Public Health Officer
| Location | Juba, Sudan |
| Date Posted | January 24, 2020 |
| Category |
Administration
|
| Job Type |
Full-time
|
| Currency | SDG |
Description
Emergencies Programme (The Programme) is to build the capacity of Member
States to manage health emergency risks and, when national capacities
are overwhelmed, to lead and coordinate the international health
response to contain outbreaks and to provide effective relief and
recovery to affected populations.
The incumbent will perform the following duties in support of the health cluster functions:
- Assess threats to human life and health, damage to health infrastructure for primary and secondary care, the state of health referral and support systems, including cold chain, laboratory, essential drugs and health information systems, and the vital needs of the affected populations.
- Collaborate with national authorities and health partners to coordinate and implement public health response activities as part of the health cluster’s strategic response; analyse existing coordination mechanisms, designing and recommending improvements.
- Provide analysis of the public health risks, needs and capacities and advise on priority interventions for health cluster and partners; challenges and operational course correctors, as applicable.
- Analyse social determinants of health and their impact on the health cluster strategic plan including identifying inequities, gaps in the delivery of health services or emergency interventions, recommending appropriate actions and innovative approaches to improve the situation.
- Facilitate the implementation of effective, evidence-based policies, public health programmes and interventions through all life cycles, this might include maternal and new born health, health promotion and education, NCDs, the elderly, social determinant of health, violence and injury prevention, gender and health equity and other related areas.
- Secure information from a broad range of health sectors, analysing such and consolidating health data in trends and trends assessment, with particular attention to surveillance, monitoring and early warning.
- Coordinate meetings with all relevant partners and health cluster team, producing and circulating minutes, related decisions and tracking the later, and developing detailed “lessons learnt” reports, recommending improvement to current and future field operations.
- Provide input to communications and information products (Sitreps, health cluster bulletins, outbreak bulletins etc.) as required.
- Ensure compliance with IASC principles and the Humanitarian Programme Cycle in delivering health cluster response.
- Perform any other related incident-specific duties, as required by the functional supervisor.
- University degree in medicine or public health and/or health-related fields from an accredited/recognized institute.
- MD or Masters degree in public health. Post graduate studies or specialized training in emergency response or disaster management in the context of public health.
- Diploma in tropical medicine or diploma in disaster management.
- At least five years of relevant experience, at the national level, in public health in emergencies response or health cluster/sector coordination, with emphasis on managing outbreaks and health emergencies and/ or health consequences of emergencies and crises.
- Experience in capacity building, developing and promoting collaborative partnerships.
- Relevant work experience in WHO, other UN agencies, health cluster partners, recognized humanitarian organizations or relevant nongovernmental or humanitarian organizations.
- Experience in project management, monitoring and evaluation.
- Experience with resource mobilization in emergency settings.
- Excellent knowledge of English. Working knowledge of another WHO official language would be an asset (Arabic).
- In-depth knowledge of public health programmes with focus on prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases and their major risk factors, health system
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience of operational management of health aspects/consequences of humanitarian crises and outbreaks in field settings.
- Demonstrated skills in capacity building, proposal and report writing, knowledge of and experience with needs assessments in emergency settings, strategic information analysis and planning and ability to anticipate new trends in the field of public health and take actions accordingly.
- Managerial skills for the development, implementation and analysis of technical cooperation programmes and activities, including the development of programmatic indicators.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
·Remuneration
– this is a NO-C level assignment with a monthly remuneration of $4,450.
·Only
candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.
·A
written test may be used as a form of screening.
·If
your candidature is retained for interview, you will be required to provide, in
advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for
this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained
from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education
Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of
Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/.
Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require
individual review.
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of tobacco.
·Applications
from women are particularly encouraged.
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or authority. The execution of the work under an SSA contract does not create
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to the SSA holder in each location/jurisdiction in which the work hereunder is performed,
and the SSA holder shall not be entitled to any reimbursement thereof by WHO.