Health Officer (Emergency), NOB, Temporary Appointment (364 days), Kabul, Afghanistan, #126906

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each little one, in every single place, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each little one, Well being!

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How are you going to make a distinction?

The Well being Officer reviews to the Senior Well being Specialist (Emergency) (Degree 4) for steerage and normal supervision. The Well being Officer helps the event and preparation of the well being programme and is chargeable for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of well being emergency preparedness and response sector of the well being programme inside the nation programme. The Well being Officer offers technical steerage and administration help all through the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable outcomes based on plans, allocation, outcomes based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), organizational Strategic Plans and objectives, requirements of efficiency, and accountability framework. The technical steerage is supplied with reference to (i) The Core Commitments for Youngsters in Humanitarian Motion (ii) Well being System Strengthening strategy and (iii) The Sendai Framework.

Key operate, accountabilities and associated duties/duties

Well being Emergency Preparedness

1. Assist and contribute to the preparation, design and updating of assorted nationwide stage emergency / contingency plans, scenario evaluation for the well being sector. Preserve abreast of growth developments to boost programme administration, effectivity and supply.
2. Take part in strategic programme discussions on the planning of well being programmes. Formulate, design and put together a sector of the well being programme proposal, making certain alignment with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, the Nation Programme, in addition to coherence/integration with the Well being Cluster, regional methods, and nationwide priorities, plans and competencies.
3. Technical overview of the illness surveillance reviews and supply alerts to allow motion.
4. Plan and follow-up with pre-positioning of emergency associated provides and its distribution.
5. Along with programme sections and zonal places of work, offers a lead in planning, implementation and monitoring of cellular well being and vitamin groups.

Well being Emergency Response

1. Take part in wants evaluation in coordination with the programme part and zonal places of work, to find out priorities and acceptable interventions by UNICEF.
2. Take part and symbolize UNICEF in emergency associated conferences and contribute to assessing the disaster and humanitarian scenario within the nation with particular regard to the survival, safety and wellbeing of youngsters, adolescents and ladies.
3. Help the Senior Well being Specialist (Emergency) in oversight of the operations and program administration to make sure that the funding, funds, administration, reporting, and discipline presence coordination are managed effectively and successfully with clear accountabilities.

Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes

1. Plan and/or collaborate with inside and exterior companions to realize the monitoring benchmarks, efficiency indicators, and different UNICEF/UN system indicators and measurements to evaluate and strengthen efficiency accountability, coherence and supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes for the assigned sector in well being programmes.
2. Take part in monitoring and analysis workouts, programme opinions and sectoral opinions to evaluate progress and to find out required motion/interventions to realize outcomes.
3. Contribute in preparation of donor proposals and common and mandated programme / venture reviews to stakeholders like administration, donors and companions to maintain them knowledgeable of the programme progress. Determine gaps, strengths and/or weaknesses in programme administration, establish classes discovered and use information gained for growth planning and well timed intervention to realize objectives.
4. Actively monitor programmes/tasks via discipline visits, surveys and/or alternate of data with companions/stakeholders to evaluate progress, establish bottlenecks, potential issues and take well timed choices to resolve points and/or discuss with related officers for well timed decision.
5. Monitor and confirm the optimum and acceptable use of sectoral programme assets (monetary, administrative and different belongings) confirming compliance with organizational guidelines, laws/procedures and donor commitments, requirements of accountability and integrity, making certain well timed reporting and liquidation of assets.
6. Construct and maintain efficient shut working partnerships with well being sector counterparts, nationwide stakeholders, in addition to allies, donors, and academia. Via lively networking, advocacy and efficient communication, construct capability and alternate information and experience to facilitate the achievement of programme objectives on little one rights, social justice and fairness.

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have…

• A college diploma in one of many following fields is required: public well being/vitamin, pediatric well being, household well being, well being analysis, international/worldwide well being, well being coverage and/or administration, environmental well being sciences, biostatistics, socio-medical, well being schooling, epidemiology, or one other related technical discipline.

• A minimal of two years {of professional} expertise in well being emergency/humanitarian preparedness and response is required.

• Growing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.

• Related expertise in a UN system company or group is taken into account as an asset.

• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Baby, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every part we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness(3)Drive to realize outcomes for impression(4)Innovates and embraces change(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity(6)Thinks and acts strategically(7)Works collaboratively with others.

Through the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. 

Remarks:

UNICEF’s lively dedication in direction of range and inclusion is important to ship one of the best outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates are inspired to use.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which will probably be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities workers which are thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or mandatory inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.