WHO Public Health Officer Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs

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WHO Public Health Officer Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.

WHO Ethiopia looking for “Public Health Officer”.

Applicants with a University Degree may apply on or before 19th March, 2024.

The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution, which establishes the agency’s governing structure and principles, states its main objective as “the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health”.

WHO Public Health Officer Jobs 2024

The WHO has published a job vacancy announcement on 05th March, 2024 for qualified Ethiopians to fill in the vacant post of Public Health Officer to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

WHO Job Vacancy 2024:

Summary of Assigned Duties:

Coordinate the scaling up of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response through assessment, capacity building, as well as deployment/implementation of electronic data tools.
Contribute to the strengthening data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting for the country.
Conduct regular analysis of priority diseases to understand the epidemiology and burden of infectious diseases in the country.
Collaborate with and provide strategic coordination to partners to develop and implement disease surveillance and response plans of action and to monitor progress and level of implementation.
Lead and participate with relevant stakeholders to conduct comprehensive assessments of IHR core capacities and gaps to identify areas that need improvement, and to establish or reinforce coordination mechanisms for streamlining implementation of IHR, and to initiate support for building targeted improvements in IHR core capacities.
Secure information from a broad range of health sectors, analysing such and consolidating health data in trends and trends assessment, with particular attention to surveillance, monitoring and early warning.
Contribute to the enhancement of national capacities for investigation and risk assessment of public health hazards through the development and implementation of standards and tools
Conduct field investigation for outbreak verification, risk assessment and provide technical support for rapid public health response to public health emergencies emanating from known or unknown disease pathogens
Liaises with and utilizes partnerships in other UN Agencies, Donor, or research institutions in the surveillance and field epidemiology to position the technical area of work and implementation into Global, Regional and/or National policies.
Perform other related duties as assigned.

Position in Organization:

Position Title: Public Health Officer
Grade: NO-C
Contractual Arrangement: Temporary appointment under Staff Rule 420.4
Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days): 12 Months
Job Posting: Mar 5, 2024, 11:16:03 AM
Closing Date: Mar 19, 2024, 4:29:00 AM
Primary Location: Ethiopia-Addis Ababa
Organization: AF_ETH Ethiopia
Schedule: Full-time

Minimum Requirements:

Qualification:

University degree in medicine, public health, epidemiology, tropical medicine, or other related medical field from an accredited/recognized institute.
Post graduate Degree in Epidemiology, Public Health or related health field.

Experience:

At least a minimum of five years’ experience in disease surveillance, prevention and control, with some practical experience in disease prevention and control programs at subnational and national level. Proven experience and knowledge of implementing IDSR at country level. Practical working use of advanced statistical software packages (e.g., R, STATA, SAS, SPSS etc) for epidemiological analysis during emergencies will be an asset.
Experience in conducting disease surveillance, prevention and control in humanitarian settings. Relevant work experience in outbreaks and/or health emergency management. Related experience in development and implementation of strategies and action plans within WHO and/or UN agencies. Experience of working with event-based surveillance; good understanding in inter-agency collaboration or in WHO, UN Agencies or other international organizations, relevant non-governmental, health cluster partners or humanitarian organizations would be an asset.

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