Gender Strategy (WLE)”, “Country Technical Officer – Surveillance, Modelling and Outcome Monitoring (SMM)”, “Country Technical Officer – Food, Water, Air, Climate, Livelihoods & Economics,Policy & Security (FAW)” as the subject to Email provided in the contact detail. Application will be reviewed on a rolling basis until filled with the first round of reviews on 1st week of February 2022. The candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible before the review date.