EPI Supervisor

. Background on MAGNA:              

MAGNA is a medical humanitarian organization that has been actively working worldwide and providing humanitarian aid for more than 20 years. Currently, MAGNA implements humanitarian and health interventions in around 15 countries, with some of its largest operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, South Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. MAGNA delivers humanitarian assistance through direct engagement with health facilities, local health authorities, and frontline healthcare workers to ensure timely and lifesaving medical care for vulnerable populations affected by emergencies and crises.

MAGNA assists children, women, and vulnerable families affected by natural disasters, armed conflicts, displacement, disease outbreaks, and humanitarian emergencies. In the field, MAGNA deploys qualified doctors, nurses, nutrition staff, psychosocial counsellors, and technical specialists to support integrated humanitarian response and strengthen access to essential health and nutrition services.

MAGNA’s interventions primarily focus on Health, Nutrition, and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), aiming to save lives, reduce suffering, and improve access to quality healthcare services for crisis-affected communities. Armed conflicts, political instability, displacement, poverty, and weak health systems continue to place millions of people at risk, resulting in increased morbidity, malnutrition, disease outbreaks, and psychological distress. MAGNA prioritizes emergency medical response, outbreak preparedness and response, nutrition services, maternal and child healthcare, MHPSS, and support for underserved and hard-to-reach populations                   

MAGNA is currently looking for qualified staff to fill the(EPI Supervisor) in (Kunduz Province).                          

II. Background of program:

In Afghanistan, MAGNA has established a strong operational presence, particularly in the northeastern and southeastern regions. Since January 2026, MAGNA has been implementing the BPHS/HER AF2 project in Kunduz province, supporting 75 health facilities and more than 500 health posts serving over 1.5 million people. The project focuses on integrated primary healthcare services including maternal and newborn health, child health and immunization, nutrition, communicable disease management, MHPSS, referral services, and emergency preparedness and response activities.

MAGNA also has previous emergency response experience in southeastern and eastern Afghanistan. In 2025, MAGNA implemented emergency health and nutrition interventions in Khost province targeting returnees, displaced populations, and vulnerable host communities through integrated mobile and facility-based services. In addition, MAGNA supported emergency response activities following the Kunar earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, providing emergency medical assistance, nutrition support, essential medicines, and psychosocial support services to affected communities in hard-to-reach areas.

MAGNA has a zero-tolerance policy regarding Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) by its personnel against the people it serves. Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is the responsibility of all staff members, and all selected candidates are required to fully comply with MAGNA’s PSEA Policy at all times. MAGNA conducts rigorous reference and background checks related to safeguarding, misconduct, and SEA during recruitment processes, and additional verification may be requested throughout the selection process to ensure the highest standards of accountability, integrity, and protection.

Accountabilities:

-          Schedules and organizes all EPI related activities, its organization design and sizing as well as its associated budget in order to efficiently maintain the continuity of the immunization healthcare at the standard quality levels.

-          The EPI Supervisor is responsible for planning, organizing, implementing, supervision and following up EPI activities.

-          He technically supports implementation of National EPI policy based on the MoPH and BPHS in Kunduz province

-          he is also responsible to organize, supervise, monitor and support vaccinator’s activities and action plan in fixed centers and MHNT as well as, he is responsible to support implementation and monitoring of Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIAs) in close coordination with PEMT/ REMT

-          Conduct field visits to HFs at least 4 days per week across delegated HF.

-          he is responsible for supervision of vaccine stock and its monitoring at the HF level, including the availability of vaccines as per MoPH National EPI Policy, as well as he is responsible for tracking vaccine storage conditions (including during outreach).

III. Context Specific Accountabilities

-          Conduct supportive supervision visits using MAGAN’s “activity supervision tools”, provide on-the-job trainings on identified technical gaps and prepare supervision report with action plans together with relevant specialist and POs. Ensure action plan is shared and followed by HF in-charge.

-          Prepare micro plan for all EPI teams and maintain continues follow up of its implementation.

-          Set up the monthly, quarterly and annually target for all health facilities.

-          Ensure the availability and implementation of the EPI monthly outreach plan and tracing of defaulter cases.

-          Strengthen collection, analysis, use of EPI data and provide monthly feedback to all vaccinators.

-          Participate EPI sub-committee and other relevant meeting at provincial level, including annual provincial micro-planning meetings organized by REMT.

-          Maintain record of EPI team’s property/equipment (inventory) with in the HFs and project office

-          Identify and report immediately the outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases.

-          Facilitate/ co-facilitate health specialist and Sn. Capacity building trainer on technical trainings on EPI topics. Preparation of demands/ request for vaccines supply and other EPI related activities.

-          Ensure the availability of up-to-date EPI guidelines in all health facilities.

-          Ensure the availability of vaccine monitoring (Thermometer, freeze tag) tools are available and functional in all health facilities.

-          Ensure the availability and proper use of all reporting and data collection tools in all health facilities.

-          Develop a monthly action plan for the improvement of the gaps observed in the HFs in coordination with the Health team/supervisor and provide on-the-job to vaccinators as per need

-          Ensuring the cold chain is maintained during transportation as well as in the HFs

-          Design the charts and table to set up the follow up of targets and indicators.

-          Conducting periodical meetings with the health supervisors and participate in the health facility directors meeting. 

-          Ensure the Preparation of vaccine defaulter list and follow up of the list with HF vaccinators, community health worker, CHS as well with the CNT team.

Submission of application:

Interested candidates should submit their application letter, CV with reference details, copies of diploma, work certificate, professional licence (if aplicable) to:

Interested and qualified applicants can apply through the online platform.

personal-adm-mng@af.magna.org

No other type of submission will be accepted.

Please mention the vacancy number and position name in the subject line of the email. Otherwise, you will not be shortlisted.

Regarding MAGNA recruitment process, please note that!

·        MAGNA will conduct its recruitment based on need only.

·        MAGNA commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.

·        Only HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.

·        MAGNA may keep data of your application for its pool of candidate and might propose to you another position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.

Only short-listed candidates whose application responds to the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.

With the reference: XXX. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.