Overview
Provide support for the project "Safe, climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable healthcare facilities" by assisting in capacity building, assessments, and the development and implementation of improvement plans for healthcare facilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in co-ordinating the building of a knowledge base and enhancing skills of health care workers through capacity building in the area of Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Facilities.
- Assist in prioritization of HCFs for detailed assessments and support a systematic approach to assessment implementation and the documenting and communication of assessment findings.
- Support the development and implementation of climate responsive improvement plans for selected HCFs, including undertaking procurement and contract management related tasks.
- Prepare a sustainability plan for HCF waste management, WASH, and Energy for selected HCFs.
- Support the integration of tools/dashboards to track progress on resilient and environmentally sustainable HCFs.
- Contribute to the preparation and implementation of annual results-based work plans and logical frameworks.
- Support monitoring, evaluation, and learning, including assisting in the development of any monitoring and evaluation mechanism required.
- Coordinate and actively collaborate with project officers and teams from aligned programmes.
- Align project activities to the Ministry’s Guidelines for Climate Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health Care Facilities (CRESHCF) as well as Fiji’s National Health Adaptation Plan.
- Support other climate change and health-related activities as agreed between WHO and MoHMS.
Required Experience
- At least five years of relevant work experience in Environmental Health or Public Health.
- Experience in the assessment of Health Care Facilities (HCF).
- Desirable: Experience in engineering design, procurement and quality assurance of infrastructure related projects at HCF level.
- Desirable: Experience in digital/web-based systems and survey tools.
- Desirable: A strong understanding of climate change and health risk pathways is a plus factor.
Qualifications
- Essential: University degree in Environmental Health, Public Health, public health or environmental engineering, health information systems, or any other related field.
- Desirable: Postgraduate qualification or Advanced degree (Master’s) in Environmental Health, Public Health, public health or environmental engineering, health information systems, or any other related field.
- Desirable: Additional qualifications or trainings in Water, Sanitation or Hygiene (WASH), Energy (Solarization), and Construction/Retrofitting for health systems and digital/web-based systems and survey tools are plus factors.
