Overview
This position is intended to lead emergency health response programmes, focusing on secondary care activities and outbreak preparedness. The incumbent will also act as Officer-in-Charge when the Health Manager is on leave.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to emergency health analysis with a focus on secondary care to define needs, map partner efforts, and identify gaps.
- Support the implementation of the Emergency Response and Preparedness Plan.
- Define and update UNICEF health response and recovery plans, including contingency plans for hazards and disease outbreaks.
- Provide technical guidance on public health emergencies, including planning and responding to specific threats.
- Monitor surveillance and disease prevention and control efforts for epidemic-prone diseases in coordination with partners.
- Manage grants associated with secondary care support, ensuring timely rollout and reporting.
- Provide technical support to develop, adapt, and share relevant standards, protocols, guidelines, and training materials.
- Plan and participate in field monitoring missions and track action points.
- Oversee emergency health supply chain, including pre-positioning of stocks and ensuring responsive release strategies.
- Provide inputs to UNICEF information products related to the response, including situation reports.
- Contribute to the development of funding appeals, donor reports, and project proposals.
- Represent UNICEF in the health cluster and other relevant coordination meetings.
- Provide OIC Manager support as required.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible experience in public health, with field experience in responding to health emergencies.
- This includes coordination and partnerships, risk assessments, planning, programming, implementation monitoring and evaluation of health programmes.
- Experience with infectious disease control response highly preferred.
- Experience with UNICEF and other UN agencies, and/or INGOs in emergency settings essential.
- Work experience in a district/field health system is a strong advantage.
Qualifications
- An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: public health/nutrition, pediatric health, family health, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or management, environmental health sciences, biostatistics, socio-medical, health education, epidemiology or another relevant technical field.
- A bachelor’s degree in a health-related discipline (Medical Doctor, Nursing or other relevant health discipline preferred) with an additional 2 years of experience.
