Roster for National consultant - Environmental health and climate change

Purpose of the positions

To support the implementation of the WHO Country Office’s program on the environmental health climate program and coordinate with relevant government counterparts, development partners, and NGOs in a specific thematic area under environmental health programs; provide technical assistance to advocate WHO guidance; and contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of the environmental health programs and initiatives.

Background

The environment and climate change risks continue to drive changes in the burden of diseases in Indonesia, both communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). WHO recorded that Indonesia accounted for an estimate of 15.8 deaths per 100,000 population attributed to unsafe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services in 2019. The figure is even higher for deaths associated with household and ambient air pollution, which contributed to 73 deaths per 100,000 people, in the same year. Climate change is also a major risk for people’s health and wellbeing. With extreme weather events, those who are vulnerable or live in vulnerable conditions are at higher risk of disease.

WHO Indonesia aims to enhance capacity and governance of the government of Indonesia through evidence-based policies and actions, awareness raising, and capacity building under the key environmental health focuses, which include air pollution, WASH, waste management, climate change, chemical and radiation safety, and food safety.

The purpose of this vacancy is to develop a list of qualified candidates to support WHO’s work in environmental health issues. Successful candidates will be placed on the roster and subsequently may be selected for consultancy assignments falling within the required area of work or for similar requirements/tasks/deliverables.

Deliverables

Specific deliverables will be pre-defined for each consultancy. The consultant is expected to perform a variety of tasks, including but not limited to the following:

• Contribute to the development of the technical background papers and reports of specific environmental health focus.
• Contribute to the national capacity building activities for specific environmental health interventions
• Contribute to the improvement of routine environmental health monitoring, surveillance, and its information system.
• Contribute to the modeling of robust approaches and innovations.
• Collect, synthesize, and disseminate best practices and lessons learned from national, regional, and international environmental health activities.
• Contribute to strengthening coordination and collaboration among environmental health stakeholders.
• Promoting advocacy to integrate environmental health programs with other health programs.

Qualifications, experience, skills, and languages:

Educational Qualifications:

Essential: Bachelor's degree in environmental health, public health, medicine, environmental engineering, civil engineering, environmental science, agriculture, microbiology, food technology, toxicology, or any related fields.

Desirable: A master's degree in environmental health, public health, medical, environmental engineering, civil engineering, environmental science, agriculture, microbiology, food technology, toxicology, climate change science, or any related fields.

Experience

Essential: At least 5 years of professional experience related to environmental health, air pollution, WASH, waste management, climate change, chemical and radiation safety, and food safety.

Desirable: WHO seeks highly qualified candidates with strong experience in:

• Water safety: drinking water quality, surveillance and monitoring, water safety plan (WSP), Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Health Facility Improvement Tools (WASH FIT), recreational water quality.
• Sanitation: sanitation safety planning (SSP), inspection and monitoring, sanitation safety planning, budgeting, and financing, policy related to water safety, hand hygiene, and menstrual hygiene management
• Climate change: modeling climate and health projection and surveillance; community-based climate and health interventions; health adaptation and mitigation; climate resilience (CR) for health actions (including CR-WSP; CR-SSP; CR-health care facilities; CR-health system); climate change and health impacts; a sound agricultural system; and a land use farming system
• Air Pollution: Air pollution monitoring and surveillance, indoor and ambient air quality, healthy housing, clean air
• Waste management: wastewater management and surveillance, medical waste management, municipal waste, green health innovations, microplastics, e-waste
• Food Safety: Food Control System Assessment, Hazard Analysis, Critical Control System, Foodborne Disease Surveillance, and Inspections
• Chemical safety: clinical management for chemical exposure, environmental health risk assessment for chemical exposure, chemical risk mitigation, poison center management
• Radiation: natural and artificial exposures, electromagnetic field exposure, radiological emergencies
• Generic environmental health relevance: planning, budgeting, and financing for environmental health; environmental health policy; health promotion and healthy systems; environmental health information systems; applied and renewable energy for environmental health sectors; environmental health actions during emergencies

The applicants should indicate their expertise in one or more of the areas listed above.

Skills/Technical skills and knowledge:

• Knowledge of global environmental health issues, approaches, theories, principles, tools, and methods in specific environmental health areas are preferable
• Good understanding of national targets and goals related to environmental health
• Self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Good interpersonal skills, ability to work as a consultant, and bridge the communication among relevant multi-stakeholders.
• Ability to participate actively and cooperatively in knowledge sharing at various levels and to coordinate the Government of Indonesia’s agencies, international/ bilateral, NGOs/INGOs, etc.

Language requirement:

• Expert knowledge of English.
• Expert knowledge of Local language (Indonesian).

Place of assignment:

Jakarta, Indonesia with possibility to work remotely depending on the task

Remuneration and budget (travel costs are excluded):

• Remuneration: Payband level TBC - Remuneration currency - IDR
• Expected duration of contract: Within July 2023 – December 2025; Depending on the task, a consultant may be hired for short term (less than 3 months) or more than 3 months

Additional information

• The rosters are a call for applications for future function-specific opportunities, determined by emerging needs. Rosters are not linked to a current vacancy
• This vacancy notice is being issued for establishing “Roster for National consultant - Environmental health and climate change”.
• Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.
• A written test may be used as a form of screening.
• If your candidature is retained for interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/ diploma(s)/certificate(s) in English 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.
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• WHO is committed to workforce diversity.
• WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.
• Applications from women and from nationals of non and underrepresented Member States are particularly encouraged.
• 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.
• Consultants shall perform the work as independent contractors in a personal capacity, and not as a representative of any entity or authority. The execution of the work under a consultant contract does not create an employer/employee relationship between WHO and the Consultant.
• This assignment is subject to local recruitment and will be filled by persons recruited in the local commuting area of the duty station/assignment location.
• WHO shall have no responsibility whatsoever for any taxes, duties, social security contributions or other contributions payable by the Consultant. The Consultant shall be solely responsible for withholding and paying any taxes, duties, social security contributions and any other contributions which are applicable to the Consultant in in each location/jurisdiction in which the work hereunder is performed, and the Consultant shall not be entitled to any reimbursement thereof by WHO.