How To Apply

Opportunities

CIII-3 welcomes applications from public health-related professionals with extensive experience for the following potential assignments:

• Three-month assignments to assist with polio eradication, measles mortality reduction and/or the strengthening of routine immunization services in polio-endemic or at risk countries in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP) Program.  Recruitment is ongoing but missions usually start in January, May and September.
• Three-month assignments to assist WHO, PAHO and UNICEF with specific immunization-related needs. Recruitment is ongoing.
 

General Criteria for Applicants

The criteria for applicants to CIII-3 technical consultancy positions include:

• A graduate degree in public health, epidemiology, data management or a related field with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience, or 10 years relevant work experience with under-graduate degree or diploma (relevant work experience includes public health program implementation, public health surveillance, epidemiology (outbreak investigation or field surveys), and planning, supervising, monitoring, and evaluating mass immunization programs);
• Canadian citizen or permanent resident;
• Ability to work in difficult conditions and flexibility to adapt to constantly changing circumstances;
• Intercultural experience;
• Ability to speak French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, or other languages is an asset.

Application Process

CIII-3 is currently hosting an ON-LINE DATABASE of prospective applicants who have expressed an interest in becoming technical consultants. To be considered for a consultancy position, applicants must register electronically by visiting the following:

 Please submit the appropriate STOP application form (for STOP in general or as a data manager or as a communications manager) to ciii@cpha.ca. Note that CIII-3 handles the recruitment for all Canadian citizens as well as permanent residents of Canada.

If you do not have e-mail access, please mail to:

Only those applicants who have been short-listed by CIII-3 will be contacted. The need for specific expertise will depend on the number and type of requests CIII-3 receives from its international partners. CIII-3 supports approximately 5 technical consultancies annually.

More Information

Prospective applicants are invited to enquire further about the program and the application process.