Health Specialist, NO-3, Fixed Term Position, India, Lucknow, India, #00010684

UN Children's Fund - UNICEF

Staff Closes 01 Jun 2026 9 days left

Overview

The Health Specialist will provide technical leadership and management support to design, implement, and monitor evidence-based interventions that deliver impact at scale in Uttar Pradesh, India. The role involves strengthening partnerships, leveraging resources, and working collaboratively across UNICEF programme sectors to accelerate progress on child survival, growth, and wellbeing.


Key Responsibilities
  • Support to programme development and planning
  • Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
  • Technical and operational support to programme implementation
  • Networking and partnership building
  • Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
Required Experience

A minimum of 5 years of professional work experience in Public health, Nutrition, Public health and Nutrition planning and management, Maternal and Neonatal Health care, or Health emergency, and Humanitarian preparedness and Community health.

Qualifications

Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in one of the following fields is required: Public health, Nutrition, Pediatric health, Family health, Health research, Global health, International health, Health Policy and or Health management, Environmental health sciences, Biostatistics, Socio-medical, Epidemiology or another relevant technical field.

Other Details
Languages Required
Fluency in English is required.
Languages Preferred
Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset. Working knowledge of Hindi is desirable.
Contract Duration
Two (2) years fixed-term contract, with the possibility of extension
Work Modality
Not specified
Remuneration
Not specified
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