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UNICEF Health Specialist Jobs 2024 – Zambia NGO Jobs.
UNICEF Zambia programme looking for “Health Specialist”.
Applicants with an Advanced University Degree may apply on or before 23rd April, 2024.
UNICEF originally called the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children’s Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. The agency is among the most widespread and recognizable social welfare organizations in the world, with a presence in 192 countries and territories. UNICEF’s activities include providing immunizations and disease prevention, administering treatment for children and mothers with HIV, enhancing childhood and maternal nutrition, improving sanitation, promoting education, and providing emergency relief in response to disasters.
UNICEF Health Specialist Jobs 2024
The UNICEF has published a job vacancy announcement on 18th April, 2024 for qualified Zambia’s to fill in the vacant post of Health Specialist to be based in Lusaka, Zambia.
UNICEF Job Vacancy 2024
Key Function, Accountabilities, and related duties/ tasks:
- Support and contribute to the preparation, design and updating of the on-going cholera situation analysis (e.g., weekly situation reports) to establish a strategic plan for development, design, and management of health-related interventions. Keep abreast of recent trends to enhance programme management, efficiency, and delivery.
- Participate in strategic programme discussions on the planning and management of health sector response to cholera outbreak, , noting that children are disproportionately affected. Formulate, design, and prepare health sector response and accompanying programme proposals and reports, ensuring alignment with the Government response and health sector priorities and plans.
- Work closely and collaboratively with colleagues and partners to discuss strategies and methodologies, and to determine priorities and competencies to ensure the achievement of concrete results.
- Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of programming processes to ensure integration, coherent linkages, and harmonization of programmes/projects with other UNICEF sectors (WASH, SBC, and Nutrition) and achievement of results as planned and allocated.
- Plan and/or collaborate with internal and external partners to establish monitoring benchmarks, performance indicators, and other indicators and measurements to assess and strengthen performance accountability, coherence, and delivery of concrete and sustainable results on cholera outbreak response.
- Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises to actively monitor cholera outbreak response interventions and activities through field visits, surveys and/or exchange of information with partners/stakeholders to assess progress, identify bottlenecks, potential problems and take timely decisions to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant officials for timely resolution.
- Monitor and verify the optimum and appropriate use of resources (financial, administrative, and other assets) confirming compliance with organizational rules, regulations/procedures and donor commitments, standards of accountability and integrity, ensuring timely reporting and liquidation of resources.
- Prepare regular and mandated programme/project reports, including situation reports, for management, donors, and partners to keep them informed of programme progress.
Position in Organization:
- Position: Health Specialist
- Job no: 571242
- Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
- Duty Station: Lusaka
- Level: NO-3
- Location: Zambia
- Categories: Health
Minimum Requirments:
Education:
- An Advanced University Degree in 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 other health related science is required.
Experience:
- A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in public health/nutrition planning and management and/or in relevant areas of maternal and neonatal health care, health emergency/humanitarian preparedness, at the international level some of which preferably in a developing country is required.
- Relevant experience in health/nutrition program/project development and management in any UN system agency or organization is an asset.
Language Skills:
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language is an asset.
How to Apply UNICEF Health Specialist Jobs 2024
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
Then to apply, go to this link https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/571242
The Closing Date: 23rd April, 2024.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
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