Consultant, Enhancing Preparedness and Response to Measles, Rubella, and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Outbreaks in Countries of the Americas Region

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for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use only sections that have real content. No job title heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Sections present: - Organizational Context (maybe "About the role"? Actually "Organizational Context" is description of IFRC. Could be "About the role" or "About the organization". The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to map content to these headings. We have: Organizational Context: description of IFRC, purpose, etc. Could be "About the role" or maybe "About the organization". Since they said use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should use those exact headings if content exists. We have "Job Purpose": that could be "About the role". We'll put that under

About the role

. We have "Desired outcomes of the Regional Strategy for Measles and Rubella Elimination": that's more details about role; could be part of About the role or Responsibilities. Probably part of About the role. We have "Job Duties And Responsibilities": that is Responsibilities. We have "Location": maybe not a standard heading; could be omitted or placed in a paragraph under About the role? But we should not create new headings not listed. So we can include location info in a

under About the role or Responsibilities? Probably under About the role. We have "Support to be provided to the consultant": maybe Benefits? Not exactly benefits but support. Could be placed under Benefits? But Benefits heading is for benefits like salary, etc. Not present. We have no explicit Pay or Benefits info. So we should not create Pay/Benefits/Schedule sections unless posting actually states them. There is mention of "Time allocation 40 hours per week over a 3 to 6-month period". That's schedule info. So we can create a Schedule section with that. We have "Management of consultancy": maybe not needed. We have "Education Required", "Experience Required", "Knowledge, Skills and Languages Required": these map to Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. The instruction: Use headings for Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to decide mapping. Typically: Education Required -> Qualifications. Experience Required -> Requirements. Knowledge, Skills and Languages Required -> Skills. We also have "Preferred PhD or Doctoral studies." under Education Required. We have "Competencies, Values and Comments" then "Application Instructions" etc which we should remove (boilerplate). Also "Notes" etc. We must not include application instructions. We must preserve all substantive info: so we need to include all the bullet points etc. We need to convert lists to

• . The posting uses semicolons and line breaks; we need to identify list items. Let's extract content. Organizational Context: paragraph about IFRC. We'll keep as

  . Job Purpose: paragraph. Desired outcomes of the Regional Strategy...: includes numbered list 1) 2) 3) and then bullet list of items after "This includes the following:" which is a list of items each starting with a verb. We'll turn those into

  • . Job Duties And Responsibilities: paragraph then list of items each ending with a period, separated by line breaks. We'll turn each line into
  • . Location: paragraph. Support to be provided to the consultant: paragraph. Time allocation: sentence. Management of consultancy: maybe not needed but could be part of About the role? Might be considered responsibilities? But we can include as a paragraph under About the role? However we should not invent sections. We could include it under About the role as extra paragraph. Education Required: paragraph. Experience Required: paragraph. Knowledge, Skills and Languages Required: paragraph. We should not include "Competencies, Values and Comments", "Application Instructions", "Notes". Now produce HTML. Structure:

    About the role

    Organizational Context ...

    Job Purpose ...

    Desired outcomes of the Regional Strategy for Measles and Rubella Elimination ...

    ...
    Then

    Responsibilities

    The selected consultants will support Ministries of Health (National Health Authorities) in the following activities:

    ...
    Maybe also include Location and Support as paragraphs under About the role? Or we could add a separate section "Location" but not allowed. So we can put them under About the role as extra paragraphs. Then

    Schedule

    Time allocation 40 hours per week over a 3 to 6-month period, depending on country needs.

    Then

    Requirements

    Experience Required ...

    Qualifications

    Education Required ...

    Skills

    Knowledge, Skills and Languages Required ...

    We need to ensure we don't repeat content. Let's craft the text. Organizational Context paragraph: "The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian network, with 191 member National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. IFRC uses the Triple R – response, resilience and respect – to deliver on Strategy 2030. IFRC responds to disasters and crises, ensuring timely, coordinated and locally led humanitarian action. IFRC supports its members in building community resilience in the areas of climate and environment, health and wellbeing, and migration and displacement. IFRC promotes respect for our fundamental principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality, including in our work on values, power and inclusion. The IFRC focuses throughout on our core mandate – our raison d’être – of strategic and operational coordination, humanitarian diplomacy, National Society development, and accountability. IFRC is led by its Secretary General and has its Headquarters in Geneva and five regional offices in Africa (Nairobi); the Americas (Panama); Asia Pacific (Kuala Lumpur); Europe (Budapest); and MENA (Beirut) as well as representation offices, service centres and delegations across the globe. Due to the recent global financial cutbacks in public health and immunization activities, technical support to many countries has been withdrawn thereby seriously threatening the planning and implementation of vaccination campaigns in 2025 and 2026. As a consequence, a partnership between the IFRC and the Measles and Rubella Partnership (M&RP) seeks to establish a Measles & Rubella Country Platform (M&R Country Platform) to overcome this gap in technical support to the Ministries of Health. The M&R Country Platform serves to advance the goals of the Immunization Agenda 2030 and is committed to reducing measles and rubella morbidity and mortality by supporting countries to implement the Measles and Rubella Strategic Framework 2021- 2030." Job Purpose paragraph: "This consultancy aims to develop and maintain critical activities to strengthen national rapid response, surveillance, and immunization efforts across countries in the region of the Americas, in order to enhance preparedness and response to outbreaks of measles, rubella, and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). Its purpose is to support countries in sustaining the elimination of these diseases." Desired outcomes paragraph: "To regain the elimination status of measles and rubella, the countries in the region of the Americas must urgently implement the three main components of the regional strategy for measles, rubella and CRS and elimination: 1) implement a rapid response to outbreaks; 2) achieve high and homogeneous population immunity levels; 3) and maintain a solid and sensitive surveillance systems." Then list after "This includes the following:" items: - Achieve vaccination coverage of 95% or higher with two doses of the vaccine in at least 80% of municipalities. - Identify and immediately report all suspected cases of measles, rubella, and CRS. - Conduct field investigations of all suspected cases within 48 hours after the case has been reported. - Strengthen surveillance in high-risk, border, and epidemiologically silent areas, complementing it with active case finding. - Identify and immediately vaccinate all contacts of confirmed or suspected cases (according to each country's analysis of susceptible individuals), ideally within the first 72 hours after the first contact with the case, during the period of disease transmissibility (4 days before to 4 days after the date of onset of the rash). - Implement rapid response plans, including the formation and training of rapid response teams, situation rooms, and adequate hospital infection prevention and control measures. - Intensify vaccination activities, using outbreak response vaccination tactics (selective or mass vaccination) in areas with confirmed cases and strengthening routine vaccination in areas and populations at higher risk of spread. - Ensure international travelers are vaccinated before visiting areas with active transmission, including infants aged 6 to 11 months as an exceptional measure, at least 15 days before visiting areas with active transmission. We'll put these in
    • . Then Responsibilities paragraph: "The selected consultants will support Ministries of Health (National Health Authorities) in the following activities:" Then list items: - Promote the organization of the Rapid Response Team (RaRT/ERRa – equipo de respuesta rápida) at the national and subnational levels and accompany and strengthen its actions. - Contribute to the situational analysis of measles or rubella outbreaks at least at the national level. - Support rapid response activities in areas with active outbreaks, with an emphasis on case investigation, identification and vaccination of susceptible contacts, active search of cases, and the implementation of selective or mass vaccination strategies, according to the epidemiologic scenario. - Support the implementation of microplanning activities for the implementation of mass vaccination strategies. - Support the implementation of Rapid Vaccination Monitoring (MRV) to identify pockets of unvaccinated or under-vaccinated individuals. - Strengthen epidemiological surveillance through monitoring of indicators and the implementation of community, institutional, and laboratory active searches, as part of outbreak control and outbreak closure actions. - Coordinate with different national actors, to triangulate information and strengthen outbreak control measures. - Support the National Sustainability Commission activities, including its participation in the ERRa at the national level. - Provide technical advice for the elaboration of the outbreak closing report, that should include the criteria to verify the outbreak interruption as described in the Regional Framework for the Monitoring and Re-verification of Measles, Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Elimination in the Americas. - Support the integration of the Red Cross/Red Crescent national society into the planning and coordination of vaccination activities to build capacity for future support. Specifically, facilitate Red Cross/Red Crescent participation in Ministry of Health social mobilization related committees to share Red Cross/Red Crescent knowledge of local community barriers, and if requested, support Red Cross/Red Crescent resource mobilization activities. - Hold weekly coordination meetings with relevant stakeholders, including the IFRC (including the M&R Country Platform Officer in Geneva), Red Cross/Red Crescent National Society and Pan American Health Organization country and regional office teams to track progress on rapid response implementation. - Prepare weekly written summary reports, including key action items from the coordination meetings, on the status of programmatic activities and share with the IFRC (including the M&R Country Platform Officer in Geneva), Red Cross/Red Crescent National Society, UNICEF, Pan American Health Organization country office team, and other relevant partners. Include photos of the actions supported in the field, as part of the reports. - Support the implementation of activities related to clinical management of measles complications, and infection prevention and control. - Other tasks that may arise in the assigned work. Location paragraph: "Deployment to country to provide direct support to the Ministry of Health and in-country partners. Duty station: Any priority country in the Region of the Americas." Support paragraph: "The consultant will be provided with support from