Nutrition and Physical Activity Officer

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 2,126 USD.

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PN 419866

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

The objectives of WHO's emergency programme are to design and implement programmes that prepare the health sector to deal with emergencies and that improve health during and after crises. Within the emergency programme, the objectives of WHO's emergency response team are to support Member States by:

1) promptly assessing health needs of populations affected by crisis, identifying priority causes of ill-health and death; preparing damage estimates and emergency response and rehabilitation plans; providing prompt, credible health information and ensuring the continuity of essential health services;

2) coordinating and monitoring emergency health relief efforts under the aegis of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Health Cluster, of which WHO is the lead agency;

3) ensuring that critical gaps in the health response are rapidly identified and filled;

4) revitalizing and building the capacity of national health systems to deal with preparedness, mitigation and response.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

The incumbent will perform the following duties:

Manage data collection and analysis and develop comprehensive plans to implement national programmes, achieving results such as:

-Preparation of nutrition programme profiles, identification of targets and priorities, selection of nutrition interventions, formulation of programme objectives, and development of long and short term action plans.

-Analysis and interpretation of collected data for reporting and feedback mechanisms for partners and other reporting sites

-Evaluation of all nutrition activities in terms of collecting periodic data from the nutrition stabilization center, and conducting timely health and nutrition analysis, inputs, support and coordination.

-Collaboration with quality assurance group/agency to crosscheck the data produced by sentinel sites.

-Proposal of and taking action on operational procedures on implementation and management of national programmes.

-Act as a focal person for the Nutrition Surveillance system including data management under Health and Nutrition Surveillance data from the sentinel sites and generating periodic bulletin.

-Timely preparation and implementation of nutrition surveillance project operational and action plan, incl. management of administrative and financial requirements, identification and rectification of gaps in programme implementation.

-Establishment of Health and Nutrition Sentinel Surveillance System(HANSS) in all the camps and health facilities in the affected districts.

-Participation in the planning of WHO emergency and humanitarian nutrition activities in emergency and crisis preparedness, response and recovery at country level.

Monitor and coordinate the implementation of planned activities, national campaigns and field action, achieving results such as:

-Monitoring progress of programmes towards set expected results.

-Analysis of technical aspects of national programme implementation, including identification of successes, approaches that have positive impacts as well as constraints.

-Technical guidance to programme staff of local partners including MoH.

-Implementation of relevant activities related to a broad range of nutrition issues, e.g. among others interventions that accelerate health of children, lactating mothers and groups at special risks; expansion and growth monitoring of infant and young child feeding (IYCF), micronutrient and management of severe acute malnutrition programs, etc.

-Field and community visits for monitoring of nutrition community activities including of community sentinel sites (surveillance system).

-Management of the operational aspects of the emergency response work plans. Carries out training activities to strengthen capacity at various levels, 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.

-Development of advocacy materialsand key messages in nutrition to the targeted beneficiaries.

-Organization and delivery of training activities to various target groups, e.g. to improve case management and prevention at various levels. Assessment of impact of training and capacity building activities.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: First level university degree in medicine with specialization in Nutrition Desirable: Advanced training in facility-based management of severe malnutrition, nutrition surveillance and communications

Experience

Essential: At least 2 years of relevant experience in the field of nutrition and food security Desirable: Experience or sound knowledge of WHO mandate and goals in humanitarian health crisis, or experience in UN organizations/agencies, international institutions or NGOs.

Skills

- Good knowledge of the processes and approaches concerning nutrition issues; knowledge of the operations of the national governments in the area of nutrition and health.

-Good knowledge of nutrition activities particularly in management of acute malnutrition, growth monitoring and nutrition surveillance system.

-Experience/training in organizing and executing nutrition programmes. -Ability to interact with health and nutrition professionals at various level.

WHO Competencies

WHO global Competencies model at http://www.who.int/employment/WHO_competencies_EN.pdf?ua=1

Teamwork Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences Communication Ensuring the effective use of resources Producing results Creating an empowering and motivating environment

Use of Language Skills

Essential:

Excellent knowledge of English and local language.

REMUNERATION

Remuneration comprises an annual base salary starting at USD 25,511 (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.

• Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply on-line. For assessment of your application, please ensure that your profile on Stellis is updated; all experience records are entered with elaboration on tasks performed at the time. Kindly note that CV/PHFs inserted via LinkedIn are not accessible.

• 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.

• Staff members in other duty stations are encouraged to apply.

• 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.