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

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

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, in every single place, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each youngster, Well being!

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How are you going to make a distinction?

The Well being Officer experiences to the Senior Well being Specialist (Emergency) (Stage 4) for steering and basic supervision. The Well being Officer helps the event and preparation of the well being programme and is answerable for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of well being emergency preparedness and response sector of the well being programme throughout the nation programme. The Well being Officer offers technical steering 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 steering is supplied with reference to (i) The Core Commitments for Kids in Humanitarian Motion (ii) Well being System Strengthening method and (iii) The Sendai Framework.

Key operate, accountabilities and associated duties/duties

Well being Emergency Preparedness

1. Help and contribute to the preparation, design and updating of assorted nationwide degree emergency / contingency plans, scenario evaluation for the well being sector. Hold abreast of improvement traits 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 evaluation of the illness surveillance experiences 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 workplaces, offers a lead in planning, implementation and monitoring of cellular well being and diet groups.

Well being Emergency Response

1. Take part in wants evaluation in coordination with the programme part and zonal workplaces, to find out priorities and applicable interventions by UNICEF.
2. Take part and signify 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 girls.
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 workout routines, 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 / undertaking experiences to stakeholders like administration, donors and companions to maintain them knowledgeable of the programme progress. Establish gaps, strengths and/or weaknesses in programme administration, establish classes realized and use information gained for improvement planning and well timed intervention to realize objectives.
4. Actively monitor programmes/tasks by means of discipline visits, surveys and/or alternate of data with companions/stakeholders to evaluate progress, establish bottlenecks, potential issues and take well timed selections to resolve points and/or discuss with related officers for well timed decision.
5. Monitor and confirm the optimum and applicable use of sectoral programme sources (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 sources.
6. Construct and maintain efficient shut working partnerships with well being sector counterparts, nationwide stakeholders, in addition to allies, donors, and academia. By way of lively networking, advocacy and efficient communication, construct capability and alternate information and experience to facilitate the achievement of programme objectives on youngster rights, social justice and fairness.

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have…

• A college diploma in one of many following fields is required: public well being/diet, pediatric well being, household well being, well being analysis, world/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.

• Creating 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 Youngster, you reveal…

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 publish 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.

Throughout 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 world workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of 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 vital to ship the most effective outcomes for youngsters. 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 likely be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities staff which can be thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or vital inoculation necessities should not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any cause.

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