Deadline: 06 October, 2021
Location: Khartoum, Sudan
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is recruiting to fill the role of Emergency Health Officer.
Across 190 countries and territories, UNICEF works for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate with the health team to provide timely and quality sectoral analysis, and contribute to the provision of evidence-based input for the preparation of Sudan’s humanitarian needs overview and the development of Sudan’s humanitarian response plans and their periodic updates through the health cluster
- Ensure technical support is provided to government and non-governmental organisations at all stages of the humanitarian planning cycle, including capacity building support for UNICEF health response
- Support regular strategic monitoring of the humanitarian response for health, including for Covid-19, through collaboration with field teams
- Ensure key emergency response plans for health
- Ensure effective partnership and collaboration are achieved and maintained, including timely and comprehensive emergency health response
- Ensure all required emergency reports, updates and briefs including the quarterly SITREP are timely prepared in coordination with the health team and in compliance with established guidelines and procedures
- Coordinate with field offices and health subunits to ensure that emergency preparedness is maintained and that supplies are pre-positioned ahead of rainy season and other disruptive major natural and man-made events
- In collaboration with other colleagues, establish effective information and reporting systems for emergency health response with segregated data of vulnerable population
- Undertake field visits to monitor and support UNICEF emergency response for health and provide on-site capacity building and mentoring to field teams, government and NGO partners
- Participate in health sector coordination meetings and refugee coordination forums, ensuring that UNICEF’s contributions are fully reflected and action points are implemented to high standards within given timelines
- In collaboration with field teams and WHO, receive and monitor periodic epidemiological data, analyse and advise when trends are above the normal threshold
- Contribute to timely submission of concept notes and proposals for emergency specific proposals, including, but not limited to, SHF and CERF
- Maintain close working relationships with external counterparts, including those of the UN and national partners, in order to improve the ability to collect and disseminate relevant data, exchange information on emergency response
- Ensure exchange of knowledge, information, experience and lessons learnt
- Ensure other assigned duties and responsibilities are effectively accomplished
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Health, Development, Social Sciences or a related technical field
- Two years, minimum, of experience in handling health programmes
- Three years, minimum, of experience in public health
- Fluency in English and Arabic
- Good communication and advocacy skills and ability to work in a multicultural environment with the skills of developing good peer relationships
- Analytical, monitoring, decision-making and teamwork skills
- Computer skills
- Nationality of Sudan
To apply and for more information, click here.
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