Regional Rapid Outbreak Response Roster
Role Summary
Join the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center as a consultant to enhance regional outbreak response and disaster risk management efforts.
About the Organisation
The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) is an autonomous international organization established for scientific, educational, developmental, and humanitarian purposes with a vision of safer communities and sustainable development through disaster risk reduction and climate resilience in Asia and the Pacific. Established in 1986 as a technical capacity-building center, ADPC has grown and diversified its expertise across social and physical sciences, envisioning safer communities and sustainable development through disaster risk reduction. Being an autonomous international organization governed by the Board of Trustees. It supports sustainable solutions for disaster risk reduction across a broad range of specialist areas, with a wide range of professional expertise from atmospheric scientists to social scientists with experience from all levels of engagement typically required for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Resilience (CR) effectively.
ADPC’s Strategy 2030 guides the organization in providing comprehensive risk reduction support to countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific, with various programs being implemented under 15 strategic themes by three departments, namely Preparedness and Climate Actions, Risk Analytics and Climate Services, and Risk Governance and Financing. In addition to these, ADPC also works on three cross-cutting themes: Gender and Diversity, Innovation, and Regional and Transboundary Cooperation through permanent working committees. These activities are supported by proactive individual departments of Finance, Human Resources, and Administration. ADPC recognizes the importance of examining the linkages between disaster risk management, poverty reduction, gender equality, sustainability, rights-based approaches, climate change, and regional cooperation. For details, please refer to the ADPC website at http://www.adpc.net/.
Key Responsibilities
Duties are defined in each assignment-specific terms of reference. Across all categories, experts are expected to:
- Provide high-quality technical or operational advice within the roster category and assignment agreed.
- Work under government leadership and through existing national, subnational and regional systems and coordination mechanisms, applying national policies, protocols and laws alongside recognized international technical standards.
- Coordinate effectively with ADPC, technical and implementation partners, government authorities and local institutions.
- Produce concise, evidence-based and operationally useful deliverables within agreed timelines.
- Transfer knowledge and capability through mentoring, coaching, joint implementation and practical documentation.
- Identify and promptly escalate operational, technical, ethical, safeguarding, security and data-protection risks.
- Contribute to monitoring, after-action review, learning, handover and transition.
Minimum Requirements
1\. Incident Management, Public Health EOC and Response Information Management
2\. Field Epidemiology, Surveillance, Rapid Risk Assessment and One Health
3\. Laboratory Systems, Diagnostics, Specimen Referral and Genomic Surveillance
4\. Infection Prevention, Clinical and Case Management
5\. Risk Communication, Community Engagement and Community-Based Surveillance
6\. Environmental Health, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, and Vector Control
7\. Emergency Health Logistics and Supply Chain
8\. Rapid Response Team and Surge Workforce
9\. Points of Entry, IHR and Cross-Border Health
10\. Safeguarding, Security and Duty of Care
11\. Simulation Exercise, AAR, and Capacity Development
12\. Emergency Financing and Local Partner Grants
13\. Monitoring, Evaluation, After-Action Review and Transition
14\. Digital Health, AI and Outbreak Information Systems
15\. Regional Partnership, Governance and Health Diplomacy
16\. Knowledge Management, Learning and Advocacy
Two experience tracks apply. The senior trackapplies to profiles that set standards, advise governments and lead technical work. The practitioner track applies to profiles that deploy to subnational and field locations, where operational field experience is the determining qualification.
Both tracks are open across both rosters. Roster B categories are filled predominantly on the senior track. Roster A categories typically require both: a senior technical lead advising national authorities, and practitioners working at subnational and field level.
- Experience establishing or strengthening Public Health EOCs and incident management systems;
- preparation of operational manuals, SOPs, activation protocols and coordination structures;
- experience supporting live activations and exercises.
- Includes incident action planning, maintenance of a common operating picture, situation reporting and resource tracking during live response.
- Advanced degree in epidemiology or public health;
- experience in event-based and indicator-based surveillance, rapid risk assessment, outbreak investigation, community surveillance and joint epidemiological assessments;
- FETP qualification desirable.
- One Health applicants should hold veterinary or environmental health qualifications with experience in zoonotic surveillance and joint animal–human risk assessment.
- Advanced degree in laboratory sciences, microbiology, virology or a related field;
- experience with diagnostic networks, quality assurance, biosafety, laboratory referral systems and expedited specimen transport; specimen-shipping certification preferred.
- Genomic surveillance applicants should have experience in sequencing workflows, bioinformatics and variant reporting.
- Medical, nursing or relevant clinical qualification;
- experience developing and implementing IPC and outbreak case-management protocols, facility preparedness, clinical referral pathways and healthcare-worker protection measures.
- Advanced degree in public health, behavioural science, communications or social sciences;
- experience in RCCE strategy, community surveillance, behavioural-data use, rumour management, feedback mechanisms and locally led response.
- Degree in environmental health, public health engineering, entomology or a related field;
- experience in outbreak WASH response, water quality and safe water supply, sanitation and hygiene promotion in emergencies, cholera and diarrhoeal disease control, and vector surveillance and control for dengue and other vector-borne outbreaks.
- Advanced degree in logistics, supply-chain management or emergency operations;
- experience with medical supply chains, procurement, pre-positioning, stock management, cold chain, customs clearance and mission-ready outbreak packages.
- Advanced degree in public health, medicine, emergency management or a related field;
- experience designing and managing national or international rapid response teams, expert rosters, credentialing systems, deployment procedures and team-readiness standards.
- Advanced degree in public health, border health or a related field;
- strong knowledge of the International Health Regulations;
- experience with airport, seaport and land-crossing preparedness, screening, isolation, referral, notification and cross-border coordination.
- Qualification in safeguarding, protection, security management or a related field;
- Experience implementing PSEA and safeguarding frameworks in operational settings, deployment security risk assessment, access negotiation, staff welfare and duty-of-care arrangements.
- Safeguarding applicants require survivor-centred response and incident reporting experience.
- Advanced degree in public health, emergency management, education, or a related field;
- experience designing tabletop, functional and full-scale exercises;
- adult learning, training-of-trainers, exercise evaluation and corrective-action planning experience.
- Advanced degree in finance, economics, public administration or a related field;
- experience designing emergency financing, rapid-disbursement, subgrant and local-partner funding mechanisms;
- strong knowledge of fiduciary controls and donor compliance.
- Advanced degree in public health, health systems, monitoring and evaluation, organizational development or a related field;
- experience designing and applying performance frameworks and indicators for emergency operations;
- facilitating after-action reviews, performance-improvement plans, handover and transition processes, institutionalization and sustainability planning.
- Advanced degree in health informatics, data science, computer science, epidemiology or a related field;
- experience developing interoperable surveillance or emergency reporting platforms, dashboards, data inventories and AI-enabled decision-support tools;
- knowledge of privacy, cybersecurity and responsible AI required.
- Advanced degree in public policy, international relations, law, public health or a related field;
- experience facilitating regional cooperation, policy dialogue, government agreements, activation arrangements, cross-border protocols and engagement with regional bodies.
- Advanced degree in knowledge management, communications, public health or a related field;
- experience producing technical guidance, lessons-learned products, policy briefs, advocacy materials, regional learning platforms and knowledge-exchange initiatives.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility details are not provided; applicants should check for specific requirements.
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