National Professional Officer (Health Emergencies)

Contract

This is a NO-B contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 2 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

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OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

WHO is a specialized agency of the United Nations with objectives to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable. The WHO Indonesia Country Office (WCO INO) supports the Indonesian Government in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of national health policies, strategies and plans, setting norms and standards, improving knowledge dissemination and management, monitoring country health situation and building sustainable institutional capacity. The Country Office develops a two-way collaboration with the Government of Indonesia to ensure that the core public health capacities for emergency preparedness and risk management are strengthened and national capacity is sufficient to prevent the spread of outbreaks.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

Under the direct supervision of the TO-Preparedness and response and overall supervision of the TL-WHE, the incumbent shall perform the following duties:

1. Support WHE team in WCO INO to review current operational readiness of WCO INO such as BCP, CPs and SoPs under WHO country office operational readiness checklist and Emergency Response Operations manual;

2. Support WCO INO for providing necessary support for community resilience and engagement for health emergency/disaster preparedness, response and recovery;

3. Provide technical support to the MoH Crisis Center to review status of emergency/disaster preparedness and operational readiness and coordinate development of health emergency preparedness and response plan utilizing an all hazards approach at the national and sub-national levels and hazard specific scenario based contingency planning at districts of the province;

4. Support WHE team for closely monitoring disasters from natural hazards and health emergency events through the Health Emergency Operations Center (HEOC) of the MoH and government disaster management agencies;

5. Support WCO INO WHE team for providing technical support to MoH INO for Disaster Risk Reduction/Risk Management, CBRN activities, operational readiness, national EMT development, training, health cluster coordination and enhanced HEOC capacity by strengthening health emergency preparedness, readiness and response planning at national and subnational levels;

6. Participate actively in humanitarian country team working groups and health cluster meetings as necessary; and

7. Perform any other duties as assigned by TL WHE and WR.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: First university degree (Bachelor's level) in Medicine or Nursing or a health related field Desirable: Master's degree in public health or health emergency management

Experience

Essential: At least two years of experience in the area of health emergency management: health risk reduction/management, preparedness, readiness, operational response and recovery Desirable: Experience of working with UN agency or international agency with national health emergency programmes in/for Indonesia; health coordination or capacity building experience in health emergency management

Skills

• Comprehensive knowledge of the theory, principles, methods and techniques of health emergency management: risk reduction/risk management, preparedness, readiness, response operations and recovery

• Demonstrated ability to manage stress and difficult situations

WHO Competencies

Teamwork Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences Communication Ensuring the effective use of resources Creating an empowering and motivating environment### Use of Language Skills

Essential: Expert knowledge of English. Expert knowledge of Bahasa Indonesia. Desirable:

REMUNERATION

Remuneration comprises an annual base salary starting at IDR 548,124,000 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable) and 30 days of annual leave.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade level

• Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.

• A written test may be used as a form of screening.

• In the event that your candidature is retained for an 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.

• Any appointment/extension of appointment is subject to WHO Staff Regulations, Staff Rules and Manual.

• For information on WHO's operations please visit: http://www.who.int.

• WHO is committed to workforce diversity.

• WHO's workforce adheres to the WHO Values Charter and is committed to put the WHO Values into practice.

• WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.

• This is a National Professional Officer position. Therefore, only applications from nationals of the country where the duty station is located will be accepted. Applicants who are not nationals of this country will not be considered.