Overview
Provide technical leadership and hands-on support to governments, UNICEF Country Offices, and partners to strengthen preparedness, response, and recovery for all-hazard health emergencies, while ensuring continuity of essential health services.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver technical advisory support on health emergency preparedness and response, including National Action Plans for Health Security, emergency preparedness planning, and Pandemic Fund–supported programming.
- Undertake capacity development, strengthening systems, institutions, and workforce readiness at country and regional levels.
- Contribute to strategic planning and coordination.
- Support multi-sectoral and inter-agency collaboration.
- Engage in surge deployments during emergencies as required.
- Through knowledge management, strategic communications, and partnerships, help position UNICEF as a trusted leader in health emergency preparedness and response globally.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible professional experience at the international level in coordinating health emergency preparedness and response, public health emergencies, or humanitarian health programming.
- Experience in fragile, conflict-affected, or high-risk settings.
- Experience in developing countries, including familiarity with managing and delivering health or public health emergency responses.
- Training in emergency response management.
- Familiarity with children’s rights in the context of health emergency preparedness and response.
- Experience working with the United Nations system and with international non-governmental humanitarian organizations.
Qualifications
• Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in public health, medicine, global or international health, health research, health policy and/or management, environmental health services, biostatistics, epidemiology, disaster management, international development, public policy, or social policy.
