Health Specialist, P-3, East Asia Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO) in Bangkok, Thailand

Contract

This is a P-3 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 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 105,628 USD and 138,312 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.

For every child, Health

Reports to Regional Chief of Health and HIV/AIDS/Regional health advisor to support 14 country offices in the region on a broad range of areas including health systems, practically in the areas of integrated maternal, newborn health, prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/Hepatitis B and syphilis and adolescent health.

How can you make a difference?

The incumbent is accountable for technical assistance, regional coordination and partnership building in the development, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring, evaluation and supportive oversight for strengthening health systems and UHC for children, focusing on the areas of integrated maternal and newborn health, prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/Hepatitis B and Syphilis and adolescent health, which are defined in the latest EAP regional operation plan and EAP’s country programmes.

Under the overall guidance of Reginal Health Advisor, the incumbent acts as a regional focal person on HIV/AIDS, and are accountable for HIV sectoral review, the UNAIDS UBRAF Joint Programme Monitoring System (JPMS) regional and country reports, country offices thematic OR report, regular analysis/synthesis of good practices with accurate and complete monitoring and analysis, and the timely preparation.

The incumbent is accountable for contributing to achievements of the EAPRO reginal headlines and UNICEF’s strategic plan, and for realizing the UNICEF programme to promote gender equality, with an emphasis on gender disaggregation, gender disparity identification and gender mainstreaming.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

1. Regional and country situation analysis, regional programme development and planning

Expected end-result: Timely and strategic global, regional and country context analysis contribute to the development of comprehensive situation analysis with consistent integration of sex and other disaggregated data and its periodic update for effective programme planning, monitoring and advices.

2. Regional programme management, monitoring and delivery of results

Expected end-result: Work plans are strategically formulated, and their implementations are regularly monitored, adjusted and improved to timely deliver planned or adjusted results.

3. Oversight and technical assistances to country programme implementations in the region

Expected end-result: Proactive remote and on-site technical supports are provided to country teams through timely advices, effective capacity building and coordinated engagement with their government partners, UNs/H6, young key populations and other key stakeholders.

4. Networking and partnership building

Expected end-result: Quality contributions are made for strengthening health systems through maintaining and building strategic partnerships and collaborations with internal, UNs/H6 partners, young people and other external stakeholders.

5. Reimagination thought leadership and knowledge management

Expected end-result: Become an informed opinion leader through client-oriented knowledge management by focusing on systems and people and through integrating knowledge management in daily activities.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in one of the following fields is required: public health, health systems and financing, 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 first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in health policy development, advocacy and programming at international level, of which at least five years in one or more areas of health systems, adolescent health and prevention of mother to child transmission as well as prevention among adolescent and young key populations at risk of HIV and STIs exposures.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language 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.

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

Core Competencies

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

Functional Competencies

• Analyzing (3)
• Deciding and Initiating action (2)
• Applying technical expertise (3)

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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. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.