Health Specialist - Child Injury Prevention (P-4), FT, PG - Health, New York HQ

Contract

This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 171,387 USD and 220,969 USD.

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

UNICEF Program Group is currently undergoing organizational changes; therefore, the exact location of the post has yet to be determined. Selected candidates may be required to commence duties remotely until the location is confirmed. If reassigned or relocated to New York, candidates may be expected to relocate to a new location again during the initial contract or assignment period. When working remotely, the candidate will be required to agree on working hours with the Hiring Office, which may require the inclusion of all or some of the NYHQ core working hours (10AM-4PM).

For UNICEF, the prevention of injuries (including from road traffic and drowning) and NCDs in the early years and securing a healthy built environment for children to thrive are critical components of children’s and adolescents’ right to health and devel to their full potential. For example, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has set an ambitious target of halving these deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes by 2030.

For every child, a healthy life….

Under the supervision of the Health Specialist, Disability, NCDs, and Injuries you will coordinate the unit’s work on child injury prevention globally, regionally, and at the country level. Specifically, you will lead the development and the dissemination of technical guidance documents on child injury prevention (focusing on road traffic injuries and on drowning) which will articulate strategies for UNICEF programming in these areas. Work will also include advancing the goals of the Second Decade of Action on Road Safety and the SDGs by advocating and implementing 30km/h school speed zones and supporting good practices for 30 countries by 2030. Additional tasks will include advocacy efforts on child injury prevention and promoting healthy built environments efforts focused on children and adolescents in global, regional, and national policies and programmes. This will also include technical support to governments in evidence generation, evidence-based policy development and costing for the prevention of child injuries, and support integration of child injury prevention and health environments within national development plans, strategies, and initiatives.

How can you make a difference?

Strengthened UNICEF partnership and global coordination on Child injuries Prevention

• Leads on UNICEF partnership coordination at global, regional, and country-level stakeholders, including with the UN Road Safety Fund, WHO, UNDP and other lead agencies supporting injury prevention. Provides technical support to ensure the timely preparation and completion of the relevant components relating to global, regional, and national policies and programmes on child injury prevention for children and adolescents. Builds partnerships through inclusion of donor organizations and partners at global and country levels to support the development and updating of national policies and programmes.

Technical guidance documents on child injury prevention (focusing on road traffic injuries and on drowning) articulating strategies for UNICEF programming developed, disseminated and used.

• Gathers data, information and other evidence and conducts analyses and together with partners prepares technical guidance on child injury prevention. Leads on the dissemination of guidance at global regional and country levels within UNICEF and child injury partnerships within countries. Plans, organizes, and conducts orientation activities for the purpose of capacity building and improved effective implementation of child injury prevention.

Evidence-based policy development and costing for the prevention of child injuries (focused on drowning and road traffic injuries) generated through technical assistance aligned with WHO and partners.

• Leads on generating evidence and using it to develop costed plans for the prevention of child injuries, aligned within global and national partnerships. Provides the necessary technical assistance for the development of country level costed plans that can then be used to leverage investments and resources within countries and at global level. Also lead and support advancing the goals of the Second Decade of Action on Road Safety and the SDGs by advocating and implementing 30km/h school speed zones and supporting good practices for 30 countries by 2030.

Regional and national offices supported in the development of policy engagement to influence national investments on the ‘survive and thrive agenda’ focusing on child injury prevention.

• Through the UNICEF Regional Offices provide coordinate technical assistance to UNICEF Country Offices on prevention of child injuries, with focus on integration within Primary Health Care (PHC), and within UNICEF supported programmes at subnational and community levels. Working alongside the efforts underway on the child and adolescent health and wellbeing agenda with WHO, help mainstream a life course approach to child injury prevention across sectors within national policies, strategies, and implementation plans. Where appropriate and of added value, identify the inclusion of child injury prevention in strategically focused documents such as the child and adolescent and wellbeing strategy and future recommendations and guidance and guidelines for use by global and country partnerships and governments.

Child injury prevention is mainstreamed in national development plans, strategies, and initiatives across sectors, including health, education, social welfare, and other systems to address the risks of road traffic injuries and drowning among children, adolescents, women, girls, and boys.

• Serve as a focal point for Child Injury Prevention globally, and work with other sectors to develop cross-sectoral approaches for child injury prevention; Child Injury Prevention incorporated into the UNICEF survive and thrive programming across sectors. Lead on strengthening linkages between sectors and inclusion of a continuum life-course longitudinal approach in the first two decades of life for the prevention of injuries in children. Through technical assistance to countries contribute to improved coordination across sectors to harness the strengths of a multi-sector approach to reducing child and adolescent injuries and deaths due to injuries, including from road traffic accidents and drowning.

Support to fundraising efforts for child injury prevention

• Lead on the identification of funding needs and requirements and linking up with donor agencies and developing thematic funding proposals in support of the work on child injury prevention. Support the strengthening of partnerships to raise new investments, including supporting countries to leverage funding globally and at the country level.

All required programme proposals and reports are timely prepared in compliance with the established guidelines and procedures.

• Oversees and ensures the timely preparation of donor proposals and reports in compliance with the established guidelines and procedures. Makes technical contributions to the preparation of all programme reports, including ensuring that expenditures are in accordance with the approved proposals, budgets, and agreements with donors and implementing partners. Provide the necessary information and data for programme analysis, and annual reports, and provide guidance and assistance in programme related reporting.

Emergency preparedness is maintained, and in emergencies, emergency responses with effective coordination are provided.

• In the event of an emergency and humanitarian situation impacting the health and wellbeing of child and adolescents with respect to injuries causes by drowning and road traffic situations, collaborate in including child injury prevention in UNICEF supported emergency preparedness plans. In case of emergency, participates in monitoring and assessing the nature and extent of the emergency in the assigned area. Coordinates and provides assistance to the Country Office in identifying where support is required in terms of immediate response as well as long-term strategy and plan.

Other assigned duties and responsibilities are effectively accomplished.

• Assumes any other duties and responsibilities assigned as appropriate to the purpose of this post, and delivers the results as required.

  To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Public Health (preferably with specialized training in child injury prevention, public health planning, health promotion and education, health care system management, or epidemiology), Child Development, Social Policy, Social Development, Community Development, or other relevant disciplines and/or in relevant field is required.

• A minimum of 8 (eight) years of professional work experience at the national and international levels in child injury prevention, health planning, programming, implementation monitoring, and evaluation of health programmes relevant to child survival, thrive, and transformation agenda is required.
• Prior professional work experience in a managerial position, or a technical expert position in child injury prevention, health, and other relevant technical areas of child survival, thriving and transform is desired.
• Developing country work experience (for IP) or fieldwork experience (for NO) will be considered an asset.
• Background/familiarity with Emergency is an asset.
• Familiarity with the United Nations System is an asset.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, or Spanish) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

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UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

“UNICEF 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 at http://www.whed.net/”

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• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
• Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.