The Health Officer reports to the Health Specialist for supervision. The Health Officer provides professional technical, operational, and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the Health Programme, specifically the Health Emergencies and Emerging Public Health programming, within the Country Programme, from development planning to delivery of results, by preparing, executing, managing, and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, and evaluating and reporting of results.
Key function, accountabilities, and related duties/tasks
- Support to programme development and planning
- Programme management, monitoring, and delivery of results
- Technical and operational support to programme implementation
- Networking and partnership building
- Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
Please review the details in the attached job Profile for the position:
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education:
- A university degree in one of the following fields is required: public health/nutrition, pediatric health, family health, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or management, environmental health sciences, biostatistics, socio-medical, health education, epidemiology, or another relevant technical field.
- A minimum of two years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: public health/nutrition planning and management, maternal and neonatal health care, or health emergency/humanitarian preparedness
- Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
- Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
Language
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of a local language is an asset
Desirables:
- Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency.
