Overview
The Assistant Public Health Officer will ensure that UNHCR's public health programs meet minimum standards to minimize morbidity and mortality among persons with whom UNHCR works. The role involves supporting the implementation of public health programs in coordination with various partners.
Tasks Summary
- Provide support for the implementation of public health programmes in a multi-sectoral and coordinated manner.
- Support a strategic approach to public health towards greater inclusion and access of refugees to national health systems.
- Participate in relevant coordination and collaboration structures.
- Participate in emergency responses to new refugee influxes and disease outbreaks.
- Support gathering information for relevant assessments and identification of needs.
- Work closely with programme and other units in programme planning and monitoring.
- Support intersectoral collaboration throughout all stages of programme cycle.
- Assist with the implementation of relevant UNHCR Health Information System suite of tools and surveys.
- Support capacity strengthening of UNHCR and its implementing partners.
- Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives.
- Perform other related duties as required.
- Support public health emergency preparedness and response planning.
- Support the technical integrity of health care services.
- Support the process for preparing and processing medicine and medical supply orders with partners.
- Ensure community engagement and community participation in health programming.
- Monitor and support compliance with, and integrity of, all UNHCR Public Health Administrative Instruction/standard operating procedures.
Experience Requirements
- Extensive experience in public health in humanitarian settings: emergency preparedness and response.
- Experience in coordination and stakeholder engagement to achieve public health goals.
- Experience in the provision of quality-assured medicines and medical supplies.
- Extensive field work experience in the provision of support for the planning and implementation of public health programs in a multi-sectoral in cooperation with government, UN agencies, NGOs, and other humanitarian and development partners.
- Proven ability to advance localization agenda closely working with forcibly displaced persons (FDP), community-based organizations.
- Experience in public health programming as well as understanding of health systems and health system building blocks.
- Experience with data collection and analysis in position(s) where the ability to draft clear, concise documentation was essential.
- Experience in public health emergency preparedness and response.
- Experience in humanitarian settings.
- Experience with coordination and stakeholder engagement to achieve public health goals.
- Experience with health information systems.
- Experience with the provision of quality-assured medicines and medical supplies.
Qualification Requirements
- Undergraduate degree; or Graduate degree; or Doctorate degree.
- Field(s) of Education: Medicine, Medical Science, Medical Doctor, Nursing, Public Health, Epidemiology, or other relevant field.
