National Professional Officer (Public Health)

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

The salary for this job should be more than 3,476 USD.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

The overall goal of WHO's Health Emergencies (WHE) Programme is to minimize the health consequences of emergencies due to any biological, natural, technological or societal hazard. Collective and sound health emergency and disaster risk management is essential to health security, to sustainable development and to building the resilience of communities, countries and health systems.The objectives of WHO's WE Programme are: to help Member States build their capacity 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 minimize the impact on the health of affected populations. WHO's Health Emergencies Programme directs all of the Organization's work in health emergency risk management, with an all-hazards approach comprising risk reduction, preparedness, readiness, response and early recovery activities, and with a particular emphasis on the identification and mitigation of infectious hazards and risks.The Programme is responsible for establishing and managing WHO's operational capacity in acute and protracted emergencies, setting overall strategy and ensuring appropriate operational planning, managing field operations, developing and ensuring adherence to technical standards, and ensuring risk and performance monitoring. The Programme engages in relevant partnerships and inter-agency processes, recognizing that its impact should be optimized by coordinating, leveraging and facilitating the implementation roles of other local, national and international entities and partners best positioned to deliver the relevant clinical or other public health services. WHO's WHE Programme integrates and operates under the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence in the serving populations effected by outbreaks.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

The incumbent will be required to perform all or part of the following duties:1. Manages data collection and analysis, including developing and reviewing various technical reports and documentation with a special focus on activities strengthening the country's capacity in the implementation of the International Health regulations (IHR), achieving results such as:• Secure information from a broad range of health sectors, analysis of data and recommendation of action.• Coordination of teams working on maintaining, assessing, improving and developing public health surveillance systems and registries.• Design implementation, follow up and reporting on assessments relevant to the health of displaced people or other population groups affected by crisis.• Technical reviews of programme plans, reports, proposals and other documents relevant to the programme• Comprehensive qualitative and quantitative periodic reports according to WHO developed indicators on activities in public health facilities.2. Manages capacity building initiatives for health personnel in various settings , achieving results such as:• Identification of training needs for respective target audiences and development of comprehensive plans for capacity building.• Preparation of training material tailored to the specific needs.• Assure regular briefings of MOH on international health regulations and its requirements• Arrangement and delivery of capacity building activities for health personnel in health facilities and points of entries• Follow up and impact analysis on the WHO training workshops for different health care providers including international health regulations• Support the ministry of health in the organization of the review of the country's capacity to implement IHR requirements and of after action reviews3. Monitors and coordinates the implementation of planned activities, national campaigns and field action, achieving results such as:• Collaboration with health partners to ensure that the provided humanitarian and public health services are in line with international priorities and with the international health regulations (IHR).• Identification of priority health and nutrition-related issues among the affected population and ensuring that these are properly addressed in an integrated primary healthcare approach.• Plan and delivery of interventions to solve urgent problems identified during the analysis phase.• Meetings (including field meetings) with the national counterparts and UN stakeholders for planning, conducting and reprogramming of collaborative actions. Preparation of reports, recommendations and lessons learnt on and of these meetings.• Technical guidance for prevention and control of disease outbreaks during and after emergency situations;

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: Essential:University degree in Medicine or public health. Desirable: Desirable:Master degree inPublic Health or epidemiology and/or health related field

Experience

Essential: Essential:At least two years of relevant experience in public health field with emphasis on emergency and humanitarian response Desirable:

Skills

1) Demonstrate knowledge of health sector activities in the context of emergency response relief.2) Broad knowledge of Emergency programmes, policies and interventions.3) Proven knowledge of the International Health Regulations (IHR)4) Ability to work under pressure.5) Knowledge of WHO and UN programmes.6) Excellent presentation skills.7) Proven skills in capacity building

WHO Competencies

Teamwork Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences Communication Knowing and managing yourself Producing results

Use of Language Skills

Essential: Expert knowledge of English. Expert knowledge of Arabic. Desirable:

REMUNERATION

Remuneration comprises an annual base salary starting at USD 41,710 (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.

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• WHO is committed to workforce diversity.

• WHO prides itself on a workforce that adheres to the highest ethical and professional standards and that is committed to put the WHO Values Charter into practice.

• WHO has zero tolerance towards sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct (i.e., discrimination, abuse of authority and harassment). All members of the WHO workforce have a role to play in promoting a safe and respectful workplace and should report to WHO any actual or suspected cases of SEA, sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct. To ensure that individuals with a substantiated history of SEA, sexual harassment or other types of abusive conduct are not hired by the Organization, WHO will conduct a background verification of final candidates.

• 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.